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A 69-year-old Asian senior was reportedly pistol-whipped and robbed of his high-end watch in Daly City, California, last week. The incident, which was captured by a home security camera, occurred in the 1300 block of Skyline Drive at around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, according to Bay City News. The suspect, who was wearing a hoodie, can also be seen pistol-whipping and threatening to shoot the victim.

It’s true that US voters dislike Democrats and Republicans. But Americans dislike each other even more, and disagree fiercely about what the alternative should be.

Independent presidential candidates have often had an impact under circumstances similar to 2024. But the latest effort, unfurled this week, looks pretty feeble.

The new party is so far is made up of former Republicans, Democrats and independents.

An Australian mining company recovered a 170-carat pink diamond while searching for underground deposits known as kimberlite pipes.

The two-year UpTogether guaranteed basic income pilot will invest about $5 million in 1,000 San Antonians over 25 months.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang believes that actor Matthew McConaughey could potentially get the United States out of its current “mess” if he runs for president in 2024. Speaking with comedian guest Shane Gillis while recording an episode of Yang’s podcast “Forward with Andrew Yang” on Monday, the 47-year-old businessman-turned-political candidate opened up about the state of the country’s two political parties. During the segment of the podcast episode that asked, “Do voters want an authentic president?,” Yang, who joined CNN as a political commentator in 2020, spoke about the Democratic Party, describing it as a group that expects people to follow rules and “act a certain way.”

A former lawmaker in Oregon is aiming to shake up state politics by running as an unaffiliated candidate for governor.

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, reflecting price rises not seen in the U.S. since 1981.

The former political candidate wanted to make a point about national unity, but was promptly schooled in U.S. history on Twitter.

In a line that wrapped past the block, hundreds of New Yorkers waited anxiously to get their hands on canisters of pepper spray last weekend. Michelle Alyssa Tran, the founder of “Soar Over Hate,” a New York City-based nonprofit committed to combating anti-Asian hate, tweeted on Sunday a video of the organization’s pepper spray giveaway at “Yu & Me Books” located in Chinatown. As seen in the video, hundreds of people, mainly Asian women, waited in a line that wrapped past the block.

President Joe Biden often cites the critical role that South Carolina played when he won the Democratic nomination in 2020.

Former aides to Sen. Joe Manchin who are now lobbyists are scoring big clients as their ex-boss battles President Biden's agenda

Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital have announced a settlement with 79 women who say they were sexually abused by former gynecologist Robert Hadden.

Solomon Islands police have found three bodies in a burned-out building and arrested more than 100 people in this week’s violence sparked by concerns about the Pacific nation’s increasing links with China.

Yang said the process has created incentives for catering to the most partisan constituents instead of the majority.

The City Council could vote as soon as Wednesday on a plan that would provide as many as 5,000 households with $500 a month.

The entrepreneur turned politician makes the case for his new project, the Forward Party.

CNNAndrew Yang might be pitching himself as the guy to head up a new, more “inclusive” third party, but Jim Acosta had some questions about the entrepreneur-turned-politician’s methods during a CNN interview on Saturday afternoon. Specifically, he asked Yang to answer for his decision to appear on Tucker Carlson Today.“Tucker Carlson... I mean, let’s just say he’s a bad person,” Acosta told Yang. “And he represents so much of what is wrong in television news these days. You know this all too wel

Yang said he thinks he can make a bigger difference outside the constraints of a political party.

Pittsburgh decided it wants more darkness, but the city isn't turning out the lights — it's just turning them down. The City Council voted last month to reduce Pittsburgh's light pollution and become "dark sky compliant," based on standards outlined by the International Dark-Sky Association, through the use of more motion-sensor lighting, lower temperature bulbs, and light shielding around town.

When Sarah Sallon first thought of cultivating 2,000-year-old date palm seeds from a Roman-era fortress towering above the Dead Sea, she received a less than encouraging response. But Sallon's bet that the Dead Sea's unique, bone-dry environment could enable the seeds from the Masada fortress to flourish has been proven right.

Visitors to Dubai's Expo 2020 are discovering a "surreal" water feature that bathes attendees in colourful waterfalls. The Expo - delayed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic - opened on Friday (October 1).

Andrew Yang announced on Monday that he changed his voter registration from "Democrat" to "Independent," calling the move a "strangely emotional experience."What he's saying: While Yang said he has identified as a Democrat for years and has "dozens of friends and confidantes who are entrenched in the Democratic Party," he is "confident that no longer being a Democrat is the right thing."Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free."My goal is to do as much as I can

The capriciousness of ranked choice voting is revealed in NYC

The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials abruptly retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system.

The 25-year-old victim told police he was shot while northbound on the FDR Drive near 23rd Street at around 11:20 p.m.

The field was too big, the campaigning was too weird, and none of the candidates took the full measure of the city that they hoped to govern.

The votes released on Tuesday night were just the first-choice votes for ballots cast in-person during early voting and on primary day.

The votes released on Tuesday night were just the first-choice votes for ballots cast in-person during early voting and on primary day.

The winning Democratic candidate is likely to become the city's next mayor in a November vote.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams took the lead in New York City's mayoral primary race Tuesday while former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang conceded.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams took the lead in New York City's mayoral primary race Tuesday while former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang conceded.

NYC mayoral primary: Democrat Eric Adams holds initial lead, Andrew Yang concedes

Yang touted that he had more individual donors than any other campaign and talked about rising anti-Asian hate, NBC New York reports.

The votes released on Tuesday night were just the first-choice votes for ballots cast in-person during early voting and on primary day.

Unofficial results showing only in-person votes left Yang in fourth place, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams holding a commanding lead.

During an interview with Politico magazine in Brooklyn, de Blasio slammed the mayoral candidates as "petty" and "lacking in a compelling vision."

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams appears to have taken a fragile lead in New York City’s crowded Democratic mayoral primary.

A tightly contested race among Democrats in New York City will be decided as voters head to the polls Tuesday. Results may not be announced for weeks.

Yang faced backlash last week over comments he made on mentally ill and homeless people during the NYC mayoral debate.

Timothy A Clary/GettyNew York has not seen a Democratic primary for mayor this volatile and wide open in decades and, if the polls hold, the city’s next mayor could well be a former cop and Republican who’s poised to push back against the rising left and who’s dabbled in racial demagoguery in the race’s closing days.Eight years ago, Bill de Blasio emerged from a crowded field to lock down the race with weeks to go, dominating his opponents in the polls during the campaign’s final days. Once a lo

Yang and Garcia campaign together, marking the first time a the top-tier candidate publicly laid out a strategy for supporters for how to use New York City's ranked-choice voting system.

This year, overall super PAC spending in the mayoral race has hit more than $24 million, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.

Early voting is already underway.

The race to replace New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will cross a key threshold on Tuesday as Democrats and Republicans host their primary elections.

The 42-year-old volunteer is in stable condition. Fellow NYC mayoral candidates, including Andrew Yang, offered their support.

Five-hundred-dollar payments were recently sent out to 100 residents in the small towns, rural corners and city blocks of Ulster County in upstate New York.

Voters will likely pick the next mayor of New York City in a Democratic primary next week.

"We need to get them off of our streets and our subways into a better environment," Yang added. His NYC mayoral debate comments drew swift backlash.

The final debate, which took place in the iconic NYC studio that's home to "Saturday Night Live," covered topics such as policing, mental health and homelessness.

The final debate, which took place in the iconic NYC studio that's home to "Saturday Night Live," covered topics such as policing, mental health and homelessness.

Linn County JailAlexander Jackson, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, called police Tuesday morning in a panic, claiming a masked intruder had shot him and his father inside their home.When Cedar Rapid officers arrived at the scene, they found Jackson’s parents and his 19-year-old sister—a high-achieving student who introduced then-presidential candidate Andrew Yang during his 2019 visit to Iowa—fatally shot in different rooms of the expansive house. Jackson had suffered a gunshot wound t

Some of the Democrats hoping to become New York’s next mayor are calling for more policing. So far, they’ve been leading in the polls.

Wall Street has poured over $9 million into groups backing candidates in the New York mayoral race, with Eric Adams and Andrew Yang getting the biggest support.

A tourist from Texas allegedly punched a man in Florida’s Okaloosa County after his children pet the tourist's dog. The incident: Wade Anton, a 54-year-old tourist from Forney, Texas, reportedly made racist comments toward a woman and her children of Asian descent at around 4:15 p.m. at Okaloosa Island's John Beasley Park on Thursday, telling them to "go back where they came from," according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. Anton said he asked the children to stop petting his dog, but they ignored him, reported WEAR-TV.

With COVID on the decline, New York Voters Want To Know What Mayoral Candidates Will Do About Rising Crime

The Democratic primary race for New York City mayor is nearing the finish line with a surge in shootings pushing public safety to the top of some voters' concerns.

Fear of crime is back as a political issue in New York City. The violence is still well short of the historic highs of the 1990s, or even in the New York of the early 2000s. “No one is coming to New York, in our multibillion-dollar tourism industry, if you have 3-year-old children shot in Times Square,” Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at a recent debate, referring to a May 8 shooting in which a 4-year-old girl and two adult women were wounded by stray bullets.

From Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Al Franken and Donald Trump, there’s a rich history of celebrities trying out new careers in politics.

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is in the hospital Friday with an apparent kidney stone.

Police said Brandon Elliot, 38, is the man seen on surveillance video kicking and stomping the woman near Times Square on Monday. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack “absolutely disgusting and outrageous” and said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that witnesses didn’t help the woman. Two lobby workers, described by their union as doormen, were seen on video witnessing the attack but failing to help Kari. This year in New York City, there have been 33 hate crimes with an Asian victim as of Sunday, police said. Joo Han, the deputy director of the Asian American Federation, called the plainclothes patrols a “knee-jerk response” that ignored misgivings she said many people in Asian communities have about law enforcement.

On Friday, in the same neighborhood as Monday's attack, a 65-year-old Asian American woman was accosted by a man waving an unknown object and shouting anti-Asian insults. He is not suspected in Monday's attack. Andrew Cuomo called Monday's attack “horrifying and repugnant" and he ordered a state police hate crimes task force to offer its assistance to the NYPD. The neighborhood where Monday's attack occurred, Hell's Kitchen, is predominantly white, with an Asian population of less than 20%, according to city demographic data. Shea called Monday's attack “disgusting," telling TV station NY1: “I don’t know who attacks a 65-year-old woman and leaves her on the street like that."

The Oakland Resilient Families program has so far raised $6.75 million from private donors including Blue Meridian Partners, a national philanthropy group. “Direct investment in the community in response to systemic injustices isn't new.”The idea of a guaranteed income dates to the 18th century. “The fact that mayors are piloting (guaranteed income programs), using political capital to raise capital to allow their constituents to have basic necessities, is a policy failure," Tubbs said. “It's an admission that we need to do more.”It's unclear what a national guaranteed income program would look like. AdA form of guaranteed income could take effect for many parents this year as part of the latest federal stimulus package.

It's also spurring her and other Asian Americans to push for greater political influence in Washington and other power centers. President Joe Biden and his aides have been repeatedly pressed to include Asian Americans in his Cabinet. Ad“I think symbolism and representation matters, but only up to a point,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. “Those things all contribute to lower rates of political participation among Asian Americans, but people — mistakenly, I think — assume that Asian Americans are somehow less interested in U.S. civic life.”AdThat's evolving. “Asian Americans didn't necessarily grow up with that vocabulary of advocacy and how to fight for ourselves," Meng said.

It would also create a state agency to enforce consumer privacy protections. “The amount of data we’re giving up is unprecedented in human history,” says Yang, who lives in New York but is helping lead the campaign for a data privacy initiative on California’s Nov. 3 ballot. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 would expand the rights Californians were given to their personal data in a groundbreaking law approved two years ago, which took effect in January. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 was intended to give residents more control over their personal information collected online. “As soon as other states see that Californians have these data and privacy rights, they’re going to want the same thing.”

Mayors in at least 25 cities — from Los Angeles to Paterson, New Jersey — have pledged to support such programs as part of the group Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. They are led by Michael Tubbs, the 30-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, who launched one of the country's first guaranteed income programs last year with the help of private donations from Silicon Valley. The idea of guaranteed income programs has been around for decades, but it got a lot of attention in the U.S. as the centerpiece of Andrew Yang's failed bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “We understand that a guaranteed income is not a panacea for everything (but) is a powerful tool that provides a floor for everyone." But some of the other programs outlined Wednesday by mayors at a news conference would rely on a mix of public and private money.

In this Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Robert Hadden appears in Manhattan Supreme Court in New York. Hadden, a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing more than two dozen patients, including children and the wife of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, is now facing federal charges. (Alec Tabak via AP)

In this Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Robert Hadden appears in Manhattan Supreme Court in New York. Hadden, a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing more than two dozen patients, including children and the wife of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, is now facing federal charges. Prosecutors described the doctor, Robert A. Hadden, 62, as a predator in a white coat, accusing him of singling out young and unsuspecting victims, including a young girl hed delivered at birth. The federal charges will be the second time Hadden is prosecuted over alleged abuse of patients. He used the cover of conducting medical examinations to engage in sexual abuse that he passed off as normal and medically necessary, Strauss said.

CHICAGO (AP) – Democrat Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur who created buzz for his presidential campaign by championing a universal basic income that would give every American adult $1,000 per month, suspended his 2020 bid on Tuesday. The graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School gave campaign speeches full of statistics and studies that often resembled an economics seminar. His supporters, known as the Yang Gang, donned blue hats and pins with the word MATH - short for his slogan Make America Think Harder. Yang promoted his signature issue of universal basic income, which he dubbed the “freedom dividend,” by announcing during a debate that he would choose individuals to receive the monthly $1,000 checks. Yang spent most of January in the leadoff caucus state, including a 17-day bus tour during which he told voters his finish in Iowa would “shock the world.”

For some candidates, surrogates help keep their hands clean of controversy by acting as an attack dog. He called out her rivals by name during a recent campaign swing through Iowa, saying neither Sanders nor Joe Biden are as widely acceptable to Democrats. Surrogates also offer reassurance to voters that the candidate understands and will pay attention to local issues. Jane O'Meara Sanders will campaign on behalf of her husband next weekend in Nevada while he is likely stuck in Washington. Surrogates can also bring a dash of star power to the campaign trail to keep voters engaged.

DAVENPORT, IA – On a recent swing through Iowa, Andrew Yang was moving through his stump speech, a string of stories and statistics that can sound like an economics seminar. While other second-tier candidates in the race are planning to use money and advertising to make an end-run around those early voting states, Yang says he's largely sticking to the traditional path. A strong showing there, Yang believes, will help propel him through the other early voting states, Nevada and New Hampshire, and into the Super Tuesday contests on March 3. The 62-year-old said he has narrowed his choices to Yang, Sanders and Buttigieg. “He’s made me more confused.”___Catch up on the 2020 election campaign with AP experts on our weekly politics podcast, “Ground Game.”