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Piedmont resident robbed after returning home from bank

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

PIEDMONT – A Piedmont resident was robbed after returning home from a bank Wednesday afternoon, according to police.The incident happened around 5 p.m. in the area of Rose and Echo avenues, the Piedmont Police Department said in a community alert. Two masked and hooded suspects walked up to the victim’s car, broke out a window and grabbed her purse.Police said the victim struggled with the suspects and suffered minor injuries as a result of the broken glass.The suspects drove away in a silver-colored BMW and were last seen heading toward Piedmont Avenue.The victim told police she believed the suspects followed her home from a bank in Oakland.Anyone with information related to the case can contact the police department at 510-420-3000.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Stolen car strikes, kills bicyclist in Oakland; driver flees scene, remains at large Crime and Public Safety | Pamela Price defends embattled second-in-command, calls report about him ...

Fired employee sues San Jose tech company for anti-Asian bias

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) – A San Jose tech company is facing a $20 million discrimination lawsuit. A former employee claims he was fired from Lumentum for pointing out biases against Asians.Andre Wong worked for Lumentum for 20 years. But he says his long career ended with termination after he brought up concerns of anti-Asian bias. Now, he wants to make sure more people are aware of the issue in hopes of preventing it.“I felt frustrated,” he said. “I felt like I was banging my head against the wall.” More Bay Area tech layoffs on the way That’s how Wong described what it felt like to watch people he trained rise to leadership positions at the tech firm. Wong created a facial recognition product that brought in nearly $1 billion in revenue. Still, he says he was overlooked for every promotion.“As that product line became more and more successful I found myself reporting to this revolving door of white managers who I had to train and introduce to my contacts,” he told KRON4.In 2021,...

Espinoza propels Earthquakes to 2-0 victory over Sounders

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cristian Espinoza scored on a first-half penalty kick and assisted on a second-half goal by Miguel Trauco to lead the San Jose Earthquakes to a 2-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday night.Espinoza picked up his 11th goal of the season, scoring after a foul in the 19th minute to give the Earthquakes (8-7-8) the lead.Espinoza had an assist on Miguel Trauco’s insurance goal in the 65th minute. It was Trauco’s third netter this season.JT Marcinkowski finished with two saves to earn the clean sheet for San Jose.Stefan Cleveland made his second start of the season for the Sounders (10-8-5), after starting goalkeeper Stefan Frei entered concussion protocol in the Sounders’ last match. Cleveland had one save.Seattle returns home to host FC Dallas on Saturday. San Jose is idle.____AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportSource

Vite, Cordova send Whitecaps to 2-1 victory over Austin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Pedro Vite scored in the first minute and Sergio Córdova accounted for the only goal of the second half to lead the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 2-1 victory over Austin FC on Wednesday night. Córdova used a pass from Ryan Gauld in the 72nd minute to score the winner for the Whitecaps (7-7-7). It was his first goal this season for Vancouver after scoring nine times for Real Salt Lake last season.Vite used an assist from Brian White to score for a fourth time this season and give Vancouver the lead. Rodney Redes notched his first career goal for Austin (8-9-5), scoring the equalizer unassisted two minutes into the second half.Yohei Takaoka finished with one save for the Whitecaps. Brad Stuver had two saves for Austin.Austin returns home to host Sporting Kansas City on Saturday. Vancouver will host the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday.____AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportSource

Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

The Black Lives Matter movement hits a milestone on Thursday, marking 10 years since its 2013 founding in response to the acquittal of the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.Gunned down in a Florida gated community where his father lived in 2012, Martin was one of the earliest symbols of a movement that now wields influence in politics, law enforcement and broader conversations about racial progress in and outside the U.S.BLM activists and organizations plan to mark a decade of the movement with in-person and virtual events. Calls to action include a renewed push to defund police departments and reinvest in Black communities that have suffered disproportionately from police brutality, unequal treatment in criminal justice systems and mass incarceration.In the wake of Supreme Court decisions that stymied relief from student loan debt held disproportionately by Black borrowers and banned affirmative action in higher education, the need for BLM’s existence couldnR...

Escenas de desesperación: más de 3,1 millones de personas desplazadas por la guerra en Sudán

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

(CNN) — Más de 3,1 millones de personas se han visto obligadas a huir de sus hogares en medio de una situación humanitaria cada vez más desesperada en un Sudán desgarrado por la guerra.Los grupos de derechos humanos alertan sobre la violencia étnica generalizada, los ataques a civiles y la violencia sexual rampante contra mujeres y niñas, mientras las facciones enfrentadas: las Fuerzas Armadas de Sudán (SAF) y las Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido (RSF), siguen luchando por el control del país del noreste de África.Matar, aterrorizar, expulsar: testimonios detallan las atrocidades cometidas por una milicia respaldada por Wagner en SudánLa Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (IOM, por sus siglas en inglés) informó este miércoles que en Sudán hay más de 2,4 millones de desplazados internos, mientras que 737.801 personas han cruzado la frontera con los países vecinos.La cifra de civiles sigue aumentando, según el último informe de la Oficina de Asuntos Humanitarios de la ONU (...

¿Furioso Twitter? Threads arrasa con récord histórico de descargas en su primera semana

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

NUEVA YORK – La nueva red social de microblogging de Meta, Threads, arrasa en su primera semana de vida convirtiéndose en la plataforma de más rápido crecimiento en la historia al superar los 100 millones de usuarios y deja claro que es una verdadera amenaza para Twitter.El miércoles pasado, tras las primeras 2 horas de su lanzamiento, Threads sumó 2 millones de usuarios, a las 4 horas alcanzó los 5 millones, a las 7 horas dobló esa cifra y a los 5 días ya tenía 100 millones de inscritios, sobrepasando así el récord de ChatGPT, pues el chatbot de OpenAI había necesitado 2 meses para alcanzar esa marca.Al final del martes, antes de cumplirse 7 días de vida, la página Quiverquant.com daba a Threads 107 millones de usuarios. Threads alcanza 70 millones de usuarios tras solo un día en el mercado CNBC: no es solo Threads. Mark Zuckerberg tiene una larga historia de aplicaciones y funciones que ha imitado “Eso es principalme...

For Cuban asylum seekers, options dwindle after Serbia slaps restrictions on visas to curb migration

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Fernando Almeyda Rodriguez and Remy Hernandez are two friends from Cuba, bound by a joint struggle for democracy in their country. But that comes at a price.The two men — Rodriguez is 31 and Hernandez 27 — were forced to flee Cuba in the aftermath of mass protests in 2021 to avoid persecution for their activism. An unlikely migration route brought them to Serbia — on the Balkan peninsula, at Europe’s southeastern edge — where they sought political asylum. Rodriguez and Hernandez chose Serbia because it was among the few countries in the world that did not require entry visas for Cubans. But Belgrade has since revoked the open travel regime, closing down a passage into Europe used by fleeing Cubans for decades.Serbia made the decision under pressure from the European Union, which it wants to join. Belgrade was also forced to impose visas for the citizens of countries such as Burundi, India or Tunisia which have become a source of migration into the 27-na...

Former teen performers accuse an agent of sexual assault. They’re hoping it’s Japan’s #MeToo moment

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuya Nakamura says he was 15 when one of the most powerful men in Japanese entertainment history forced him to have sex while he was part of a troupe of backup dancers managed by the legendary talent agent.At least a dozen other men have come forward this year to say they were sexually assaulted as teenagers by boy band impresario Johnny Kitagawa, who died in 2019, beginning with three who spoke anonymously to the BBC for a documentary broadcast in March. The story has all the elements of a major #MeToo reckoning, but in Japan, response has been muted.While opposition politicians set up a committee in parliament to investigate, and the talent agency Kitagawa founded promised to do the same and offered a brief apology, the news still rarely makes the front pages or lead television news broadcasts.Kitagawa shrugged off similar allegations for decades. National media almost completely ignored the story, and Kitagawa’s business continued to thrive, even when a Tokyo appea...

Tourists are packing European hotspots. And Americans don’t mind the higher prices and crowds

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:42:55 GMT

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Tourists are waiting more than two hours to visit the Acropolis in Athens. Taxi lines at Rome’s main train station are running just as long. And so many visitors are concentrating around St. Mark’s Square in Venice that crowds get backed up crossing bridges — even on weekdays.After three years of pandemic limitations, tourism is expected to exceed 2019 records in some of Europe’s most popular destinations this summer, from Barcelona and Rome, Athens and Venice to the scenic islands of Santorini in Greece, Capri in Italy and Mallorca in Spain.While European tourists edged the industry toward recovery last year, the upswing this summer is led largely by Americans, boosted by a strong dollar and in some cases pandemic savings. Many arrive motivated by “revenge tourism” — so eager to explore again that they’re undaunted by higher airfares and hotel costs.Lauren Gonzalez, 25, landed in Rome this week with four high school and college friends for a 16-day romp t...