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The spring thaw has a history of ruining plans by armies to attack across Ukraine and western Russia, turning roads into rivers and fields into quagmires. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | WBwJgexMgyDeZnCTEonmYB |
If it was behind the Kolomna incident, it would be its closest attempted drone strike to the Russian capital. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | vwziq5SdzyhrmUN8umD5E9 |
Russia has replenished its forces with hundreds of thousands of conscripts and has intensified attacks all along the eastern front but at a high cost, says Ukraine, which is expected soon to launch its own counter-offensive. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | pJ7CYSHamqsjfs6YdGQziR |
The city is on fire, the enemy is pressing. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | UM3XSu7wbarv35wKxsL9z2 |
Earlier, Russia's defence ministry also accused Ukraine of launching two attempted drone attacks against two southern Russian regions overnight but said they caused no damage. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | aNd6huhrpfZ3UGHHffy9Fs |
Reuters was not able to verify battlefield reports. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | KXeb2Jy4TFyyGDWS9qcfs7 |
It would open the way to seizing the last remaining urban centres in the Donetsk region, one of four Moscow claims to have annexed. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | HkQ9Nuw9vUghduKjZScnxe |
Russia's state-run RIA news agency released a video clip it said showed Russian Su-25 fighter jets roaring over Bakhmut, which had a pre-war population of around 70,000 but now lies in ruins after months of intense trench warfare. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | mw26r84JDCKRKzuj88ad6G |
Russia will never be able to compromise on this, these are important realities," Peskov told reporters. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | SeiHrxJZbcrAnmmHSQapUR |
Kyiv has so far ruled out talks with Moscow and has demanded that Russian troops withdraw to Ukraine's borders in 1991 - the year the Soviet Union collapsed. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | GXrBXaTSStt8F3SHuksiEz |
Everything will be Ukraine..." | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 1 | yypXos2s77F3BsJix5p6uo |
Thus, it is impossible to move forward," said Mykola, 59, commander of a Ukrainian front-line rocket launcher battery, watching a tablet screen for coordinates to fire. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | AnDWj73sVkgMqB5tj8odmm |
"Despite significant losses, the enemy threw in the most prepared assault units of Wagner, who are trying to break through the defences of our troops and surround the city," Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said in a statement. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | 9rUj3LDRYMwzVoUENMwhPV |
KYIV, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Russian forces on Tuesday pressed forward their weeks-long drive to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, where the Ukrainian military described the attacks as constant. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | SvgFkiNQ2FNuES7sYAonkv |
On Tuesday, the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor Karim Khan was in Ukraine to investigate Russia's campaign of missile and drone attacks on power and other infrastructure that killed hundreds of civilians and left millions with no electricity or water. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | xUc6xBYgCTptopafPfj8Wx |
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region hunkered in muddy trenches after warmer weather thawed the frozen ground. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | YBCmnrYRSMe6FQaqSmERMA |
"The constitution of the Russian Federation exists, and cannot be ignored. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | a9RtGNEeGuTU49XCDJsSQW |
Around Bakhmut, Russian troops, including mercenary fighters from the Wagner Group, were trying to cut the Ukrainian defenders' supply lines and force them to surrender or withdraw. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | Az62QaRPohoxQF9NGoP64S |
"We are glad they are ours," says a man in the clip identified as a Wagner fighter, adding the jets helped them "psychologically". | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | mnVg7NnLmRRGptrCpgm77a |
Ukraine does not publicly claim responsibility for attacks inside Russia. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | S4N4rxqtxPQv9kBamVhdw3 |
Ukrainian aircraft launched three strikes on areas of concentration of Russian forces, the statement said. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | MPF6eyj3Q8wcvRBEYSDbQc |
Despite several battlefield setbacks, Russia still controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | GxPXKQ8sVJj2ejgG4ZgA43 |
"Both sides stay in their positions, because as you see, spring means mud. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | DgTf5LGaRdW7DC28VL8brD |
He was speaking after a Russian regional governor said a drone had crashed near a natural gas distribution station on Tuesday in an apparent failed attack near the town of Kolomna, just 110 km (68 miles) southeast of Moscow. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | mJ6bF78bPFg5viS6U9gZBd |
An unnamed soldier from Ukraine's 93rd Separate Mechanised Brigade, speaking on the Telegram messaging app as explosions boomed in the background, struck a defiant note: "February 28, the town of Bakhmut. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | JWQDVcbFX8XbGtpKxV7mZV |
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated Moscow's stance that it is open to peace negotiations but Kyiv and its Western allies must accept Russia's annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions after referendums last September that most governments said were illegal. | https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-offensive-eastern-ukraine-focused-bakhmut-2023-02-28 | Reuters | international-politics-and-world-news | 0 | qgKBNndMLTCCiM6j3oANNW |
Breaking the pot after eating’ is Chinese [for] biting the hand that feeds you”,” wrote CNBC correspondent Eunice Yoon. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | pLcy3W4S6V5qxhzp4ACpQx |
There’s not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified,” he said. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | ntimv7iikfnXCVQSEK7vUM |
Wray did not explain the evidence that had informed the FBI’s conclusion. “ | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | Edgre47dJMJKRvodDiESvz |
Some scientists who have studied the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed back against the endorsement of the lab leak theory by US agencies. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | tJr6PPWYgwBjdJiubA9rvp |
The Central Intelligence Agency and another prominent US federal agency still remain undecided about the origins of Covid-19, while the National Intelligence Council and four other agencies have concluded that the virus originated in animals, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | 79eiLJ7AmuKbSvntgT7JFX |
Wray’s public comments come at a time of heightened tension between the US and China, after the discovery of a Chinese spy balloon sparked an international controversy, and was used by both Republicans and Democrats to criticize the leadership of the opposing party. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | VkbR3k9TH3ioUXtxfynWq2 |
Wray’s high-profile public comment highlights the divide within the US intelligence community about the origins of the pandemic, with some federal agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Energy, concluding that the Covid-19 virus probably originated from a lab leak in China, while others have concluded that it first spread from infected animals to humans. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | JfeTpkWauXKFRHcXJvGhrp |
“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray told Fox News’ Brett Baier, adding that the assessment was based on research the agency’s analysts, including scientists, had conducted and that “our work related to this continues”. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | PP4FRBJBFtuhvzNDMcNoYn |
Wray’s public endorsement of the lab leak theory runs counter to the conclusions of several prominent scientific studies, as well as the assessments of some other US intelligence agencies. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | Pd7f4VW3PbESwUPi5c6moc |
“Two prior studies – one of which I co-authored – demonstrate clearly using multiple lines of evidence that the pandemic emerged into the human population at least twice over an approximately two-week period at or immediately upstream of Huanan market in association with the live animal trade,” Angie Rasmussen, a professor with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, told the Guardian this week. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | cs6mC2yEPL2izLbLRdBNsT |
CNBC reported that the Global Times used its social media pages to warn Musk not to “break the pot”. “‘ | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | sokHHBTtphQ2PAKt6zP3Vn |
The energy department also concluded in a classified intelligence report that Covid-19 most likely resulted from a laboratory leak, but made this assessment with “low confidence”, while the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021 with “moderate confidence”, the Wall Street Journal reported. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | CoopX4qhSeHK4TuTANpyrS |
Scientists have also noted that, unlike peer-reviewed scientific studies, the US intelligence assessments being debated do not provide public transparency about how they reached their conclusions or the evidence they accumulated. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | vrA3Bsy54XM7Yh7J5fKJS2 |
Tesla, Musk’s company, has a huge factory building electric cars in Shanghai, both for the domestic Chinese market – the second-largest outlet for its vehicles – and for export to other countries. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | 3arSzm5BFGYHKGy4QsapZe |
China’s Communist party government demonstrated its sensitivity about Covid’s origin, with state-run media outlet the Global Times issuing a warning to Elon Musk not to risk his relationship with China, after he sent tweets discussing the Department of Energy report on the lab leak theory. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | vcXez23aKUZZ4v8C8H6NSd |
Christopher Wray, the FBI director, has weighed in on the debate over the origins of the Covid-19 virus, using an appearance on Fox News to endorse the theory that the virus potentially originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | nH4y26NuMwPV4tcQgiegEB |
“While I believe the ‘lab leak’ theory a real possibility, I should point out that the [energy department’s] assessment has ‘low confidence’ in that assessment and their assessment did not change the minds of any of the other agencies,” Dr Filippa Lentzos, a reader in science and international security at King’s College London, previously told the Guardian. | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory | The Guardian | coronavirus | 0 | aTwEZ94uGv8V8kLrnM4o9r |
US, congressional Republicans on both committees have parroted talking points identical to the bank industry’s own to defend overdraft fees. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 0 | Kx62YtTZWHzzV9pcUjrefz |
Amusingly, Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee also feigned outrage last year about the CFPB’s effort, describing the agency’s actions as an “attack” on the “services Americans rely on.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 1 | HHQMJGusfF2NnWcqe452Dn |
In an era of “fee-flation,” it seems like Americans can’t make a single purchase without junk fees being added at checkout. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 1 | YmpTPnCMn64Mh7q7psGhA3 |
Putting the ethical issues aside, with the 2024 presidential campaign cycle set to kick into gear, Republicans would be unwise to tie themselves to the cause of defending junk fees. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 1 | r2a8xuJAksxD99Dt8BDaUf |
A timely example is Ticketmaster, an unaccountable corporate giant whose monopoly position in the ticketing industry enables the company to charge exorbitant junk fees. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 1 | JSXBz8oRojgBZFvGbAu39x |
According to the report, the relevant members of Congress have received over $3 million in career donations from leading banks and industry groups supportive of overdraft fees. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 0 | cZCUSe4gxLrDVJ9aYpC3mh |
In fact, it’s for this very reason that banning junk fees has been a key goal of the Biden administration’s competition agenda announced in his first year in office. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 0 | 3MpT9khVkkdvFUkK6AHhUi |
From massive fees for consumers who switch internet providers, to concert “service fees” that can reach up to 20 percent of the tickets themselves, American consumers are paying the price for corporate greed. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 1 | x4ssh2QSFuNrszfR8d68kL |
In his State of the Union speech earlier this month, President Joe Biden outlined a number of policies to help working-class Americans, including a ban on predatory junk fees. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-really-want-you-to-keep-paying-junk-fees?ref=wrap | The Daily Beast | middle-class | 0 | t9v9G3yEVLnp8xvQzGkcsa |
Gendron had streamed live video of the attack on social media after posting a racist screed online detailing his inspiration from other racially motivated mass killings, authorities said. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | CbZWfhumNcjkaPdNiKYAsm |
The sentence, which was expected because the state does not employ the death penalty, was given by Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | E6yvjnU3KDwyYyGELzgbC9 |
His lawyers have sought a plea deal relating to these in an effort to avoid a possible death sentence. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | Xh6CvPRYQQbfDwHityu2Lh |
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown called Gendron's apology too little and too late. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 92bqpujdSfRXxxsQBcWQbN |
"I anticipate what he said today was to save his life in federal court," Flynn said after the hearing. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 7rimUFX69xMYGcL9iFdBvA |
I wish they keep you alive so you have to suffer with the thought of what you did for the rest of your life." | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | mrCsCpw7CdZt3dw8CPq9GV |
I shot and killed people because they were Black." | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | AUNmcixFM3aeMSTV6B4Vei |
Gendron's defense attorney, Brian Parker, told a news conference that his client was remorseful. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 9gpsMCjAG7RWcCAaihPWAZ |
Her 72-year-old sister, Katherine Massey, was among those killed. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | gRVv3ZGE8xMek5fS7QW2z3 |
Wearing an orange jumpsuit and glasses, Gendron apologized to the families of his victims, whose ages ranged from 20 to 86, expressing regret for his actions and hope that his crime will not inspire copycat attacks. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | TCfePzmAAATsnHbo9EeQhw |
While New York state no longer uses capital punishment, Gendron still could receive a death sentence if convicted of pending federal hate crime and firearms charges to which he has pleaded not guilty. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | mmUjEqD2yVQQQVs3WwPwu2 |
The man pushed Massey Mapps aside and took several running steps toward Gendron before police and attorneys restrained him and led him away. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 7cSjpwcmUfe9J3kb2uhPMG |
Officers grabbed Gendron and rushed him out of the courtroom. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | ver8wo9o6RyAL96xpiuotJ |
In addition to the 10 people who were killed, three others were wounded. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | BQwRdpsRGxLzsJBbhczgbS |
I did a terrible thing that day. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | QTHsQSi2nLJZZbySEPGRDz |
Gendron faces 27 federal charges. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | CkiihcrGtUFzY6bEYvpEUa |
Authorities have said Gendron promoted a racist conspiracy notion that white people are being replaced by minorities in America and elsewhere. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | QX9QdEJUr2KFcYG6fTSLwo |
At one point, a man in the courtroom lunged at Payton Gendron, who had pleaded guilty to 15 state charges including murder and terrorism motivated by hate stemming from the May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, a city of about 277,000 people. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | sEXLUvS4z7z9jcudrE5XzD |
BUFFALO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - An avowed white supremacist on Wednesday apologized to the families of the 10 Black people he fatally shot last year at a western New York grocery store before being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole during a chaotic and emotional hearing. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 2aRhinemfQ9AhbH9GFZQCX |
"I don't wish the death penalty on you," said Wayne Jones, whose 65-year-old mother Celestine Chaney was gunned down. " | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | nHqqaap5WVkiBNB7Pd9Gn8 |
Thirteen relatives of victims spoke during the hearing including Simone Crawley, who called Gendron, 19, a "cowardly racist." | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | fouCRKbiRacwtTL6RzPDvw |
Crawley, whose 86-year-old grandmother Ruth Whitfield was killed, said Gendron made his victims immortal instead of gaining support for his hateful cause. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | phvVour4mtjmTMY6grVTV8 |
"We hope that knowing he will never be free again will offer some small bit of comfort to those he has hurt so much," Parker said. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | CwWVXnN868FizpoFhwq3kn |
The U.S. Justice Department has not disclosed what punishment it would seek if Gendron is convicted. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | 2yeDZGJ3RzFNGdemkpkguw |
"We as a people are unbreakable," Crawley said. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | hq4sNa3BjxRpjT78TYRusa |
Gendron was 18 at the time of the attack. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | PWLuFaMTbHQdwGv7d3ix9m |
Prosecutors have said the gunman targeted a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo, about 200 miles (320 km) from his home in Conklin, New York, intending to kill as many Black people as he could with an assault weapon. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | f2XCu9Sg9gcH4B64A2rSZo |
"I am very sorry for all of the pain I forced all of the victims and their families to suffer through," said Gendron, who was standing and looking downward while speaking. " | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | WTwKsGmgQ69NnQeUYnFmxd |
The hearing was halted briefly after an unidentified man lunged at Gendron, who was sitting at a table in the courtroom with his attorneys as a woman named Barbara Massey Mapps made an emotional statement. | https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gunman-racist-buffalo-shooting-faces-life-without-parole-sentencing-2023-02-15/ | Reuters | gun-control | 0 | mZYE6c8QiQpPxoUxiK8LUJ |
It’s baked into Keon’s choice of an all-white senior leadership team, the snickers on stage at his racist antics, and the spectacle of Keon saying he is directing an “interdisciplinary” Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity team “to understand and address issues of importance to the Asian Pacific Islander community at PNW.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | jxC25cgX9oAwq4jsqZVQXr |
As linguistics professor John McWhorter points out in a New York Times opinion piece, Rooney’s scenes make the film “unwatchable in spots today” yet McWhorter still advocates against “mobbish attempts” to get Keon fired. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 0 | ejbcgjsneor8dzFaJ4DzDQ |
A far better understanding of cancel culture is articulated by the poet and communications strategist Camonghne Felix, who, when speaking about pop stars facing criticism, recognizes that “cancellation isn’t personal but a way for marginalized communities to publicly assert their value systems through pop culture.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 0 | PC2ctYTWKRJtUeaCLjn7rz |
Those who think Chancellor Keon is a victim of so-called “cancel culture” and call for more “tolerance” also don’t get the idea that “cancel culture” is mostly a term adopted by the right to protect racist and hateful views that were until recently normalized. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | zb8dURdV4KCvPdtsMPW48C |
An institution whose leaders think that racist mockery is acceptable should not be in charge of educating young minds. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | 5QPBWGSdKC7AYu98Mo8azg |
After the Trustees issued a toothless “letter of formal reprimand,” the chair of the faculty senate wrote an open letter saying that “[Keon’s] mere presence is an affront to the Asian community” and students have circulated petitions calling for Keon’s resignation. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | 4feRvYKTsjCa9wnvk7ZcY9 |
It’s that devaluing that allows the perpetration of hateful speech and violence. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | HLCiUmKyyJ2iqTT9JefgLN |
When you ridicule a race of people you dehumanize and devalue their worth as individuals. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | pe5PoLaNUQwKCzos6NeBkz |
Institutionalized racism. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | ThERrPBxUP3SsxJ2QCCuWr |
His confidence in his sense of humor is the same confidence Donald Trump displayed when he called COVID-19 the “kung-flu” and mocked the accent of Asian world leaders. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | 3KjoqjniJLVHf6GeEAUBFj |
This coincided with a rise in online anti-Asian hatred. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | dybdmKWoMAshhd5UmVoEmP |
It was a moment where Keon stood at the apex of his white male power as the chancellor of a major university speaking at commencement. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | q7h83wkt6VoaXvsFfk9Pmz |
They overwhelmingly voted no-confidence in Keon’s leadership, as did the faculty senate, and the PNW chapter of the American University Association of University Professors called for his resignation. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 0 | nMkBmB8xqsLXwv6aFrxmpt |
Let’s cancel institutional racism. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | AkjXV2ks6JjF3dhwHrArS4 |
A recent review of TikTok found the widespread use of racist “Asian sounds” with users saying “Asian sounding words by speaking gibberish” and using sounds like this to portray “people of Asian descent as irrational or overly emotional, reducing an entire racial group to a mere caricature.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 0 | oZtyjpmtUVRSxsyFgy7Kua |
As one conservative commentator put it: “We don’t object to ‘cancel culture,’ we object to the cancellation of certain acts, ideas and sensibilities that were recently uncontroversial.” | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 0 | aPgzWJqMJ7YiejCuqskP7f |
Notice how Keon lumped his mockery into “Asian”—thus revealing his view that all people from an incredible diversity of races, cultures, and countries can all be conflated into one stereotype. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | zkmcwe7y2gaTuUb9itdxym |
As most of us know, anti-Asian hate and anti-Asian crimes skyrocketed during the Trump years, including multiple incidents of elderly Asians being beaten and even killed, as well as the Atlanta mass murders of Asian women. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | Fbk8aKfynfSXZD6RHXEd65 |
The Purdue Northwest faculty and staff get it. | https://www.thedailybeast.com/refusing-to-forgive-institutional-racism-is-not-cancel-culture | The Daily Beast | white-nationalism | 1 | r3pPUbAzXA6R9jQhJqfZm2 |