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Shen Yun Delights Audiences at a Packed Lincoln Center
Audience members were lucky to get a ticket to this Friday’s sold-out show at Lincoln Center, one of America’s premiere stages. Shen Yun performed at the Koch Theater, a principal stage at the Lincoln Center complex. The grand artistic venue was conceived in the late 1960s as a government entity…
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4.1 Earthquake Strikes Pandemic-stricken Hong Kong
News Analysis Over 8,000 Hong Kong residents reported feeling an earthquake in the early morning hours of March 14. The quake was mild, weighing in at 4.1 on the Richter scale. Some residents reported seeing furniture and a pendant light swaying. Shaking lasted from 2 to 5…
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Rains, Quick Responder Action Help Prevent ‘One of the Worst Explosions in US History’
A community rallied together this week to avoid potential disaster as a burgeoning fire reported Jan. 31 at the Winston Weaver Co. fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina approached a cache of 600 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers. The 6,500 residents…
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Middlesbrough Upsets Manchester in Penalties Cliffhanger, Snapping 17-year Losing Streak
Middlesbrough fans went wild after Manchester United’s Anthony Elanga fired his last shot high over the goal bar at Old Trafford on Feb. 4, causing Manchester to blunder the FA Cup at home for the price of a penalty kick, or of sundry other mistakes. It was almost an unbelievable…
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Log4Shell: Burgeoning Zero-day Exploit may not be Completely Patched
A cross-platform vulnerability was first reported around Thanksgiving in Apache Log4j, which according to Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender, is a popular open-source library written in Java. The zero-day exploit allowed for the injection of arbitrary code, and was tracked by security companies as being involved in several…
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GoDaddy Devastated by Hack Exposing 1.2 Million Accounts, SSL Private Keys
On Nov. 17, just one week before Cyber Monday, the popular Internet hosting company GoDaddy was breached, according to a SEC filing published five days later on Nov. 22. The company warned the event increases the risk of phishing attacks, as well as posing a more direct…
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New Kid Rock Single Leaves Weird Al Unable To Contain Himself
For both fans and detractors who were unsure of its origin, the music video for Kid Rock’s new single Don’t Tell Me How to Live does actually belong to the country-rock-rapper, who some simply describe as a “concept artist.” The rap-masquerading-as-rock not only features Canadian rock band…
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Chinese Government Workers Kill Pet Corgi With Crowbar While Owner Quarantined Under ‘COVID Zero’ Policy
Quarantined in the Chinese city of Shangrao in Jiangxi province, Ms. Fu watched the beginning of her pet corgi, Chaofen’s, last moments. Fu was able to see what was happening in real time on her phone through a security camera app, and attempted to intervene remotely, and…
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CCP Fears Unrest, Censors Elites in Three-Pronged Strategy
Violators of the Chinese Communist Party’s new rules for regulating the speech of elites could face suspension and even a permanent industry ban according to a China Media Bulletin from human rights organization Freedom House. Since January, a three-pronged increase in censorship has been rolled out by…
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European Parliament Members Convene to Discuss CCP’s Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Prisoners
Human-rights affiliated site minghui.org, which covers stories related to both the beauty of and persecution of Falun Dafa, reported that on Oct. 27, the online forum titled “China – Forced Organ Harvesting and the Chinese Communist Party” was held at the Brussels Press Club adjacent to the…
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First Nor’easter of the Season Soaking New York City, Boston, and Tri-State Area
Accuweather Meteorologist Paul Walker predicted a “heavy” downpour beginning at nightfall Oct. 25 affecting a swath from New York City to Boston. Described as “an early-season tempest,” in the Tri-State region, the rain may not completely stop before the morning of Oct. 27. New York City saw…
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Hurricane Rick Brings High Winds, Rain, and Storm Surge With Landfall on Mexico’s Southern Pacific Coast Early Monday Morning
Hurricane Rick is presently slightly offshore and soaking Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as well as inundating the area with high winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC). Earlier today, Acapulco’s state of Guerrero already reported rains as well as winds that had upended trees and…