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A Tragedy in Atlanta
Eight people, including several women of Asian descent, were shot to death at a string of
Atlanta-area massage parlors, raising fear across the community that the victims were targeted because of their race. After a search by authorities, a 21-year-old man was arrested about 150 miles south of Atlanta.
While the motive behind the killings was not immediately known, the shootings took place at an Asian massage parlor in Acworth, Ga., and two Atlanta spas where many of the employees are Asian. With fear spreading across spas and massage parlors in the area, the Atlanta Police Department said that commanders in the area where the killings took place increased patrols and dispatched officers to check similar businesses nearby.
To the editor: Much gratitude for reporter Thomas Curwen’s exhaustive piece on what it is like to fight serious COVID-19 illness from the very real cost to patients and their families, to the toll on the physicians and nurses trying to bring patients back at any cost.
In my 70 years on this planet, several surreal moments stand out. One happened three decades ago on a foggy night in the Bronx. As I was driving home, I saw emerging from the thick mist a giraffe, two zebras and monkeys. Another is happening right now: Patients with a modicum of common sense and plenty of IQ points insist to me that COVID-19 isn’t real, and that the vaccines aren’t actually vaccines.
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At 1 a.m., the first alarm goes off. Blanca Lopez shakes off the sleep. For the last eight months, she’s been telling herself the same thing.
“I need to hustle. I’m so young, I need to make this money.”
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9:35 AM, Mar. 17, 2021An earlier version of this story said confetti appears on the Robinhood app whenever a user makes a transaction. It appears only on the first trade.
The 23-year-old South L.A. native, a case manager for a senior home, reaches for her iPhone and opens up Webull, an investing app that has surged in popularity since January. The app enables her to buy and sell stocks 5½ hours before the market opens for regular trading.
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On a cold Tuesday evening in January, Blanca Lopez and her son Criztiaan Juarez drove from their home in Glendale to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center… Five months earlier, she had nearly died of COVID-19, and an ambulance, following the same route she drove today, took her to UCLA. (UCLA’s Susan Valentine, Dr. Peymon Benharash and Dr. Vadim Gudenzko were quoted. Valentine, Gudenzko, Beharash and UCLA’s Cathy Levenstein were quoted in an accompanying Los Angeles Times article.)