That he picked her. Yes. I would like to report a breakin. A mother home alone, cops raced to her front door as she walks into an ambush in her backyard. With officers all around her home. Surreal, awful. But the killer caught red handed starts pointing fingers. This is a guy who aspired to be a hit man. She was a target. Detectives set out a trap. Trying to play cat and mouse. You hold up a note that says are you wired? you hold your breath, the world kind of stop. You never think it s going to be you treat oh no. No, no. No, the young man is right. This doesn t happen to anyone. No, never. Never thought i would have seen anything like this. Not here, not in this neighborhood, in this house, but certainly not surely not at the moment when at least three policemen were outside the front door, and over the backyard wall not more than 30 feet away. We had to be told a few times just to get it in our heads what happened. What happened here in broad daylight under the very noses of the cop
this when we reached 100,000. it s wrenching to confront the fact that we re now at 500,000. five times that. covid has killed not just our friends and families, but our connections to communities. sadly, we still cannot gather safely in a chapel, mosque, or synagogue. for the next hour, let us come together here to try to heal and to remember. we re going to share some incredible stories of lives that were cut too short but that were lived brilliantly. and we will be uplifted in prayer by religious leaders and gospel song. let s begin with cardinal wilton gregory, america s first black cardinal, and he spoke at the memorial on the national mall led by president biden in january. cardinal, thank you for joining me. how do you try to console those who have lost loved ones? well, jake, one of things that i ve discovered as a priest is that in the face of death and suffering and illness, words are inadequate. there s not really a lot of things that you can say other than sayin
westminster, london, 2020. simon cheng thinks he is being followed. two weeks later, simon thinks he is being followed again. around the same time, receives an anonymous e mail. it s title chinese agents will find you and bring you back. that is a threat and i worry about my personal safety and others around me. about my personal safety and others around me. simon cheng is one of the others around me. simon cheng is one of the leading others around me. simon cheng is one of the leading figures - is one of the leading figures in the hong kong democracy movement. fouryears in the hong kong democracy movement. four years ago he was working in the british consulate and was asked to monitor escalating protests. weeks later he vanished during a consulate trip to mainland china. police says he was accused of soliciting prostitution. they framed me to simon says he was accused of being produced by and then tortured. he says he was restrained in a device known as a tiger chair.
named after them. but what about us latinos? we ve been here in this city, and we ve got every kind of latino. you want your puerto ricans? wepa. you want your cubans? dale! dominicans? que lo que tigre. colombianos? todo bien, todo bien. mexicanos? no manches, guey. and this is where i grew up, too. and when i was a kid, i don t know what the streets were paved with, but it damn sure as hell was not gold. but that didn t stop latinx new yorkers from making big contributions. basquiat, rita moreno puerto rican. cardi b dominican. supreme court justice sotomayor, nuyorican from the bx. even the very first non-indigenous person to live and work in the island of manhattan in the 1600s was juan rodriguez, a dominicano. mira eso, right from the start, we ve been here making this city great. now, i don t know what new york would be without latinos, but it sure as hell wouldn t smell as good, it wouldn t taste as good, and it definitely wouldn t sound as good. that s right, cause
the white house. now, needless to say, therer th is a lot to unpack. so let s begin with the big guy himself. that guy right. your president, joe biden,t how did he become so rich after decades as being a publicr servant? decas, e ho one right there on a beautifulue beach. he has that classic corvette. weacd a all know about a net wh of around ten million dollars. so how did this happen on a meager government salary? odid joe profit from his son ? shady international business deals now based on texts and emails from hunter s laptop from . while there is evidence that appears to show that hunter complained bitterly about having to hand over half his salary to , quote, pops evenrni paid for joe s upkeep at hisov mansion and repairs, he hated it. it was als o one email thatit. discussed a 10% payout to the big guy held by hunter. that is likely just the tip of the iceberg. now, according to an ongoingandt investigation from the house oversight committee, there are overg. twent