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Soldiers and police in Myanmar used lethal force to suppress the latest protests against last month’s coup as the military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day with a parade in the country’s capital Saturday.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered near San Francisco City Hall to call for an end to anti-Asian racism and violence and show solidarity with the AAPI community. Cierra Johnson reports.

The Asian American community and its allies spoke out in San Jose Sunday during a rally in which organizers demanded an end to the violence and the racism. Cierra Johnson reports.

“Hate and violence often hide in plain sight,” President Joe Biden said Friday. “It’s often met with silence. That’s been true throughout our history. But that has to change because our silence is complicity. We cannot be complicit.”

Testifying before a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on anti-Asian violence on Thursday, actor Daniel Dae Kim called on Congress to take action. “What happens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter,” he said.

President Joe Biden on Thursday denounced the “vicious hate crimes” against Asian Americans across the country. “[They’ve been] attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated,” Biden said. “It’s wrong, it’s un-American, and it must stop.”

Asian American lawmakers, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats, denounced on Friday a rise in hate incidents targeting members of the Asian community across the country and called for stronger action — both by Congress and the Biden administration.

While the pandemic’s long-lasting impact has affected public health and the economy, the Asian-American community has also experienced the fallout of COVID-19 – being unfairly blamed for the pandemic and becoming the target of discrimination and violence.

The movement to stop attacks against Asians across America is growing. Amanda Nguyen, a powerful voice behind the movement, speaks with NBC Bay Area’s Janelle Wang.

Killings rose dramatically across the U.S. last year, and a study suggests that the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice unrest were factors

For months, the nationwide protests against racial injustice and COVID-19 lockdown orders have attracted all kinds of extremists using online platforms to plan, coordinate and drum up support for their activities

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday discussed the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Exhausted American cities are facing yet another challenge in addition to the coronavirus and the street protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

The Justice Department is urging U.S. attorneys nationwide to use federal courts — where more serious charges are available — to prosecute people suspected of violence or property damage during the protests over George Floyd’s death....

Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that federal agents have arrested 51 people for acts of violence since the protests began. The U.S. Marshals service...

Protesters defied an emergency decree and confronted police in Chile’s capital Monday, continuing disturbances that have left at least 11 dead and led the president to say the country is “at war.” Police used tear gas and streams of water to break up a march by hundreds of students and union members on one of Santiago’s main streets, but demonstrators...

A 66-year-old man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors on Chicago’s Northwest Side over the weekend left a note on his door with a haunting message written in Polish, prosecutors said in court Monday.

A 66-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities say he fatally shot five of his neighbors Saturday evening at an apartment complex on Chicago’s Northwest Side, according to police. Krysztof Marek, of the 6700 block of West Irving Park Road, was charged with five felony counts of first degree murder, Chicago police said in a statement Monday morning.

The fifth victim, identified as 53-year-old Jolanta Topolska succumbed to her injuries Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

A teacher was arrested Friday after a fight with a student in a classroom at an alternative high school in Maywood, the sheriff’s department confirmed.

Crowds chanted “shut it down right now” as they marched down one of Chicago’s busiest expressways on Saturday.