American-Asians were increasingly subjected to hate crimes over the last year, the San Francisco Police Department said.

According to their calculations, the number of such crimes increased by as much as 567%

🇺🇸 The US Federal Reserve has kept interest rates in the range between 0% and 0.25%, but signaled the first pandemic-era hike is around the corner.

Here is what Fed Chief Jerome Powell says:

💰The US economy no longer needs massive monetary support
💰Inflation, which hit a 40-year high of 7% per annum in December, is likely to continue overshooting the 2% target for longer than expected
💰It could pose a significant threat to a strong US labor market over time
💰The Fed is not ruling out raising interest rates monthly once the first pandemic-era hike takes place
💰The US is not making progress addressing supply chain issues, and shortages of semiconductor chips are expected to last beyond 2023

💉 A new study has shown that it doesn't matter if one gets a breakthrough infection or vaccinated after a natural infection. In both cases, the immune response, measured in serum, revealed antibodies that were equally more abundant and potent - at least 10 times stronger than the immunity generated by vaccination alone.

However, the study was completed before the advent of the omicron variant.

Two forms of immunity - breakthrough infections following vaccination or natural infection followed by vaccination - provide approximately the same level of enhanced protection

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🇺🇸 Non-profit organizations supplying vaccines in the United States donated 42 million doses to Pakistan, 28 million to Bangladesh and 24 million to the Philippines.

The US has sent more than 400 million free doses of COVID-19 vaccine to 112 countries in need around the world, the White House said.

🗣 “Today, we will hit a major milestone in our global effort: 400 million vaccine doses shipped to 112 countries … for free, no strings attached,” White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said at a press conference

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📈 The Federal Reserve announced that it would be appropriate to raise US interest rates soon due to inflation exceeding the central bank's target of 2% per year.

Kyle Shostak, director of Navigator Principal Investors, said the US Federal Reserve's attempt to contain inflation caused by its own money-printing policy was at least six months late

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🦠 In one week, from January 14 to 20, almost 1,151,000 cases of COVID-19 were reported among children. Those numbers are up 17% from the previous reported 981,000 cases on Jan. 13, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a report.

10.6 million children have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic. And of these, 2 million in just the last two weeks. Since the emergence of the omicron virus strain, the number of cases has increased significantly

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👏 👍 Police officer arrested a DoorDash driver who was supposed to deliver food to a customer. So officer Sam Buhr decided to finish the delivery.

😐 The US intelligence community’s system of classifying and withholding information erodes national security because it withholds far too much information from the public, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines said in a letter to lawmakers revealed on Thursday.

🇨🇳 Hunter Biden's Chinese ties are coming under new scrutiny.

According to a new book noscriptd "Red Handed" by Peter Schweizer, based on emails from that notorious computer, Hunter allegedly received secretarial services from former Chinese government researcher JiaQi Bao

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⚡️ Three police officers shot in Texas' Houston, suspect at large

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Speaking on "The Guy Benson Show," Former US Ambassador Nikki Haley called on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to resign.

🗣 "It's absolutely cringeworthy listening to Biden's press conference because literally you never show your cards especially when you don't have any. And that's literally what he did," Haley told radio host and Fox News contributor Guy Benson.

Haley also touched on Biden's foreign policy, saying "He destroyed Afghanistan and put us in a situation with Russia," while also raising concerns about the pandemic

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South Park never ceases to amaze! The return of the show to Comedy Central for its 25th season on February 2 will be accompanied by a grandiose rendition of a South Park classic. A 30-piece orchestra and a collection of Broadway singers were brought together for an epic performance of “Kyle’s Mom.”

Stephen Oremus called some of the most talented Broadway performers he knew to bring this classy cover to life.

📹 Watch a short excerpt from the soundtrack

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What else do Musk and Depp have in common besides dating Amber Heard? Hatred for her.

As it turned out, Amber and Johnny Depp were the cause of Musk and Grimes splitting up, as Johnny Depp accused Amber of adultery. Depp has confirmed that this is how the war between Elon Musk and Amber Heard started, as Depp accused Musk of being in a relationship with his then-wife Heard.

As you know, Johnny Depp lost the course in which Amber claimed that he beat her. Depp would soon be given the 'wife beater' label in 'The Sun' newspaper in 2018. But then, in 2019, Johnny filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife, as Amber during her marriage settlement took a pledge to give half of the $7 million she received to the ACLU organization.

And with the help of Elon Musk, what Amber described as being one her one of good qualities was proven wrong and totally unacceptable

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