‘Look at Chicago’: Politicians again use city as example of why strict gun control won’t work

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Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Aline Stern of Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood found it difficult to send her two children to school on Wednesday, the morning after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Texas, killing 19 children and two adults. She sensed a fearful tension among many other parents at drop-off as well. “I think we were all scared,” she said. “We all hugged them a little tighter. School is supposed to be a safe haven for kids. Not a place where you’re afraid.” Parents, teachers and politicians around the Chicago area spent Wednesday mourning the loss of lives following T…

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Taiwan upgrades website to expedite passport applications

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Taiwan is adding some new features to its passport application website to allow the upload of digital photos, starting next month, in an effort to save time, the Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA) said Thursday.The new photo upload feature, to be added …

Micron to introduce EUV equipment in Taiwan this year: CEO

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American dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker Micron Technology is set to install the industry’s most cutting-edge technology — extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment — in its facility in Taichung this year, the company said Wednesday.I…

Gaffes or trial balloons? Biden loose lips rattle world stage

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AFP

Washington (AFP) – From promising to defend Taiwan militarily to suggesting regime change in Russia, US President Joe Biden has developed a knack for off-the-cuff pronouncements that have rattled diplomacy. For journalists following Biden abroad, it has almost become routine — the frank-speaking US president making headlines with a loaded or brusque answer, and the White House then quickly insisting he was not setting new policy. In the last moments of a news conference in Tokyo on Monday, Biden answered affirmatively that the United States would defend Taiwan militarily if it is attacked by …

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Lee Hung-chun confirmed as Control Yuan vice president

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Former People First Party (PFP) Secretary-General Lee Hung-chun (???) was confirmed Tuesday as vice president of the Control Yuan, Taiwan’s highest watchdog body of government agencies and officials.Lee, nominated to the position by President Tsai Ing-…