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TikTok Ban Explained: What's The Fate Of Popular Video Sharing App?
Another sell-or-be-banned TikTok legislation is working its way up to the Senate. The House passed the sell-or-be-banned bill for the app (360-58) on Saturday, April 20 as part of a larger foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, giving Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance up to a year to sell the app. Otherwise, TikTok will be subject to a nationwide ban. According to Politico, the bill is expected to pass the Senate as it's considered "priority legislation" for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. A previous, standalone bill was passed by the House in March over national security co…
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Popular Chinese Restaurant Owners Had Heirlooms, Money Stolen In West Deptford Burglary
A son is pleading for financial help after his parents' home was burglarized and precious family heirlooms stolen in Mercer County. Ethan Wang of Princeton Junction said his parents, Sara Wang and John Kang, "work themselves to the bone" at a restaurant they've run in West Windsor for 25 years called Hot Wok Cafe. "My mother is now 63 and my father is 65. I want to see them retire," Ethan wrote on a GoFundMe page. On March 6, the parents' home was broken into between 5 and 7 p.m., West Windsor police confirmed. The suspects stole a large amount of cash from their business and many valuabl…
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'A Taste Of Taiwan': New Restaurant Opens In North Jersey
A North Jersey eatery is aiming to introduce people to the diverse world of Taiwanese cuisine. Bowlba recently opened at 59 Passaic St. in Garfield, bringing the taste of Taipei to the area. The restaurant is the brainchild of Chloe Leung, her husband Clement, and Bosco Won, a partner and chef. "This is my wife's passion project," Clement Leung said. "Her family is from Taiwan and they've worked in the Taiwanese night markets for past 40 years." View this post on Instagram A post shared by BOWLBA Taiwan Eatery (@bowlba.usa) After immigratin…
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Revolving Sushi Bar Opening 2nd NJ Location
A Japanese restaurant known for its revolving sushi bar is opening a second New Jersey location. Kura Sushi, in Fort Lee, announced it will soon be landing in Jersey City. According to its website, the new digs will be located in Newport Tower on 525 Washington Blvd. Kura Sushi Fort LeeKura Sushi The innovative and tech interactive Japanese restaurant brands itself as "pioneers of the revolving sushi concept." Its first restaurant was born in Japan in 1977. It has since expanded with more than 540 locations across Japan, Taiwan and the United States. "Our philosophy of muten or 'no…
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: Onetime Phenom, Ex-NJ Net Among 18 Charged By Feds With $4M NBA Health Care Fraud
Disgraced onetime phenom Sebastian Telfair and more than a dozen other NBA veterans are charged with scamming the league's health plan out of millions of dollars, federal authorities announced Thursday. Darius Miles and Glen Davis are also among the 18 defendants named in an indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan that alleges they filed nearly $4 million in fake medical and dental claims to the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan for active and retired players. Former New Jersey Nets shooting guard Terrence Williams ran the scam, supplying letters that justified medical services…
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NJ Woman Hospitalized In Hackensack Tests Negative For Coronavirus
UPDATE: A 25-year-old New Jersey woman tested negative for the coronavirus, the state Department of Health said. It turned out she had a cold. The woman was transported to HUMC from Riverside Medical Group at Mariners Plaza on River Road in Edgewater around 6 p.m. Thursday with possible exposure to the mysterious pneumonia-like respiratory illness, borough police said. She was discharged more than five hours later after tests came up negative. "The NJ Department of Heath consulted with the CDC and it was determined patient did not meet CDC criteria for testing for the novel virus," the sta…
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After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy
A college student and Democratic Party activist has started a petition calling for the Ronald Reagan Academy in Elizabeth to be renamed after a recording of the 40th president referring to Africans as "monkeys" emerged a few weeks ago. Ricky Castaneda, 21, launched the petition on Change.org and hopes to have it signed by 1,000 people in time for the next Elizabeth Board of Education meeting Aug 22. "In [the] wake of the damaging October 1971 racist phone conversation between Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon that recently surfaced, outraged human/civil rights a…