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Shoppers visit a Daiso shop as the shop opened to the media in Tokyo, on April 13, 2022. Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for its 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80.(Kyodo News via AP)

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Founder of Japanese dollar-store chain Daiso dies; he was 80
Tue,02/20/24-3:28AM , 63 Reads
TOKYO (AP) — Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for its 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80.

Yano died Feb. 12 of heart failure, Daiso Industries Co. said in a statement Monday.
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The Matthew J. Perry, Jr. Courthouse in Columbia, S.C., is seen on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin at the courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 20, where Daqua Lameek Ritter faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

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First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing
By JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,02/19/24-11:06PM , 62 Reads
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity began Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York.
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Retired Army Col. Farrell Patrick, 91, wears a Mynd Immersive virtual reality headset at John Knox Village, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Pompano Beach, Fla. John Knox Village was one of 17 senior communities around the country that participated in a recently published Stanford University study that found that large majorities of 245 participants between 65- and 103-years-old enjoyed virtual reality, improving both their emotions and their interactions with staff. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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'Soaring' over hills or 'playing' with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality
Mon,02/19/24-8:55AM , 102 Reads
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Retired Army Col. Farrell Patrick taught computer science at West Point during the 1970s and then at two private universities through the 1990s, so he isn't surprised by the progress technology has made over the decades.
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A mural of Argentine former first lady María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva Perón, or Evita, depicting her with a saint's halo, adorns a wall inside the Peron Peron restaurant in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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A prayer for Evita: Here's why many Argentines are devoted to a first lady who died in 1952
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press
Mon,02/19/24-7:12AM , 149 Reads
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón.

Perón — unlike the others — has not been canonized by the Vatican, but this doesn’t matter to Celerier.
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