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12.10.2017

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The tears of Kelly Marie Tran over Star Wars gives us hope: As the stars hit the Crait carpet at the Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere in Los Angeles on Saturday night, one particular cast member couldn't contain her tears of joy. And honestly, who could blame her?

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Kelly Marie Tran steps into Star Wars stardom in 'Last Jedi': 28-year-old Kelly Marie Tran still can't believe she's in a Star Wars movie. "I am just trying to stay present and really trying to experience every moment of this. It still feels very impossible and very much like it's all a big dream or something."

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The Last Jedi's Kelly Marie Tran is the heroine we've been waiting for: Here, Tran talks about landing the biggest gig of her life, and how hard it was to keep the secret from everyone.

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Reports of crimes against Asians are rising in some cities. Police are working to figure out why. Something curious was happening with crime in California's state capital of Sacramento, police have noticed.

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Pearl Harbor Lessons: Trump's Muslim Ban Same 'Prejudice' Japanese Americans Faced During WWII, ACLU Lawyer Warns: "Seventy-six years after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the grandson of a Japanese American woman held in a concentration camp on U.S. soil during World War II is worried President Donald Trump has reinvigorated the discriminatory sentiments that saw his grandmother treated like an enemy in her own country."

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25 Years Later, He Speaks To The Man Who Killed His Son: On December 14, 1992, Wayne Lo went to his college in Massachusetts, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, and fired at random, killing two and wounding four. Now serving a life sentence, he agrees to speak to a victim's father about that day.

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What I Learned from Maxine Hong Kingston: For writer Alexis Cheung, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior showed her that her own life was worthy of examination, even exaltation. And Cheung got the opportunity to tell her just that.

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Why 'The Crow' Director Is Adamantly Against the Upcoming Remake: Alex Proyas, director of the 1994 film The Crow, says a remake would dishonor late star Brandon Lee, who died while making the film.