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Washington Post column that disparaged Indian food prompts backlash, a correction and an apology

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  "Top Chef" and "Taste the Nation" host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi tweeted screenshots of the column and asked: "What in the white nonsense is this?" Gene Weingarten, columnist and humorist at The Washington Post, in Washington, D.C., in 2014. The Washington Post this week published a correction and a rebuttal to a humor column after backlash over the writer's take on Indian food as "the only ethnic food in the world based entirely on one spice." In his weekly column in The Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten penned a list of foods he doesn't like to sarcastically dispute criticism that he "like a toddler I seem to categorically dislike, and whine about, many foods." Along with Old Bay seasoning, balsamic vinegar, bleu cheese ("rhymes with 'eeuuu cheese'"), he listed Indian food. "The Indian subcontinent has vastly enriched the world, giving us chess, buttons, the mathematical concept of z

Manchester City soccer player Benjamin Mendy charged with rape, sexual assault

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  The charges are related to "three complainants over the age of 16 and are alleged to have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021," police said. Benjamin Mendy of Manchester City during a game against Tottenham Hotspur on Aug. 15 in London. Manchester City soccer player Benjamin Mendy was charged in England on Thursday with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The charges are related to "three complainants over the age of 16 and are alleged to have taken place between October 2020 and August 2021," the Cheshire Constabulary police department said in a news release. Mendy’s agent did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment. Mendy, who is French and lives in the village of Prestbury in Cheshire, was taken into custody and is scheduled to appear in court Friday. It's not clear if he has obtained an attorney. The 27-year-old athlete is a defender for Manchester City. The team said Thursday that he was

'Shang-Chi' cast, director on how film's tensions mirror family devotion of Asian diaspora

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  “Especially in a movie like this, I need to find any emotional throughline that I connect with, and family is definitely one of those things,” director Destin Daniel Cretton said. Awkwafina and Simu Liu in "Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." While filming the Marvel movie “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” director Destin Daniel Cretton said he and actor Tony Leung, who portrays villain Wenwu, discussed a profoundly difficult question: Does Wenwu, a man fiercely depicted as a Machiavellian megalomaniac, love his children? “Tony said, ‘100 percent yes,’” Cretton recalled to NBC Asian America. “It was something that he realized, over the course of playing the character, that this character truly does love his kids. But he doesn't know how to.” Wenwu is the father to two pivotal characters in the film — one being the estranged, underground fighter Xialing, who has become an established, shadowy force in Macao. The other is, of course, the film’s superher