After years in the works, Japanese steakhouse/sushi bar chain Wu’s House has opened a new location in Naperville. But it’s not the only new addition to the city’s restaurant scene. An Indiana-based coffee shop is settling into town after opening a Naperville cafe earlier this fall while Lisle has welcomed a new sandwich spot. Wu’s House has opened at 2703 Beebe Drive. The Japanese restaurant chain, which also has locations in Orland Park, Evergreen Park, Mokena, Palos Park and Merrillville, Indiana, officially launched its first Naperville location on Dec. 13, according to owner Michael Wu. Open for lunch and dinner, the restaurant offers a wide-ranging menu. Patrons can order everything from Hibachi-style meals and sushi rolls to noodles and fried rice. Wu’s House started seeking city approvals to expand into Naperville just over two years ago . It broke ground on Beebe Drive in 2023, Wu said. Its hours are 11:30 a.m to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 9 p.m. Sundays. MOTW Coffee & Pastries is nearly two and a half months into launching a Naperville franchise at 4931 Route 59. So far, the shop has exceeded expectations, company owner Sajjad Shah said. “Naperville is obviously a very affluent and diverse community,” he said Thursday. “There’s a lot of different people that live there, so there’s this nice little melting pot of customers.” Shah, 33, launched MOTW Coffee & Pastries in Indianapolis in 2021. After opening three more locations in Indiana, MOTW Coffee began to expand into Illinois earlier this year, starting with a location in Lombard . Naperville is MOTW Coffee’s second Illinois cafe. Two more are planned for Skokie and Schaumburg, Shah said. The former is expected to open early next year, while the latter should open in about three to four months, Shah said. The company stems from an Instagram page that Shah started in the wake of 9/11 called “Muslims of the World.” Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York,” Shah’s page was created to combat Islamophobia by sharing the personal stories of Muslim people on social media, he said. His page grew to amass hundreds of thousands of followers and even landed Shah a book deal. But there was more Shah wanted to do, he said. The missing piece was a physical component to the brand he’d built. So MOTW Coffee & Pastries was born. It serves specialty lattes — biscoff, vanilla coconut, peanut butter and cardamom, for instance — as well as traditional lattes, refreshers, espresso, hot tea and chai. MOTW Coffee’s Naperville cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sundays. Gourmet sandwich shop SubKO is now serving up Philly cheesesteaks, meatball subs and other savory selections at 1600 Maple Ave. in Lisle. SubKO officially opened on Dec. 20. Its operating hours are 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily. tkenny@chicagotribune.com
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On February 28, 1947, the Kuomintang (KMT) government led by Chiang Kai-shek launched a harsh crackdown in Taiwan by indiscriminately gunning down protesters. On that fateful day, protesters had gathered to denounce two years of chaos and corruption under the KMT after the Allies had handed Taiwan back to China. The violent crackdown, known as the 228 Massacre, cost thousands of lives and ushered in a period known as the White Terror. The legacy of Chiang’s dictatorship continues to shape the island’s polarized society and security policies today. At the most recent annual memorial of the 228 Massacre in Memorial Park, the guest of honor was Chiang Wan-an, the young KMT mayor of Taipei and the alleged (illegitimate) great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek. Ma Ying-jeou, 70, the KMT president from 2008 to 2016, led the procession hand in hand with a survivor of the killings, and laid a wreath both at the start and end of the ceremony. Chiang Wan-an, 45, apologized to the family members of the victims who sat before him for his speech, framing those massacred as “our elders” who needed to be remembered, instead of reflecting on his family’s and party’s role as perpetrators. The bitter irony of the ceremony being led by two leading KMT members was not lost on a group of young protesters. A vast police presence prevented them from storming the altar as they had done the previous year, but the message on their paper sheets was unchanged: “There is no solution for the matter, forgiveness is impossible.” “The matter” was written in Taiwanese rather than Mandarin, underscoring that they spoke for the generations of Taiwanese who had lived on the island before the KMT takeover. Martial law under the KMT only ended in 1987 amid a wave of democratizations in the region, paving the way for the first direct parliamentary elections in 1992 and the first direct presidential elections in 1996. The Tangwai , or “outside the party” movement, propelled this change and emerged in 1986 as the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which has held Taiwan’s presidency since 2016. Over the last eight years, the DPP has moved toward delivering transitional justice, albeit incrementally. A Present Past It is surprising that the KMT remains one of the two major political parties in Taiwan. It is as if Francisco Franco’s Movimiento Nacional, abolished in 1977, was still a viable player in Spanish politics today. By voluntarily opening up the political system, the KMT managed “to have a democratic second life,” said Professor Ming-sho Ho of National Taiwan University. At a more fundamental level, the battle over historical memory on display at the remembrance ceremony reflects different conceptions of identity. Many KMT supporters seem to live in the past – an era in which the Republic of China (ROC), as Taiwan is still officially called, was on standby, ready one day to take back the mainland from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is in this period that the notion of one undivided China encompassing both sides of the Taiwan Strait is anchored, a notion still held by the KMT but disputed by the DPP, which views the island as already being an independent and sovereign state. The descendants of the million Chinese who fled the mainland with Chiang Kai-shek form much of the KMT base. Known as waishengren , literally “outside province person,” they are the children and grandchildren of the soldiers, police officers, bureaucrats, and teachers who were regime loyalists. Only in the 1990s were the people in these professions not “encouraged” to join the party. Hou Yu-ih, 67, the mayor of New Taipei, effectively the greater metropolitan region of the capital, and the KMT candidate for the January 2024 presidential elections, started his long career in the police force in the last decade of the dictatorship. The base, however, wasn’t happy with Hou because, in the end, he is Taiwanese. He was born to parents who lived in Taiwan before 1945 and so is not considered a waishengren. That’s why Jaw Shaw-kong, 73, whose father fought the communists on the mainland in the KMT army, was selected as the party’s candidate for vice president. Hou sought to keep his distance from the old guard of One China believers in the party but Jaw, an old KMT stalwart with impeccable nationalist credentials, was still calling for reunification with China in the early 1990s – under Taipei. The argument of the “Deep Blue” supporters, so called after the KMT’s colors, is that people on both sides of the strait are at their core racially and culturally the same . This line of thought implies, as does China , that resisting unification with the zuguo , or ancestral land, makes no sense. This belief among older generations is unsurprising given that the government instilled the notion in the population until the 1980s. The One China narrative has a direct impact on policy preferences. In 2022, Jaw was part of the legion of DPP antagonists that derided the progressives’ attempt to strengthen Taiwan’s defense against China. He questioned the usefulness of President Tsai Ing-wen’s signature defense reform to extend military service from four to 12 months, asking : “Is it just like Ukraine, with just a few more days of delay and many more deaths?” Hou more recently went as far as calling the January elections a choice between war and peace , making it the main topic of debate in the campaign. The broader narrative that the United States cannot be trusted to come to the island’s aid – “abandoning [Taiwan] once again,” as one KMT academic put it – plays neatly into the hands of mainland disinformation pushing the idea that Taiwan, as Ma echoed right before the elections , could never win a war with powerful China. The DPP serving as the pro-military party is a remarkable reversal of positions. It was born out of the anti-militarist movement, after all. Yet it was Tsai, dressed in military fatigues for drills, who led the charge to increase war-readiness as the regional balance of power changed drastically. Taiwan still had air superiority until the late 1990s and Japan until a decade later, but Beijing has had the upper hand militarily for at least the last decade and a half, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Pivotal Choices Taiwan’s security policy has not been spared entanglement in the DPP-KMT divide. With pivotal defense choices needed in the next four to eight years, this is a significant vulnerability. Few examples illustrate the furious contestation over defense policy better than Taiwan’s indigenous submarine project. Slated to cost $16 billion over a decade, or about 85 percent of the 2024 defense budget, it will produce eight diesel-powered vessels. It may be an appealing trump card on paper, but according to a former Pentagon official involved in defense procurement for Taiwan the submarine is based on 50-year-old technology. An untested design, the submarines have no air-independent propulsion (AIP) and no pump jet, making them easier to track. As such, there are legitimate reasons to ask whether the secretive program is indeed a DPP vanity project, as the KMT has portrayed it. The opposition party has vowed to delve into allegations of misspending and has proposed new investigative powers to do so. The DPP lost its majority in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s parliament, in January’s elections. The dispute over Taiwan’s submarine program is part of a broader debate about the direction Taiwan’s military strategy should take. Should it sustain its traditional posture, trying to counter China with comparable assets – ships, planes, and tanks – or should it opt for the “porcupine strategy,” which seeks to turn the island into an impenetrable fortress full of mobile and shoulder-launched anti-vessel and anti-aircraft missiles. Taiwan’s 2023 Defense Report , issued by the Ministry of National Defense, reflected the conundrum by failing to make a clear choice. It was full of references to the porcupine strategy, but at the same time referred, unrealistically, to “joint sea control” and listed desired purchases of F-16s and Abrams tanks. Given China’s overwhelming firepower, these assets would be taken out within the first hours of engagement, according to Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund. When I asked the incoming vice president, Hsiao Bi-khim, whether there was still disagreement about Taiwan’s military strategy and procurement, she told me that was “old news,” and that the island would take the asymmetric route. One retired general suggested the military leadership thought differently. Presented with Hsiao’s quote, he retorted: “They are just politicians, they don’t understand the military.” A KMT foreign affairs observer also spoke of a rift. “All high-ranking officers have doubts,” he said. “The DPP gets a lot of pushback not to abandon traditional defense.” Lamenting the DPP’s dismissal of dissenting voices, he added: “They call them Chiang Kai-shek’s army, trained by the KMT. They get no respect, no honor.” Taiwan’s most senior generals do hail from the Chiang dictatorship, and they are steeped in the idea of attacking China rather than defending against it. The father of the asymmetric doctrine and chief of the general staff from 2017 to 2019, Lee Hsi-ming, is tellingly now persona non grata at the defense ministry. The KMT’s Burden The problem for the KMT is the opposite: its close affiliation with the old guard risks putting the party out of touch with the emerging Taiwanese identity. “We still do not appeal to the young generation,” a political assistant to the KMT’s chair, Eric Chu, told me. “Only three to five percent of the electorate is Deep Blue, pro-China, but they account for nearly half of the KMT membership.” Chu has led a major revamp of the party to attract more young people into its ranks. His main reform has been to break the power of the retired military officers who have traditionally dominated the party. They long operated independently as their own central branch, with their own funding and intra-party channels. The chapter, called Huang Fuxing, has been brought under the authority of local city branches, which will allow for the selection of candidates with broader appeal to the run for the 2028 presidential and parliamentary elections. However, it remains to be seen whether Chu’s reforms will go far enough to overcome other obstacles to young people joining the KMT. In the words of Johnny Chiang, the party’s leader in the Legislative Yuan: “We’re too old. The party is too old ... Compared with the other two major parties, which have their origins in Taiwan, the KMT has a very long and complicated history, and that is sometimes a burden.” A KMT staffer who hosted the party’s regular happy hour for the foreign press was more blunt. “It’s easier to come out as gay than as a KMT member,” she said. Much of the apprehension among younger voters comes together in the very name of the party. The KMT’s official name is still the Chinese Nationalist Party, implying, as did Chu’s political assistant, that it serves all huaren , the people of the Chinese ancestral land. And there is a powerful faction in the KMT centered around former President Ma that wants to keep it that way. Its regular interventions in the public discourse on cross-strait relations and Chinese/Taiwanese identity, and those of commentators on outlets such as ChinaTimes and TVBS that share its viewpoint, prevent the party from moving forward. A costly case in point was Hou feeling compelled, three days before the election, to publicly reject Ma’s remarks about Taiwan not standing a chance against China. Ma later met Xi Jinping for an audience at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 10. The Bold Newcomer The main battleground for the youth vote is the digital realm, on messaging apps such as LINE and WeChat, and video-sharing platforms such as TikTok and YouTube. The newcomer in parliament, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), jumped in the polls in the last weeks before the elections thanks to anti-establishment messages and funny clips of its populist candidate, Ko Wen-je, that were widely shared online. As KMT legislative candidate Wennie Wu put it: “Taiwanese people love scandal and gossip, and algorithms give you what you like. We’re just not seen as cool, so it is really hard for us to get to the youth. “The running joke among us is that we’re the army party while they excel in the air war,” she said, referring to the KMT’s Mao-inspired grassroots approach versus the TPP’s online strategy. Without much of a set policy agenda, the TPP won eight out of 113 seats in Taiwan’s legislature, mostly on the persona of Ko. With the KMT and DPP holding 52 and 51 seats, respectively, the TPP could be decisive in passing a DPP-proposed defense budget and readiness reforms. A Clean Break? Since Chu took the reins at the KMT two and a half years ago, a host of new entities have been rolled out to rejuvenate the party and broaden its appeal. There is now a Youth League, a Department of Youth, a Youth Working Group, KMT Studio, a New Media Department and, just before the elections, the launch of KMT Girls . Such image-building efforts, though, are largely cosmetic and unlikely on their own to excite youngsters about a party that projects itself as center-right conservative. A clean break is needed. Typical members with a pro-China worldview, such as the legislator Wu Sz-huai , are in their 70s and will have died out in a decade or two. If the KMT wants to retain its position as one of Taiwan’s main political parties, more fundamental measures are needed in the socio-historical and identity realm. 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The Ghana Para Powerlifting Association (GPPA) hosted its 2024 National Championship in Accra on December 3, 2024, in celebration of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. ‘ The event, organized in collaboration with the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana (NPC-Ghana), brought together over 50 para-powerlifters from five regions: Kumasi, Accra, Tamale, Cape Coast, and Sunyani. Ignatius Elletey, a key member of the Ghana Para-Powerlifting Association, highlighted that the championship served a dual purpose: to rank athletes for the upcoming 2025 season and future competitions, and to build a comprehensive database of para-powerlifters in the country. Elletey emphasized the importance of this event in providing athletes with an opportunity to showcase their abilities, addressing the previous limitation in the selection process for international competitions. He further urged corporate bodies and Ghanaians to support disability sports, which he described as a vital sector that promotes inclusivity and provides life-changing opportunities for persons with disabilities. “Disability sports give a future and life to persons with disabilities. It is the only industry that operates inclusively,” he said. Elletey called for increased funding and sponsorship to ensure that athletes receive the best training ahead of major events, particularly the 2028 Paralympic Games in the USA. This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated under the theme “Amplifying the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future,” was marked by the para-powerlifting competition as part of the broader activities in Ghana. The event highlighted the ongoing efforts to empower persons with disabilities and promote inclusivity in sports.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be U.S. attorney general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name. Bondi is a longtime Trump ally and was one of his lawyers during his first impeachment trial when he was accused — but not convicted — of abusing his power as he tried to condition U.S. military assistance to Ukraine on that country investigating then-former Vice President Joe Biden. She has been a chair at the America First Policy Institute, a think tank set up by former Trump administration staffers. Bondi is from Tampa and spent more than 18 years as a prosecutor. She was Florida’s first female attorney general. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general amid continued fallout over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt on his ability to be confirmed as the nation's chief federal law enforcement officer. The announcement caps a turbulent eight-day period in which Trump sought to capitalize on his decisive election win to force Senate Republicans to accept provocative selections like Gaetz, who had been investigated by the Justice Department before being tapped last week to lead it. The decision could heighten scrutiny on other controversial Trump nominees, including Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth , who faces sexual assault allegations that he denies. “While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz, a Florida Republican who one day earlier met with senators in an effort to win their support, said in a statement. “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump’s DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1," he added. Hours later, Gaetz posted on social media that he looks “forward to continuing the fight to save our country,” adding, “Just maybe from a different post.” Trump, in a social media post, said: “I greatly appreciate the recent efforts of Matt Gaetz in seeking approval to be Attorney General. He was doing very well but, at the same time, did not want to be a distraction for the Administration, for which he has much respect. Matt has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!” He did not immediately announce a new selection. Last week, he named personal lawyers Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and D. John Sauer to senior roles in the department. Another possible contender, Matt Whitaker, was announced Wednesday as the U.S. ambassador to NATO. The withdrawal, just a week after the pick was announced, averts what was shaping up to be a pitched confirmation fight that would have tested how far Senate Republicans were willing to go to support Trump’s Cabinet picks. The selection of the fierce Trump ally over well-regarded veteran lawyers whose names had circulated as possible contenders stirred concern for the Justice Department's independence at a time when Trump has openly threatened to seek retribution against political adversaries. It underscored the premium Trump places on personal loyalty and reflected the president-elect's desire to have a disruptor lead a Justice Department that for years investigated and ultimately indicted him. In the Senate, deeply skeptical lawmakers sought more information about Justice Department and congressional investigations into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls, which Gaetz has denied. Meanwhile, Justice Department lawyers were taken aback by the pick of a partisan lawmaker with limited legal experience who has echoed Trump's claims of a weaponized criminal justice system. As Gaetz sought to lock down Senate support, concern over the sex trafficking allegations showed no signs of abating. In recent days, an attorney for two women said his clients told House Ethics Committee investigators that Gaetz paid them for sex on multiple occasions beginning in 2017, when Gaetz was a Florida congressman. One of the women testified she saw Gaetz having sex with a 17-year-old at a party in Florida in 2017, according to the attorney, Joel Leppard. Leppard has said that his client testified she didn’t think Gaetz knew the girl was underage, stopped their relationship when he found out and did not resume it until after she turned 18. The age of consent in Florida is 18. "They’re grateful for the opportunity to move forward with their lives,” Leppard said Thursday of his clients. “They’re hoping that this brings final closure for all the parties involved.” Gaetz has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. The Justice Department’s investigation ended last year with no charges against him. Gaetz’s political future is uncertain. He had abruptly resigned his congressional seat upon being selected as attorney general, a move seen as a way to shut down the ethics investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. He did win reelection in November for the new Congress, which convenes Jan. 3, 2025, but he said in his resignation letter last week to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he did not intend to take the oath of office. He transmitted a similar letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the state launched a special election process to fill the vacancy. Republicans on the House Ethics Committee declined this week to release the panel's findings, over objections from Democrats in a split vote. But the committee did agree to finish its work and is scheduled to meet again Dec. 5 to discuss the matter. As word of Gaetz's decision spread across the Capitol, Republican senators seemed divided. Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who served with Gaetz in the House, called it a “positive move." Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Gaetz “put country first and I am pleased with his decision.” Others said they had hoped Gaetz could have overhauled the department. Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a close ally of Trump, said he was “disappointed. I like Matt and I think he would have changed the way DOJ is run.” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he hoped that Trump will pick someone “equally as tenacious and equally as committed to rooting out and eliminating bias and politicization at the DOJ.” Gaetz is not the only Trump pick facing congressional scrutiny over past allegations. A detailed investigative police report made public Wednesday shows that a woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Hegseth, the former Fox News host now tapped to lead the Pentagon, after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave. “The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared,” Hegseth told reporters Thursday at the Capitol, where he was meeting with senators to build support for his nomination. Associated Press writers Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Adriana Gomez Licon contributed to this report. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
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Border measures aimed at responding to Trump's tariff threat begin to take effectBy Ross Cristantiello Multiple people fell through ice in Arlington and Shrewsbury on Monday, prompting responses from local authorities. Just before 7:30 a.m., Shrewsbury police responded to reports that two people had fallen through the ice at Dean Park Pond, the department said in a release. Police officers and firefighters from Shrewsbury were joined by EMS personnel from Worcester at the scene. Upon arrival, they found two people who had fallen through the ice, but were skating toward the shoreline. They had been ice skating on the pond and fell through somewhere near the middle, officials said. First responders helped them to the shoreline and transported them to local hospitals for treatment. The Arlington Fire Department said in a social media post that firefighters responded to an ice rescue call Monday at the Arlington Reservoir. “The only safe ice is indoor ice at the rink,” the Arlington Fire Department said in its statement. A Lexington official told Boston 25 News that a teenage boy fell through the ice at the reservoir around 4 p.m. The boy’s father was with him, but was unable to pull him out. First responders from Arlington and Lexington successfully saved the boy. He was reportedly evaluated by paramedics and is expected to recover. Arlington and Lexington officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Shrewsbury police offered a series of tips to avoid dangerous situations like these. Clear, blue ice is strong and usually safe, while white, opaque ice is weaker and thinner, they said. Gray or dark ice is unsafe, as this indicates that the surface is melting. People should check for cracks, slush, or open water before venturing out onto any ice, officials said. They should avoid going near any areas with moving water. Carrying ice picks, ropes, and whistles is encouraged. People going out on the ice should never do so alone, they added. Ross Cristantiello Ross Cristantiello, a general assignment news reporter for Boston.com since 2022, covers local politics, crime, the environment, and more. Boston.com Today Sign up to receive the latest headlines in your inbox each morning. Be civil. Be kind.
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