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Asian family stabbed at Texas Sam's Club in COVID-related hate attack
A man attacked an Asian family at a Sam's Club in Midland, Texas, in an incident later prosecuted as a federal hate crime. Prosecutors said the attacker believed the family was Chinese and blamed them for COVID-19, though the victims were Burmese.