Immigrants with no criminal records now form the majority of people detained nationwide, according to the latest ICE data. The change contradicts the Trump administration’s repeated assurance that its enforcement efforts target only “the worst of the worst.”

Air pollution from oil and gas operations causes about 91,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, with Asians, Black, Hispanic and Native American communities bearing the greatest health burdens, a new study found.

Tattoo artists in South Korea will soon be able to work legally for the first time after lawmakers voted 195 to zero on Sept. 25 to pass the Tattooist Act.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani fired back at President Donald Trump after Trump threatened Monday to block federal support if Mamdani wins the November election. The city relies on $9.6 billion in federal aid for schools, housing programs and public safety, a share that represents more than 8% of its budget.

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate his executive order that ends birthright citizenship for children of parents in the country illegally or temporarily. The petition, filed on Friday, challenges a series of lower court rulings that blocked the order before it could take effect. If the justices agree to hear the case, they will decide whether the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all children born on U.S. soil.

Romantic partners are significantly more likely to share psychiatric diagnoses, a new study shows, and their children face double the risk when both parents have the same condition. Published in Nature Human Behaviour last month, the analysis of nearly 15 million people across Taiwan, Denmark and Sweden found strong spousal overlap in disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anxiety, with the effect growing stronger in younger generations.

Job interviews are increasingly being infiltrated by artificial intelligence, with 72% of recruiters reporting everything from face-swapping video tricks to resumes written entirely by machines, a 2025 Software Finder survey has found. The study, which surveyed 874 HR professionals, recorded the use of AI across both application documents and live interview manipulation.

Ken Mochizuki, the Seattle author, journalist and educator who introduced Japanese American incarceration to generations of students through children’s literature, died Sept. 20 at his home in Maple Valley, Washington. He was 71 and had esophageal cancer. His body of work, spanning books, journalism and the arts, placed Asian American history at the center of American storytelling.

Filmmaker Lulu Wang has been tapped to helm “Audition,” the upcoming adaptation of Katie Kitamura’s novel starring Lucy Liu and Charles Melton. The film marks Wang’s first return to feature directing since “The Farewell” in 2019. Liu will lead as a celebrated actress whose world unravels when confronted by a young man claiming to be her son, played by Melton.

The Portland Trail Blazers are being sold in a record-breaking $4.25 billion deal signed on Sept. 13, with Panda Express founders Andrew and Peggy Cherng joining the buyer group.