An international student’s assault on a Chicago train last month has reignited fears about safety and belonging for foreign nationals studying in the country.

The Tibetan spiritual leader secured his first Grammy Award on Sunday for Best Audiobook, Narration and Storytelling Recording with “Meditations: The Reflections Of His Holiness The  Dalai Lama” at the 68th annual ceremony.

“KPop Demon Hunters” was the most-streamed movie of 2025 after logging 20.5 billion minutes watched in the U.S., according to Nielsen data released in January. The total equals roughly 207 million complete views of the Netflix animated feature, which premiered in June of last year. No other film released in 2025 even reached around 15 billion minutes watched, based on Nielsen’s annual rankings.

The U.S. Army posthumously promoted seven Japanese American World War II soldiers during a commissioning ceremony in Honolulu on Jan. 26, correcting a decision made more than eight decades earlier. Each man had completed most of the requirements for an officer commission through the University of Hawaii ROTC program before being dismissed following Pearl Harbor due to their ancestry. They later joined the 100th Infantry Battalion or the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and died in combat in Italy or France in 1944.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moved Ta Eh Doh Lah from Minnesota to a Texas detention facility earlier this month, she was breastfeeding her five-month-old baby and awaiting specialized heart care. In a sharply worded Jan. 23 order, federal judge Michael J. Davis ruled that her detention was unlawful and ordered her immediate return to Minnesota and release from custody. The court emphasized that Lah, a refugee admitted in 2024, has no criminal record and had complied fully with U.S. immigration law.

A nationwide coalition of 1,025 organizations is calling on Congress to halt funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, arguing that federal immigration enforcement has caused measurable harm in U.S. communities. In a letter sent Jan. 27 to lawmakers in Washington, the groups urged Congress to deny any additional funding and reverse recent appropriations. The letter specifically points to fatal encounters involving immigration agents and deaths in detention as grounds for defunding.

A transient man on trial for bludgeoning four sleeping men to death in Manhattan’s Chinatown in 2019 asserted an insanity defense last week, with his lawyer arguing he heard voices commanding him to kill 40 people or die himself.

Asian American lawmakers are demanding accountability after federal immigration officers fatally shot Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who served veterans, in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Connecticut State Atty. Gen. William Tong has been targeted by racist comments after posting a video of himself with a dog on Instagram last week.

The “moving sofa problem,” a puzzle that has remained unresolved since it was introduced in 1966 and memorably illustrated in the sitcom Friends, may finally have an answer. Baek Jin-eon, a 31-year-old research fellow at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, has produced a proof showing that no shape with an area greater than approximately 2.2195 square units, measured relative to a corridor of unit width, can complete the turn. The research was named one of the top 10 mathematical breakthroughs of 2025 by Scientific American.