The FBI is offering a new $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Hung Tien Pham, a Vietnamese man wanted in the execution-style killings of five people at a Boston Chinatown social club 35 years ago this month.

After years of legal battles over allegations of systematic racial bias, a northern California county has committed to overhauling its policing practices and submitting to independent oversight.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents continue aggressive door-to-door operations in Minnesota, using racial profiling to target Asian American communities in an escalating crackdown that has made over 2,000 arrests statewide since early December and over 10,000 arrests in Minneapolis alone.

Federal courts in Alabama have charged undocumented immigrants with Failure to Register under the Alien Immigration Act, a Japanese American internment era law that has rarely been used in modern immigration enforcement. The Trump administration reinterpreted the statute and ordered renewed enforcement of federal registration requirements when President Donald Trump assumed office in January last year. Court records show at least 27 people were charged under the law in Alabama in 2025, often after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and transferred out of state.

Veteran broadcast journalist John Yang delivered his final broadcast as anchor of PBS News Weekend on Jan. 11, confirming during the closing minute that the program would not continue. Yang said the show was ending because of the loss of federal funding for public media, cuts that followed a 2025 congressional move to reduce support distributed through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS has said the show will be replaced by lower-cost, single-topic weekly programs focused on areas such as science and global affairs.

Nearly one in five children in the U.S. now identifies as multiracial, according to a new analysis by data research organization My Asian Voice of the 2023 American Community Survey. The data show that 53% of Americans under age 18 are youths of color, a shift driven in large part by younger generations selecting more than one race on Census surveys. Multiracial identification among children stands at about 19%, compared with roughly 13% among the total U.S. population.

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in prison last week, the first of eight criminal verdicts stemming from his 2024 martial law crisis.

Asian Americans now make up nearly 10% of the Houston metropolitan area, a demographic shift researchers say has quietly reshaped one of the nation’s largest and most diverse cities, according to a study recently released by Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The Asian American Community Study documents how the population grew from roughly 1.8% in 1980 to more than 655,000 residents today across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Brazoria counties. Researchers describe the change as one of the most consequential demographic transformations in the region’s recent history.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi concluded a two-day bilateral summit in Nara on Jan. 14 with a closing moment few observers would have predicted. The two leaders, wearing matching blue uniforms, sat behind drum kits and performed “Golden” from Netflix’s “K-Pop Demon Hunters” and BTS’s “Dynamite.” The performance followed agreements on DNA testing for victims of the 1942 Chosei coalmine disaster, cooperation against scam crimes and the launch of economic security talks.

The FBI renewed its call last week for the extradition of Apollo Quiboloy, a Philippine religious leader charged in US court with sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion. Quiboloy founded the Kingdom of Jesus Christ church and is accused by federal prosecutors of using his authority to recruit and exploit female followers for sex. The appeal follows his September 2024 arrest in the Philippines, where he remains under local custody as extradition issues remain unresolved.