“Only the wise Wizard Kash could uncover the truth and save King Donald from the tangle of lies.” — “The Plot Against the King”

The month of August saw international student arrivals from Asia fall by 24%, while overall global entries declined 19%, the steepest recorded drop outside pandemic years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.

Current and former Asian American elected officials in San Francisco have joined forces to create the city’s first formal leadership training program for aspiring politicians.

Beijing accused Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te of “prostituting himself” to foreign powers after he praised U.S. President Donald Trump during a recent interview on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” Lai, who is set to deliver his National Day address in Taipei on Friday, told the conservative U.S. radio program that Trump would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he could persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping to renounce any military action against Taiwan. In response, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said Lai was “squandering the flesh and blood of the people” and “throwing in his lot with foreign forces.”

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani marked the second anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack by condemning Hamas’ “war crime” while accusing Israel of waging a “genocidal war” in Gaza. The remarks drew swift criticism from Israeli officials and New York politicians, with Israel’s Foreign Ministry accusing him of spreading “Hamas’ fake genocide campaign.”

South Korea’s tense thriller “No Other Choice,” Thailand’s surreal “A Useful Ghost” and Taiwan’s “Left-Handed Girl” headline Asia’s submissions to the 98th Academy Awards for best international feature film. They are joined by Vietnam’s “Mua do (Red Rain),” Japan’s “Kokuho,” Singapore’s “Stranger Eyes,” Cambodia’s “Tenement,” China’s “Dead to Rights,” Indonesia’s “Sore: Wife from the Future,” Hong Kong’s “The Last Dance,” India’s “Homebound,” Nepal’s “Anjila” and the Philippines’ “Magellan” confirmed ahead of the Academy’s submission deadline on Wednesday.

Harvard University has appointed Kareem Khubchandani, a South Asian drag artist and associate professor at Tufts University, as the 2025–26 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor in its Studies of Gender and Sexuality program. His classes will examine ethnographic methods in queer research and the political dimensions of drag through shows such as “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was named one of three laureates for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. He shares the recognition with U.S. scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell for discovering how specialized immune cells, known as regulatory T cells, prevent the body from attacking its own tissues. The discovery established a foundation for therapies that modulate the immune system in conditions such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

An undocumented Chinese national died at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Calexico, California, on Sept. 29 after suffering an apparent seizure, marking the second death in the agency’s custody in the state within two weeks.

A federal appeals court ruled last Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violates the Constitution, delivering another major defeat to his immigration agenda.