Seven immigrants detained at California’s largest ICE facility filed a federal class-action lawsuit last week against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging constitutionally inadequate care and punitive conditions at the California City Detention Facility in the Mojave Desert.

FBI Director Kash Patel faces another round of backlash following reports that his girlfriend receives an elite FBI security detail despite the couple maintaining separate residences.

Japan is weighing a plan to triple its departure tax from 1,000 yen ($6.40) to 3,000 yen ($19.20) per person as record visitor numbers fuel growing concerns about overtourism’s toll on local communities and ecosystems.

A Chinese woman arrested last week after crossing the Rio Grande wept in federal court as she explained her desperate journey to support her son and sick mother.

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools develop at an unprecedented rate, it is becoming more and more difficult for people to tell digital faces from real ones. Participants of a recent study by researchers from the University of Reading and partner institutions correctly identified AI generated faces only 31% of the time even when looking for obvious flaws.

More than 200 rare works from Korea’s most significant private art donation opened to the public on Saturday at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., where they will remain on view through Feb. 22, 2026. The exhibition brings pieces once held exclusively in the late Lee Kun Hee’s personal collection into a major international museum for the first time. Visitors are viewing objects that shaped Korea’s cultural history across centuries and were previously accessible only within Korea’s national institutions.

A global review published by The Lancet reports that many familiar convenience foods, including instant noodles, sweetened beverages and packaged snacks, are linked to higher risks of chronic disease when eaten in large amounts.

A new study decisively challenges the historical portrayal of Bao Si, a figure long scapegoated for the collapse of the Western Zhou Dynasty. By presenting climate data from stalagmites and sediment layers covering the 820 to 700 BC period, the research shifts the focus from gendered blame to environmental stress.

A new study from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California finds that the hosts of the top 100 podcasts of 2024 were overwhelmingly white and male, revealing a persistent lack of diversity in one of the most influential digital media platforms.

International superstar Michelle Yeoh said in a new interview on Wednesday that she grew up believing she should be “seen and not heard,” explaining that her childhood was shaped by expectations common in many Asian households.