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Indian American candidate announces bid to replace Graham Platner

Former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Nirav Shah has joined Maine Democrats’ scramble to replace Graham Platne...

4 sentenced in burglary ring that targeted Asian American business owners in the Northwest

Four Colombian nationals were sentenced in federal court Tuesday for their roles in a multistate burglary ring that targeted Asian American ...

Dallas man gets 15 years for 2022 hate crime shooting at Korean hair salon

A Dallas man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime charge for shooting three Korean American women at a ...

Sen. Blackburn’s anti-China ad smashes fortune cookies that aren’t Chinese

Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Tennessee governor, is facing backlash over a campaign ad that saw her crush fortu...

Turning Point official’s ‘speak English’ remark to Vietnamese American GOP lawmaker sparks backlash

A top Turning Point Action official asked a Vietnamese American state lawmaker whether he could speak English during a social media dispute ...

Warrant reveals ‘skinhead’ attack on Asian man, Marines near San Diego area pier

A federal search warrant unsealed this week reveals two previously unreported attacks near California’s Oceanside Pier more than a year ago,...

Trump admin sues 99 Ranch over discrimination against non-Chinese workers

The Trump administration is suing 99 Ranch Market’s parent company, alleging that it systematically fired, underpaid and denied promotions t...

ICE arrests over 10,000 in five days

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 10,000 people over five days at the end of June, roughly doubling its daily arr...

Pastor freed from China after Trump’s appeal to Xi

Pastor Jin Mingri, the founder of Beijing’s underground Zion Church, has been released after nine months in detention and reunited with fami...

Birthright citizenship loss still leaves Trump’s immigration agenda largely intact

The Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship has not closed off Republican effort...

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s birthright citizenship order

The Supreme Court affirmed Tuesday that children born in the U.S. are automatically citizens, rejecting President Donald Trump’s order denyi...

San Francisco’s Chinatown opens world’s 1st Chinese queer museum

A new museum in San Francisco’s Chinatown is giving Chinese and Chinese American LGBTQ+ stories a public home for the first time. A new spac...

Rep. Lieu suggests Trump’s ‘erratic behavior’ due to terminal illness

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) questioned President Donald Trump’s health Wednesday after the White House abruptly canceled a bill signing ceremon...

Rep. Khanna grills GOP witness over his call to denaturalize Chinese Americans

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) confronted a congressional witness Thursday over past social media posts calling for the denaturalization of Chine...

Trump’s crackdown on Chinese researchers is China Initiative 2.0, lawyers say

Immigration attorneys and civil rights advocates believe the Trump administration has quietly built what amounts to a revamped China Initiat...

Supreme Court clears way for Trump to end TPS

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to allow the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Hait...

Mamdani-backed candidates sweep NY primaries, signaling leftward shift for Dems

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsed candidates swept three congressional primaries on Tuesday, putting democratic socialists on tr...

Trump attacks Supreme Court ahead of birthright citizenship ruling

President Donald Trump’s attacks on the Supreme Court are colliding with a slate of pending rulings, including on birthright citizenship, th...

Burglaries targeting Asian Americans in Oregon persist despite arrests, prosecutions

Eugene police and community advocates are raising new alarms about organized burglaries targeting Asian American households in Oregon, with ...

Nepal becomes 1st country in South Asia to legalize same-sex marriage

Nepal’s Supreme Court has issued a final ruling affirming marriage equality as a constitutional right, making the Himalayan nation the first...

New initiative aims to get more AAPIs into the boardroom

The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) has launched a $1.5 million initiative aimed at placing more Asian American and Pacific Islander execut...

Chicago man charged with hate crime for burning a cross

A Chicago man is scheduled for a court status hearing today on felony hate crime and arson charges after he admitted to setting a cross on f...

Ex-Rep. Michelle Steel becomes 1st Korean American woman US ambassador to Seoul

The Senate confirmed former Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) as the next U.S. ambassador to South Korea on June 17, putting a Korean American ...

Vincent Chin honored 44 years after his death

Detroit marked the 44th anniversary of Vincent Chin’s murder over the weekend, with a ceremony honoring the civil rights movement his death ...

Minnesota Supreme Court gets its 1st Asian American justice

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appointed Judge Reynaldo “Reggie” Aligada Jr. to the Minnesota Supreme Court last month, making him the first Asian ...

Asian Americans slam $70 billion ICE funding that continues ‘terrorizing our communities’

Asian American lawmakers and advocacy groups condemned Congress’ approval of a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, saying it gives ...

Frisco voters elect unity mayor amid months of anti-Indian, anti-Muslim hostility

Voters in Frisco, Texas, have elected a unity candidate for mayor, rejecting a rival whose campaign centered on anti-Muslim rhetoric that ha...

Chinese immigrants now NYC’s largest foreign-born group: report

For the first time in more than three decades, Chinese immigrants have surpassed Dominicans as New York City’s largest foreign-born group, a...

UC faculty push to restore SAT, ACT requirements amid math crisis

More than 1,500 University of California faculty members have signed open letters calling on the UC system to restore standardized testing r...

How Georgia’s emergency redistricting impacts Asian American voters

Georgia’s Republican-led legislature is set to redraw the state’s political maps in a June 17 special session, a move believed to roll back ...

Asian American groups condemn Chow acquittal, urge communities to confront anti-Black racism

Several Asian American civil rights and advocacy organizations have spoken out following the acquittal of Rick Chow in the fatal shooting of...

Maine could soon see its first Asian American governor

Dr. Nirav Shah, a former public health official who guided Maine through the COVID-19 pandemic, has taken the lead in the state’s Democratic...

Karen Read exposes Massachusetts cops’ anti-Asian texts in new lawsuit

Multiple anti-Asian slurs are among the racist text messages at the center of Karen Read’s new lawsuit against two Massachusetts police depa...

Lawsuit seeks to strike down blood quantum rule for Hawaiian homestead leases

A conservative law firm has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the blood-quantum requirement that determines eligibility for Native Hawaiia...

Raman advances to November, setting up historic Bass showdown

Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has clinched a spot in the November mayoral election, eliminating Republican Spencer Pratt to se...

Anti-Indian hate escalates in North Texas city amid housing fallout, viral flag video

A man tore an Indian national flag outside Frisco City Hall last week as crowds shouted anti-India slogans, the latest flashpoint in months ...