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Mamdani’s historic win signals new era for Indian Americans in US politics
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday...
Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport after 48 years in ‘country that I fought for’
A decorated Army veteran was forced to leave his family in Hawaii for South Korea on Monday after immigration officials ended his deferred a...
Detroit names street for Vincent Chin on 43rd anniversary of his death
Detroit officials unveiled a street sign honoring Vincent Chin on Monday, commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the Chinese American draftsm...
Bipartisan senators call for action against China’s forced labor transfers of Uyghurs
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are pushing for stronger enforcement measures to prevent China from sidestepping American forced labor r...
Why Iran’s Strait of Hormuz matters to Asia
Iran’s potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz could severely impact Asian economies heavily dependent on Middle Eastern energy supplies, ...
Washington’s Shasti Conrad makes history as 1st South Asian American DNC vice chair
Washington State Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad secured a historic victory on Friday, becoming the first South Asian American to hold ...
Texas bans Chinese citizens from owning property
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 17 into law, preventing citizens from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying and owni...
Zohran Mamdani poised to become NYC’s next mayor
New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is set to make history as the first Indian American and first Muslim mayor of New York City, defeating f...
Quarter of Americans now view the U.S. as a dictatorship: poll
A new poll shows that 24% of Americans believe the U.S. has become a dictatorship, marking a significant increase since President Donald Tru...
Trump admin orders social media checks for foreign students seeking visas
The State Department is requiring all foreign nationals seeking student and exchange visas to make their social media accounts public for go...
Visitors to WWII Japanese American incarceration sites urged to report ‘negative’ US history narratives
The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) has criticized signs installed at former World War II incarceration camps that ask visitors to ...
Orange County Viet Americans challenge Rep. Derek Tran over his response to ICE raids
Vietnamese American activists in Orange County’s Little Saigon are demanding Rep. Derek Tran take bolder action against federal immigration ...
Trump admin eyes travel ban for 36 more countries
The Trump administration is reportedly mulling potential entry restrictions affecting citizens from 36 new countries, substantially broadeni...
BTS’ Jungkook apologizes for wearing ‘Make Tokyo Great Again’ hat
BTS member Jungkook publicly apologized early Saturday (local time) following public backlash over his choice to wear a hat with a political...
Densho calls for greater education after Wyoming lawmaker’s use of anti-Japanese slur
Densho, a nonprofit organization that documents testimonies of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, emphasized the critical ...
Community rallies around family of Samoan designer killed in ‘No Kings’ protest
An outpouring of community support has emerged for the family of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, the 39-year-old Samoan fashion designer and former “P...
Trump orders ICE to increase deportations in Democratic cities
President Donald Trump has ordered federal immigration officials to focus deportation efforts on Democratic-controlled cities, intensifying ...
Asian American officials blast Senator Padilla’s forced removal from DHS briefing
Asian American lawmakers have expressed outrage over the detention and handcuffing of U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) during a news confer...
GOP congresswoman draws bipartisan rebuke over anti-Sikh remarks
Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) drew widespread criticism earlier this month after claiming that it was inappropriate for a Sikh religious leader ...
ICE deports more than 100 Chinese nationals in major op
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), led by its Dallas office, deported 122 Chinese nationals earlier this month as part of a...
Indian American professor sues UCSF over firing linked to Gaza posts
An academic physician at UC San Francisco has sued the university, claiming free speech violations after she was fired over social media pos...
BTS close to reuniting as 6 members finish military service
BTS moves closer to a complete reunion following Wednesday’s discharge of Jimin and Jungkook from the military, with just one remaining memb...
Trump claims ‘done deal’ with China … but is it, really?
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that a U.S.-China trade deal is “done” after two days of high-stakes negotiations in London, but ...
San Antonio elects its 1st Asian American woman, openly gay mayor
Gina Ortiz Jones defeated Rolando Pablos to become the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, making history as the city’s first Asian American woman,...
China, Philippines issue safety advisories for citizens amid LA protests
China and the Philippines have issued safety advisories via their Los Angeles consulates, warning their citizens to remain alert amid demons...
Ex-DOGE engineer says federal abuse was ‘relatively nonexistent’
Software developer Sahil Lavingia, who worked briefly for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claims that abuse within the feder...
Kash Patel’s jail threat to ICE protesters draws accusations of hypocrisy
FBI Director Kash Patel has faced backlash over his jail threat to anti-ICE protesters, with critics accusing the administration of applying...
Federal immigration raids in Los Angeles spark protests nationwide
Federal immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles on Friday culminating President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard tr...
Boston mayor Wu draws federal backlash for comparing masked ICE agents to neo-Nazis
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from federal officials after comparing masked ICE agents to “secret police” and suggesting similarit...
Will Andrew Yang and Elon Musk team up for a third party?
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has reportedly reached out to Elon Musk with a proposal to collaborate on building a th...
NYC Chinatown residents unveil alternative plan to relocate ‘mega jail’
Community advocates in Manhattan’s Chinatown unveiled a new proposal last week calling for the relocation of a controversial, borough-based ...
Japan bans flashy baby names like ‘Nike,’ ‘Pikachu’
Japan’s parliament passed legislation in late May establishing standards for children’s name pronunciations, addressing disputes over creati...
Dine-and-dasher gets 22 years for attack that put New York restaurant owner in a coma
A man who left a restaurant co-owner in Albany, New York, with severe brain injuries after attempting to skip out on his bill was sentenced ...
MIT class president barred from graduation after pro-Palestine speech
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 2025 class president was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after deliverin...
Chinese Harvard graduate’s speech sparks conservative controversy
A Chinese Harvard graduate’s commencement speech calling for “shared humanity” has ignited debate online as the Trump administration intensi...
Navy vet’s daughter remains in ICE detention despite US citizenship claims
A Filipino woman has been detained at a Georgia immigration facility since March after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested he...
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