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Mamdani faces pushback over plan to end gifted program

Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism for proposing to end gifted programs for kindergartners in New York City ...

Kash Patel fired longtime FBI employee over Pride flag display

FBI Director Kash Patel, one of the Trump administration’s highest ranking Asian American officials, reportedly fired a longtime bureau empl...

South Asian film screenings in Canada targeted with arson, shootings

A movie theater west of Toronto has stopped showing South Asian films after experiencing an arson attack and a shooting within seven days — ...

Asian American support for Trump plummets, new poll shows

A 63-percentage-point drop in President Donald Trump’s approval among Asian American voters between July and September marks one of the shar...

Asian American lawmakers spar over blame as shutdown enters 2nd week

Lawmakers showed little progress over the weekend toward ending the government shutdown that began last Wednesday. Catch up: The federal gov...

Why Trump’s vote-by-mail ban threatens Asian American political power

President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to ban vote-by-mail through executive order have drawn sharp constitutional challenges from civil ri...

Asian authors face growing censorship as book bans surge in US schools

More than 6,800 books were banned from American public schools during the 2024-25 school year, including numerous works by Asian authors in ...

UC professor publishes dataset mapping Asian American literary canon

A new dataset containing 1,900 entries aims to reveal which works scholars consider “Asian American” and which voices may be missing from th...

Arthur Sze named first Asian American poet laureate

Arthur Sze has been named the 25th U.S. poet laureate, becoming the first Asian American to hold the post. “Distinctly American”: The Librar...

Bipartisan backlash erupts as Philadelphia raises Chinese flag

Philadelphia officials raised the Chinese flag over City Hall on Tuesday, triggering widespread criticism from lawmakers who argued it legit...

Asian American lawmakers rip Hegseth’s ‘woke’ military crackdown

Asian American lawmakers, including combat veteran Tammy Duckworth, criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his controversial address...

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ started without K-pop in it, director reveals

“KPop Demon Hunters” director Maggie Kang recently revealed that her Netflix animated hit underwent significant changes during development, ...

Japan says its recognition of Palestinian state a matter of ‘when’

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba conveyed this week that recognizing Palestine as a state is “not a matter of ‘if,’ but of ‘when,’” ma...

11-year-old boy robbed after teens threaten to shoot him in Philly’s Chinatown

A group of teenagers robbed an 11-year-old boy of his iPhone and hundreds of dollars following threats of gun violence in Philadelphia’s Chi...

Trump admin ordered to restore $500 million in UCLA research grants

A San Francisco federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must restore $500 million in research funding to University of Cali...

South Koreans detail alleged mistreatment during ICE detention

South Korean workers detained in the largest-ever Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement operation at a Hyundai battery plant in...

Trial begins for SF man accused of fatally beating 88-year-old Asian woman

After nearly seven years, the trial of a man accused of killing an elderly Asian American woman began Monday with the defendant representing...

Native Hawaiian group aims to buy back ancestral land

A Native Hawaiian community organization is working to acquire more than 55,000 acres of ancestral land from a Hong Kong-based billionaire i...

Buttigieg disputes sexual orientation concerns after Harris’ revelation

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has expressed surprise at former Vice President Kamala Harris’ revelation that his sexual ori...

Trump, Xi to meet in South Korea next month

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed to meet at a regional summit in South Korea in late October, building momentum toward res...

‘Muslims don’t belong here’: Texas man accused of threatening Mamdani

A Texas man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hate crime charges for allegedly threatening New York State Assemblyman and New York City mayora...

Wells Fargo banker released from China exit ban after diplomatic push

A Shanghai-born Wells Fargo managing director who has been stuck in China under an exit ban for months has reportedly been freed and returne...

University of California coalition sues Trump admin

Faculty, staff, student organizations and labor unions across the University of California (UC) system filed a federal lawsuit this week cha...

Wisconsin State Rep. Hong enters governor’s race as progressive ‘wild card’

Wisconsin State Rep. Francesca Hong (D-76) announced her gubernatorial candidacy Wednesday, positioning herself as a progressive “wild card”...

Hmong American Democrat wins special election to fill seat of slain Minnesota lawmaker

A former city councilman whose family fled war-torn Laos has won the Minnesota House seat left vacant by an assassinated Democratic leader, ...

Patel clashes with Dems over Epstein, Kirk in congressional oversight hearings

FBI Director Kash Patel delivered an aggressive testimony this week across two days of congressional hearings, sparring with Democratic lawm...

UK Sikhs demand justice after alleged hate crime sexual assault

An alleged racially motivated sexual assault against a British-born Sikh woman has sparked community outrage and calls for justice in West M...

Pennsylvania police bust South American theft group targeting Asian business owners

Authorities in Pennsylvania have dismantled a sophisticated burglary ring of at least 12 Colombian nationals from Queens, New York, who syst...

Mamdani finally secures Hochul’s endorsement

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Sunday, declaring in a New York Times op-ed that she has co...

TikTok deal announced after months of stalled negotiations

President Donald Trump and Chinese officials have reached a framework to transfer TikTok’s American operations to U.S. control, breaking mon...

Trump admin rushes to mend ties with South Korea after Hyundai raid

The Trump administration is working to repair diplomatic relations with South Korea as the latter prepares to investigate alleged human righ...

Hong Kong lawmakers reject own government’s same-sex partnership bill

Hong Kong legislators delivered an unprecedented rejection of their own government last Wednesday, voting down a bill that would have extend...

Bay Area jewelry store owner fires weapon to stop smash-and-grab robbery

A Milpitas jewelry store owner successfully deterred 10 to 15 individuals from a robbery attempt by firing a legally owned weapon last week,...

Rep. Subramanyam condemns nationwide Hindu temple attacks

U.S. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) recently condemned the growing number of attacks on Hindu temples nationwide, declaring that “hate has n...

‘Trump’s economy sucks’: Rep. Lieu slams admin on economy, civil rights

U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has delivered scathing criticism of the administration in the past few weeks, most recently declaring that “Tr...

Patel under fire as ousted FBI officials sue, conservatives question leadership

FBI Director Kash Patel is facing heightened criticism from conservative allies and a federal lawsuit by three dismissed senior officials al...