Carl Samson

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 ...

Business lobbying, court ruling rattle Trump’s green card crackdown

A federal court ruling and an unreported corporate lobbying effort have thrown the Trump administration’s green card crackdown into fresh un...

Man who bludgeoned 4 to death in NYC Chinatown sentenced

A Manhattan judge sentenced the man convicted of fatally beating four unhoused men with a metal bar in Chinatown to 40 years to life in stat...

Trump admin walks back green card memo as Asian backlogs loom

The Trump administration is downplaying a new green card policy memo that immigration advocates warn could push hundreds of thousands of ...

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate won’t disavow past calls to abolish police

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past calls t...

Evacuations lift near California’s Little Saigon as chemical spill probe widens

Orange County authorities lifted all evacuation orders Tuesday night after declaring that a damaged chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facil...

Andy Kim pepper-sprayed by ICE at Newark detention protest

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Monday as he tried to defuse a confrontat...

Taiwanese novel is 1st Mandarin Chinese work to win International Booker Prize

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King’s queer colonial romance has become the first Mandarin Chinese work to win one of fiction’s most pres...

Suicides in ICE detention hit two-decade high

The number of immigrants dying by suicide in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has climbed to its worst point in at least ...

Jayapal slams GOP resolution excluding naturalized citizens like her from federal office

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is pushing back against a Republican colleague’s constitutional amendment targeting naturalized American...

Santa Ana unveils memorial for Chinatown destroyed by city-ordered fire

The city of Santa Ana, California, dedicated a memorial monument Saturday to its historic Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant community that the ...

Man who threw rock at endangered seal in Maui says he was ‘protecting turtles’

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and though...

Bronx man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC

The Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown has been convicted of illegally serving as an agen...

Asian American enrollment up at elite colleges after affirmative action ruling, but unevenly

Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme...

DOJ says Yale med discriminated against Asian, white applicants

The Justice Department has accused Yale’s medical school of illegally considering race in its admissions decisions, the second medical schoo...

5 Vietnamese American candidates compete for California’s 45th Congressional District seat

An almost entirely Vietnamese American field of candidates is competing for California’s 45th Congressional District seat, anchored by Orang...

The hantavirus outbreak isn’t being blamed on Asians, but AAPI communities are watching anyway

The hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic unfolds against the backdrop of lingering COVID-era trauma in Asian American co...

Pelosi praises SF Supervisor Chan as ‘great’ Congress pick, boosting AAPI hopes

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has voiced support for Supervisor Connie Chan, saying she would be a “great member” of Congress and expressing ...