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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ wins best animated feature, song at 2026 Critics Choice Awards

“KPop Demon Hunters” won best animated feature and best song for “Golden” at the 31st Critics Choice Awards on Jan. 4 at Barker Hangar in Sa...

Filipino American airman hailed as hero after Christmas highway rescue

A Filipino American U.S. Air Force airman helped save a couple and their two dogs after their SUV slid off a snow-covered stretch of Highway...

Despite Trump funding cuts, Japanese American National Museum continues DEI work

The Japanese American National Museum has lost more than $1 million in federal funding after declining to end its diversity, equity and incl...

Asian countires warn of precedent after Trump’s seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro

The Trump administration’s Jan. 3 operation to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro triggered swift reactions across Asia, where govern...

Over 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are AI slop, study finds

More than 20% of videos recommended to brand-new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated clips known as “AI slop,” according to a study ...

World-first surgery in China preserves severed ear by grafting it onto patient’s foot

Surgeons in eastern China have reported a world-first case in which a woman’s severed ear was grafted onto her foot to preserve its blood su...

Anti-Asian sign targeting pharmacy in Sydney prompts investigation

Police in Sydney, Australia, are investigating anti-Asian signage placed outside a local pharmacy after CCTV footage captured two men postin...

Amanda Nguyen says Blue Origin flight backlash led to depression

Vietnamese American advocate Amanda Nguyen said the intense online backlash following Blue Origin’s all-women spaceflight in April 2025 push...

Japanese artist blasts DHS for using his art in deportation post

Hiroshi Nagai, a 79-year-old Japanese illustrator known for nostalgic coastal scenes, says the Department of Homeland Security used his artw...

Kaohly Her sworn in as St. Paul’s 1st woman and Asian American mayor

Former state representative Kaohly Her was sworn in Friday in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming the first woman and the first Asian American to ...

Slant-eye mockery brings Hmong American child to tears in viral video

An emotional video showing a Hmong American child describing racist bullying at school has gone viral as attention grows around the persiste...

ICE records show $300 million expansion of surveillance tools under Trump

Federal records show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanding its enforcement toolkit with more than $300 million earmarked across...

Half of peer reviewers now use AI: survey

Half of scientific peer reviewers now rely on artificial intelligence to evaluate manuscripts, yet 75% of researchers report they cannot tel...

Ramaswamy condemns GOP intolerance at Turning Point USA conference

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy used a speech at AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 20 to condemn rising intolerance within the Rep...

Sulu set to return for ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ series finale

Hikaru Sulu will appear in the series finale of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” bringing one of television’s most consequential Asian Ameri...

America felt ‘great again’ for only 1 in 10 adults in 2025, survey finds

Only 10% of U.S. adults described 2025 as a “great” year, according to a Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans. Another 39% rated it “ju...

Lung cancer rising among Asian women nonsmokers in Northern California

Asian women who have never smoked in Northern California are experiencing a sharp and underrecognized rise in lung cancer, eight years of Ka...

Bowen Yang bids farewell to ‘SNL’ after eight barrier-breaking years

Bowen Yang closed his chapter on “Saturday Night Live” on Dec. 20, ending an eight-year tenure with a final performance. In a holiday sketch...

Andrew Schulz emerges as the weakest link in ‘Street Fighter’ live-action cast

As the “Street Fighter” film enters its marketing phase following the teaser trailer debut at the 2025 Game Awards, renewed scrutiny has fal...

Vietnamese nationals lead record growth in South Korea’s foreign population

Vietnamese residents have become the fastest-growing foreign community in South Korea, with 270,000 living in the country. Recent official d...

Taiwan’s population drops for 23rd consecutive month as births fall to record low

Taiwan’s population fell again in November, marking 23 straight months of decline with only 7,946 births recorded. The Ministry of the Inter...

Finland PM apologizes to Asian nations after lawmakers’ slant-eye gestures

Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo issued formal apologies to Japan, China and South Korea through embassy channels on Wednesday after a ...

Vietnam’s martial arts continue elite streak at SEA Games 33

Vietnam delivered a historic karate performance at the 33rd Southeast Asian Games by finishing first in the discipline after securing six go...

Ramaswamy attempts to reconnect to skeptical GOP base with moon base proposal

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wrote a New York Times essay published Wednesday promoting a large-scale national project, incl...

Jimmy Lai convicted as Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy party votes to disband

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement sustained its most serious legal and political setbacks in years over the weekend. Jimmy Lai, the outspok...

Epstein emails: Larry Summer’s pursuit of the Asian woman he called ‘Peril’

Emails released last month by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee show former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president L...

Christine Choy, filmmaker behind ‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?,’ dies at 73

Christine Choy, the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker who helped force a national reckoning with anti-Asian violence, died Dec. 7 in New...

How a side-eye at H Mart set off a TikTok creator pile-on

When TikTok creator Madeline posted a video about side-eyeing white shoppers at H Mart, she described it as a reflection on respect and live...

Finnish lawmakers post slanted-eye gestures after Miss Finland loses title

Finnish lawmakers from the right-wing Finns Party posted images of themselves making slanted-eye gestures after Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce wa...

Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years over Terra collapse

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison on Dec. 11 following his guilty plea in the collaps...

International students self-censor amid fear of visa consequences, survey finds

International students in the U.S. are self-censoring, avoiding political activity and limiting their public presence due to fear of surveil...

Ultra-rich 0.001% control triple the wealth of poorest half of humanity: report

Global wealth has reached a level of concentration that researchers describe as extreme, according to the World Inequality Report 2026. The ...

Miss Finland condemned after photo shows alleged racist gesture toward Asians

Reigning Miss Finland Sarah Dzafce faced intense backlash after a photo surfaced online showing her pulling back the corners of her eyes, a ...

Japan scientist develops AI system that turns brain activity into sentences

A scientist in Japan has created a technique that uses fMRI brain scans and artificial intelligence to generate sentences describing what a ...

Husband of China’s first cryogenic patient criticized for new relationship

The husband in China’s first cryogenic preservation case faced criticism in Jinan last month after acknowledging he has a partner while his ...

Astronaut Jonny Kim returns to Earth after 245-day ISS research mission

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, the first Korean American astronaut to fly to space, returned to Earth Tuesday after completing a 245-day mission ...