U.S. President Donald Trump gushed over Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Fox News interview aired during his Beijing trip last week, where Xi welcomed him with a red-carpet arrival, military pageantry and a visit to the Temple of Heaven. “He’s tall. Very tall,” Trump told Sean Hannity, adding that people in China “tend to be a little bit shorter.” The remarks carried Beijing’s summit imagery into American television after two days of tightly choreographed appearances alongside the Chinese leader.

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and thought he was shielding nearby sea turtles, his attorney said.

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

Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admissions, but the gains are far from uniform across individual elite institutions, according to a new analysis of federal data.

The Justice Department has accused Yale’s medical school of illegally considering race in its admissions decisions, the second medical school finding the agency has issued in eight days.

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

Three of the four teams currently battling it out in the NBA conference finals feature players of Asian American heritage, placing Filipino American guards Jordan Clarkson, Jared McCain and Dylan Harper alongside Vietnamese American forward Jaylin Williams on one of basketball’s biggest stages.

In Japan, breakfast has long been treated as a proper meal: rice, soup, fish and fermented foods eaten before work or school. Researchers now say those routines may align closely with how the body regulates metabolism across its internal 24-hour clock. The growing field of chrononutrition is drawing renewed attention to Japanese eating patterns that emphasized meal timing long before circadian biology entered mainstream nutrition science.

A social meetup for Wasians, promoted through community page Half Asian Spring, drew more than 3,000 people to Central Park’s Sheep Meadow on May 10, where attendees filmed street interviews, joined celebrity look-alike contests and celebrated shared experiences of growing up mixed-race. After videos from the event spread online, critics questioned why a gathering tied to broader “Half Asian” branding focused almost entirely on people who are part white.

NextShark is partnering with the Angels Baseball to help spotlight Asian culture, community and storytelling across multiple celebrations through their themed Heritage Nights during the 2026 season.