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Government
Trump nominates another Asian American lawyer for appellate bench
President Donald Trump has nominated Eric Tung, a Jones Day partner based in Los Angeles, for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ni...
Carl Samson
Rep. Ro Khanna leads bipartisan push for full release of Epstein files
Rep. Ro Khanna of California is leading a bipartisan effort to force the Trump administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all ...
Ryan General
Crime
Kash Patel takes heat as Trump admin battles Epstein files firestorm
FBI Director Kash Patel has found himself under scrutiny after the Trump administration’s abrupt reversal on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein f...
Home
Americans’ views on immigration have dramatically shifted, poll shows
A record 79% of Americans now consider immigration beneficial to the country, reversing from 2024 when 55% wanted immigration reduced, accor...
Civil Rights
Judge shields 150,000 newborns from Trump’s birthright citizenship crackdown
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship from taking effect nationwide, us...
China
China silent amid reports of Trump’s threat to bomb Beijing
China has yet to publicly address reports of leaked audio in which President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Beijing over Taiwan, though sea...
Trump admin to ban Chinese purchases of US farmland
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced its plan to block Chinese and foreign purchases of U.S. farmland over national security concer...
Economy
Trump announces new Asian tariffs after failing to secure trade deals by deadline
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he had sent letters to the heads of several Asian countries, informing them of a new ro...
Community
What Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ means for Asian Americans
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed by President Donald Trump into law on July 4, is a sweeping tax and spending package with sig...
ICE detention funding now 5 times higher than federal prison system budget
Congress has approved a historic $170 billion immigration enforcement package that includes $45 billion to nearly double the nation’s capaci...
Trump admin expands efforts to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship
The Justice Department has issued new guidelines directing attorneys to aggressively pursue stripping citizenship from naturalized Americans...
Trump warns ‘Mr Japan’ of steep tariffs ahead of July 9 deadline
President Donald Trump said he plans to send a letter to “Mr Japan” warning of renewed U.S. tariffs if no trade agreement is reached by July...
Chinese social media rallies behind Elon Musk amid Trump feud
Chinese social media users are casting Elon Musk as a heroic figure amid his escalating feud with President Donald Trump over the administra...
Asian American senators slam Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ after senate passage
Asian American senators condemned President Donald Trump’s tax and spending package Tuesday after it cleared the Senate in a 50-50 vote, wit...
SCOTUS hands Trump major win on birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday to curtail federal judges’ authority to issue nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump’s ...
Asian American lawyers continue constitutional fight despite SCOTUS setback
Asian American legal organizations are pressing forward with their constitutional challenge against President Donald Trump’s birthright citi...
COVID-19 coverage spurred rise in anti-Asian hate, especially among Trump supporters: study
A recent study published in American Politics Research finds a clear link between COVID-19 news coverage and declining favorability toward A...
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...
Education
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...
Asian American History
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 ...
Asia
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...
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 ...
How ILRC’s ‘Red Cards’ can help protect immigrants during ICE encounters
As immigration enforcement actions grow under the Trump administration, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s “Red Cards” remain a practical...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Trump defends blocking Harvard’s foreign students amid legal challenge
President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his administration’s decision to block Harvard University from enrolling international students am...
Business
Tesla’s reputation plunges in US brand survey
Tesla has dropped to 95th place in the 2025 Axios Harris Poll 100, a steep fall from 8th in 2021, reflecting growing disapproval from Americ...
Judge rules Trump admin’s deportation of immigrants to South Sudan violated court order
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration breached his court order when it sent immigrants — including from Asian countr...
Deaf Mongolian man faces deportation without due process
A deaf Mongolian man has spent over 80 days detained at California’s Otay Mesa Detention Center without seeing an immigration judge or acces...
Survey finds most Asian Americans see Trump as a ‘dangerous dictator’
A majority of Asian Americans agree with most Americans in viewing President Donald Trump as a “dangerous dictator” whose power should be li...
Vietnam approves $1.5 billion Trump Org development amid trade negotiations
The Vietnamese government has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its local partner to build golf courses, hotels...
Supreme Court weighs Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship
Supreme Court justices on Thursday expressed concerns about President Donald Trump’s attempt to enforce his executive order limiting birthri...
Uncertainties linger as US, China agree to 90-day tariff truce
President Donald Trump and China reached a dramatic de-escalation in their trade war, slashing tariffs by 115 percentage points effective We...
Global survey: opinion of US has plummeted since Trump’s return
Global perceptions of the U.S. have deteriorated dramatically since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, with China overtaking in popul...
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