As China welcomes the Year of the Horse, an unexpected blonde wizard from the “Harry Potter” franchise has emerged as the nation’s unofficial symbol of luck.

With a Friday deadline looming for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding, AAPI advocates are pressing lawmakers to withhold billions from immigration enforcement.

Asian American athletes at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics responded after President Donald Trump called Team USA freeski competitor Hunter Hess a “loser” in a social media post during the opening week of the Games in northern Italy. Trump’s criticism followed remarks Hess made that the actions of ICE agents do not reflect the country they represent. “I’m representing my friends and family back home, the people that represented it before me, all the things that I believe are good about the U.S. I just think if it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it,” Hess said at a press conference in Milan on Friday morning.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) used the protection of the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause on Tuesday to read into the congressional record the names of six “wealthy, powerful men” men he said were improperly redacted from the Jeffrey Epstein files. The disclosure came after he and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) spent two hours reviewing unredacted materials at a Justice Department office Monday. Khanna said the names appeared in documents that should have been public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated release of roughly 3 million pages with only narrow victim-related redactions.

The largest Asian supermarket in the Nashville area opened Friday morning in Antioch as part of the Tennessee Nashville Chinatown development. Pan Asia’s new flagship store at 5255 Hickory Hollow Parkway carries more than 10,000 Asian food and household products and serves as the first completed building in a project planned to total about 100,000 square feet along Interstate 24. Developers say the full buildout will include three buildings across nearly five acres and could generate up to 500 permanent jobs once completed.

Authorities have identified the three people killed after a Mercedes sedan crashed into a 99 Ranch Market in Westwood, Los Angeles, last week.

A December 2024 podcast appearance by Texas State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) has ignited controversy after clips of his remarks about minority communities and their “shared oppressor” spread across social media.

Donald Trump’s video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes goes beyond an assault on one Black couple.

The son of prominent Asian American leaders killed at their Hillsborough, New Jersey, residence last September has been hit with murder charges.

“Super Sentai,” the long-running Japanese franchise that became the backbone of “Power Rangers,” aired its latest season finale on Feb. 8. The episode ended “No.1 Sentai Gozyuger” and marked 51 consecutive years in which the franchise delivered annual superhero series without interruption. The run began in 1975 and provided source footage for “Power Rangers” starting in 1993.