In a first for the Philippines, the nation’s Supreme Court has opened the door for same-sex couples to claim shared property ownership, a breakthrough for LGBTQ+ rights in the heavily Catholic nation where such unions remain outlawed.

Authorities in Los Angeles County are alerting residents to stay vigilant at banks and ATMs as robbers could exploit Lunar New Year traditions to identify victims carrying large cash sums.

The Trump administration is finally ending its controversial immigration operation in Minnesota, a weeks-long crackdown that claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens and interrupted those of thousands more.

Asian American star athletes Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu each claimed silver medals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in separate finals over the past two days in northern Italy. Kim, 25, finished second in the women’s snowboard halfpipe in Livigno with a score of 88.00, edged by South Korea’s Choi Ga-on late in the competition. Gu, 22, earned her silver in women’s freeski slopestyle after posting 86.58 in her opening run, narrowly behind Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud.

Questions over redactions, prosecutorial decisions and victim protections dominated Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, where Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) joined other members of Congress in grilling Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files during several hours of contentious testimony.

Alexander Zhou, a 9-year-old Chinese American fourth grader at New York City’s Special Music School at Kaufman Music Center, went viral after performing Moritz Moszkowski’s Etincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 on NPR’s Tiny Desk.

Beong-Soo Kim has been named the 13th president of the University of Southern California (USC), becoming the first Asian American and the institution’s first leader of color to hold the position permanently.

Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng addressed criticism this week after recently discovering a 2021 video from Japanese American chef J. Kenji López-Alt, in which he described Ng’s Uncle Roger accent as “yellowface.”

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.