‘No Other Choice,’ ‘A Useful Ghost’ lead Asia’s Oscar submissions

South Korea’s tense thriller “No Other Choice,” Thailand’s surreal “A Useful Ghost” and Taiwan’s “Left-Handed Girl” headline Asia’s submissi...

Harvard appoints South Asian drag queen to teach on race and performance

Harvard University has appointed Kareem Khubchandani, a South Asian drag artist and associate professor at Tufts University, as the 2025–26 ...

Japanese scientist awarded Nobel Prize for immune tolerance discovery

Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was named one of three laureates for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. He sha...

Chinese national dies in ICE custody

An undocumented Chinese national died at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Calexico, California, on Sept. 2...

Trump suffers another defeat on birthright citizenship

A federal appeals court ruled last Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violates the Cons...

Duckworth leads pushback against National Guard deployment in Chicago

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is leading aggressive congressional opposition to President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops...

Vietnam urged to free journalist jailed for 5 years over government criticism

Five years after Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang was arrested at her home in Ho Chi Minh City, an international coalition of human rig...

Hawaiian activist among hundreds detained after Israeli interception of Gaza aid

Jasmine Ikeda, an activist born in Hawaii, was among 479 people detained when Israeli forces intercepted a flotilla carrying humanitarian ai...

Apple caves to Trump by removing ICEBlock app

An app used to report possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement sightings was removed from Apple’s App Store on Oct. 2 after the Trump ad...

LA restaurant Great White accused of segregating Asian diners

A viral video posted by a content creator last week has drawn scrutiny to Los Angeles restaurant Great White after she alleged that Asian cu...

Japan to confirm its 1st woman leader

Japan is set to appoint its first female prime minister after Sanae Takaichi won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership elec...

Mamdani faces pushback over plan to end gifted program

Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism for proposing to end gifted programs for kindergartners in New York City ...

Kash Patel fired longtime FBI employee over Pride flag display

FBI Director Kash Patel, one of the Trump administration’s highest ranking Asian American officials, reportedly fired a longtime bureau empl...

South Asian film screenings in Canada targeted with arson, shootings

A movie theater west of Toronto has stopped showing South Asian films after experiencing an arson attack and a shooting within seven days — ...

Asian American support for Trump plummets, new poll shows

A 63-percentage-point drop in President Donald Trump’s approval among Asian American voters between July and September marks one of the shar...

Asian American lawmakers spar over blame as shutdown enters 2nd week

Lawmakers showed little progress over the weekend toward ending the government shutdown that began last Wednesday. Catch up: The federal gov...

Simu Liu speaks out against AI-generated ‘actress’

Chinese Canadian star Simu Liu has spoken out against Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress” signed by a London talent agency that also re...

Why Trump’s vote-by-mail ban threatens Asian American political power

President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to ban vote-by-mail through executive order have drawn sharp constitutional challenges from civil ri...

Vietnam to be represented by its 1st trans woman candidate at Miss Universe 2025

Longtime entertainer Huong Giang Nguyen is set to become the first transgender woman to represent Vietnam in the Miss Universe competition t...

‘Project Runway’ crowns its 1st trans winner

After more than a decade of auditioning for the show, Veejay Floresca was crowned “Project Runway” Season 21 champion on Sept. 25. The Filip...

Asian authors face growing censorship as book bans surge in US schools

More than 6,800 books were banned from American public schools during the 2024-25 school year, including numerous works by Asian authors in ...

UC professor publishes dataset mapping Asian American literary canon

A new dataset containing 1,900 entries aims to reveal which works scholars consider “Asian American” and which voices may be missing from th...

Margaret Cho calls out Nancy Mace: ‘Every time you open your mouth, trans people die’

Comedian Margaret Cho issued a blistering rebuke of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on social media last Sunday, accusing her of causing harm to tr...

Asian comedians split over joining controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival

Asian comedians are split over Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival, which began on Friday and is scheduled to continue through Oct. 9 as p...

Arthur Sze named first Asian American poet laureate

Arthur Sze has been named the 25th U.S. poet laureate, becoming the first Asian American to hold the post. “Distinctly American”: The Librar...

Bipartisan backlash erupts as Philadelphia raises Chinese flag

Philadelphia officials raised the Chinese flag over City Hall on Tuesday, triggering widespread criticism from lawmakers who argued it legit...

North Korea uses rare UN appearance to disavow nuclear disarmament

North Korea used a rare high-level appearance at the United Nations to assert that its nuclear weapons are non-negotiable and central to its...

Asian American lawmakers rip Hegseth’s ‘woke’ military crackdown

Asian American lawmakers, including combat veteran Tammy Duckworth, criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his controversial address...

Immigrants with no criminal records now the majority in US immigration detention

Immigrants with no criminal records now form the majority of people detained nationwide, according to the latest ICE data. The change contra...

Asians face highest risk of early death from oil and gas air pollution, study shows

Air pollution from oil and gas operations causes about 91,000 premature deaths in the United States each year, with Asians, Black, Hispanic ...

South Korea legalizes tattoo industry after unanimous vote

Tattoo artists in South Korea will soon be able to work legally for the first time after lawmakers voted 195 to zero on Sept. 25 to pass the...

Mamdani fires back after Trump threatens to cut NYC federal aid if he wins

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani fired back at President Donald Trump after Trump threatened Monday to block federal support i...

Trump asks SCOTUS to uphold birthright citizenship restrictions

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate his executive order that ends birthright citizenship for children of parents...

Couples more likely to share same mental illnesses, study finds

Romantic partners are significantly more likely to share psychiatric diagnoses, a new study shows, and their children face double the risk w...

Job recruiters face growing flood of AI-generated resumes and deepfakes

Job interviews are increasingly being infiltrated by artificial intelligence, with 72% of recruiters reporting everything from face-swapping...

Ken Mochizuki, pioneering voice in Asian American children’s literature, dies at 71

Ken Mochizuki, the Seattle author, journalist and educator who introduced Japanese American incarceration to generations of students through...