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For Asian Americans, ‘No Kings’ is about more than partisanship
Asian American leaders emerged as prominent voices in the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations on Saturday, where an estimated seven million...
Carl Samson
Economy
How Trump’s immigration policies will hit Asian workers hardest
The Trump administration’s immigration policies will reduce the U.S. labor force by 15.7 million workers by 2035, including 4.7 million from...
Trump’s approval plunges among Asian Americans: poll
Disapproval of President Donald Trump’s immigration approach has risen sharply among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ad...
Government
Visas revoked over criticism of Charlie Kirk
Six foreigners have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration over social media posts that officials say made derisive remarks or ...
Hung Cao’s Navy confirmation marks uneasy milestone for Asian representation
The swearing-in of Hung Cao as Under Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 3 marked a historic moment for Vietnamese American representation in fede...
Israel-Hamas deal sparks cautious optimism from Asian American leaders
President Donald Trump hailed the release of the final hostages held by Hamas as a “historic dawn of a new Middle East” after brokering a ce...
Ryan General
Trump and Beijing exchange fresh threats as trade war intensifies
President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to ban Chinese cooking oil imports in retaliation for Beijing’s refusal to buy American soybean...
China
Trump admin fires diplomat over romance with Chinese national
A foreign service officer lost his job Wednesday after acknowledging he concealed a romantic relationship with a Chinese woman alleged to ha...
Steven Cheung: Nobel Committee chose ‘politics over peace’ with Trump snub
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of putting “politics over peace” early Friday after ...
Beijing denounces Taiwan president for ‘prostituting himself’ to Trump
Beijing accused Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te of “prostituting himself” to foreign powers after he praised U.S. President Donald Trump dur...
Civil Rights
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...
Community
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...
Business
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Japan says its recognition of Palestinian state a matter of ‘when’
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba conveyed this week that recognizing Palestine as a state is “not a matter of ‘if,’ but of ‘when,’” ma...
South Koreans detail alleged mistreatment during ICE detention
South Korean workers detained in the largest-ever Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement operation at a Hyundai battery plant in...
Maria Ressa warns Trump’s US mirrors Philippines’ path to authoritarianism
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa said the erosion of democratic safeguards in the U.S. resembles the collapse of institutions in the P...
Trump, Xi to meet in South Korea next month
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have agreed to meet at a regional summit in South Korea in late October, building momentum toward res...
Education
University of California coalition sues Trump admin
Faculty, staff, student organizations and labor unions across the University of California (UC) system filed a federal lawsuit this week cha...
TikTok deal announced after months of stalled negotiations
President Donald Trump and Chinese officials have reached a framework to transfer TikTok’s American operations to U.S. control, breaking mon...
‘Civil war’ rhetoric surges after Charlie Kirk shooting
The shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a public appearance in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday, triggered an unprecedented surge ...
Trump admin rushes to mend ties with South Korea after Hyundai raid
The Trump administration is working to repair diplomatic relations with South Korea as the latter prepares to investigate alleged human righ...
Crime
Indian-origin motel manager beheaded in Dallas
A Dallas motel manager was decapitated by a coworker in one of the city’s most shocking killings in recent memory, local authorities say. Th...
‘Trump’s economy sucks’: Rep. Lieu slams admin on economy, civil rights
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has delivered scathing criticism of the administration in the past few weeks, most recently declaring that “Tr...
Trump’s China Initiative could soon make a comeback
The House Appropriations Committee approved legislation last Wednesday that would direct the Justice Department to reestablish an office foc...
South Korean workers return home after Georgia Hyundai raid
South Korean workers detained in last week’s immigration raid at a Hyundai manufacturing facility in Georgia returned home Thursday evening,...
Japan auto tariffs cut down to 15%
American consumers will see reduced costs for Japanese vehicles under a new trade agreement that cuts import tariffs from 27.5% to 15% on au...
Trump rants about China filling global leadership void he created
President Donald Trump lamented Friday that the U.S. has lost India and Russia to China, expressing frustration over a geopolitical realignm...
Editorial Staff
Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act ruled illegal by appeals court
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan gang members, d...
Eric Trump gets tossed from sumo ring in Japan
Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, was hoisted and spun out of a sumo ring by a grand champion in Tokyo on Sept. 1, in a staged stun...
China signals new world order as Trump brushes off ‘conspiracy’
China showcased itself as an alternative to U.S.-led global order in its historic parade this week as Trump dismissed concerns over deepenin...
Trump plans Supreme Court challenge to ruling that most of his tariffs are illegal
The White House is expected to appeal a federal court decision that declared most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs unlawful, with an admi...
Era of cheap Asian goods ends as Trump closes tariff loophole
President Donald Trump’s elimination of the de minimis exemption last week officially ended nearly a century of duty-free imports under $800...
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