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By Ryan General
Kamala Harris has yet to say whether she will seek the White House again, but Democratic voters are already putting her at the front of the party’s emerging 2028 field. Nearly two years after losing the 2024 presidential election to Republican Donald Trump, the former vice president has led recent national surveys testing potential Democratic contenders.

By Carl Samson
Former Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Nirav Shah has joined Maine Democrats’ scramble to replace Graham Platner, who suspended his Senate campaign last Wednesday amid a rape allegation he denies and the party facing a July 27 deadline to pick a nominee.

By Carl Samson
Four Colombian nationals were sentenced in federal court Tuesday for their roles in a multistate burglary ring that targeted Asian American business owners across Oregon and Washington state.

By Carl Samson
A Dallas man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime charge for shooting three Korean American women at a northwest Dallas hair salon in 2022.

By Carl Samson
Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for Tennessee governor, is facing backlash over a campaign ad that saw her crush fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant while vowing to “stop communist China.”

By Carl Samson
A top Turning Point Action official asked a Vietnamese American state lawmaker whether he could speak English during a social media dispute last week, drawing condemnation and exposing tension within Arizona’s Republican Party.

By Ryan General
A monthlong exhibition at Monterey Park’s Bruggemeyer Library is using America’s 250th anniversary to highlight Asian American military service across nearly two centuries of U.S. history. “Duty, Honor, Country, Courage,” which opened on July 3 in the Library Friends Room, features veterans’ stories spanning from the Civil War to the present.

By Ryan General
More than 20 years after “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” launched a studio comedy franchise led by two Asian American actors, a fourth film is moving ahead at the screenplay stage with its core creative team returning. While attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, producer Greg Shapiro told Variety that the franchise’s actors and writers are coming back.

By Carl Samson
A federal search warrant unsealed this week reveals two previously unreported attacks near California’s Oceanside Pier more than a year ago, in which three men allegedly assaulted and seriously injured an Asian American man and two Camp Pendleton Marines while shouting racial slurs.
Elon Musk has declared that Americans who do not love their country are traitors who should be exiled, escalating a Fourth of July exchange on his social media platform.
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