Carl Samson

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate won’t disavow past calls to abolish police

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past calls t...

Evacuations lift near California’s Little Saigon as chemical spill probe widens

Orange County authorities lifted all evacuation orders Tuesday night after declaring that a damaged chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facil...

Andy Kim pepper-sprayed by ICE at Newark detention protest

U.S. Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) was pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents Monday as he tried to defuse a confrontat...

Taiwanese novel is 1st Mandarin Chinese work to win International Booker Prize

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King’s queer colonial romance has become the first Mandarin Chinese work to win one of fiction’s most pres...

Suicides in ICE detention hit two-decade high

The number of immigrants dying by suicide in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has climbed to its worst point in at least ...

Jayapal slams GOP resolution excluding naturalized citizens like her from federal office

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is pushing back against a Republican colleague’s constitutional amendment targeting naturalized American...

Santa Ana unveils memorial for Chinatown destroyed by city-ordered fire

The city of Santa Ana, California, dedicated a memorial monument Saturday to its historic Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant community that the ...

Man who threw rock at endangered seal in Maui says he was ‘protecting turtles’

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and though...

Bronx man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC

The Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown has been convicted of illegally serving as an agen...

Asian American enrollment up at elite colleges after affirmative action ruling, but unevenly

Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme...

DOJ says Yale med discriminated against Asian, white applicants

The Justice Department has accused Yale’s medical school of illegally considering race in its admissions decisions, the second medical schoo...

5 Vietnamese American candidates compete for California’s 45th Congressional District seat

An almost entirely Vietnamese American field of candidates is competing for California’s 45th Congressional District seat, anchored by Orang...

The hantavirus outbreak isn’t being blamed on Asians, but AAPI communities are watching anyway

The hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic unfolds against the backdrop of lingering COVID-era trauma in Asian American co...

Pelosi praises SF Supervisor Chan as ‘great’ Congress pick, boosting AAPI hopes

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has voiced support for Supervisor Connie Chan, saying she would be a “great member” of Congress and expressing ...

DOJ says UCLA med school favored Black, Hispanic applicants over Asian, white students

The David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, violated federal law by favoring Black and Hispanic applic...

Asian immigrants weigh exit plans as legal ground shifts

Court rulings, executive orders and enforcement campaigns are making immigration status feel increasingly conditional for Asian immigrants a...

3 years after Allen mall shooting, families seek justice and healing

Three years after a gunman killed eight people at Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, community members are still reeling while victim...

Trial opens for Bronx man accused of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC

A Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown went on trial in Brooklyn federal court last Wednesd...

Seattle sculpture honoring 1886 Chinese expulsion hits funding goal

A public art project more than two decades in the making cleared its final financial hurdle last week, paving the way for the fabrication of...

Vivek Ramaswamy wins Ohio GOP gubernatorial primary

Vivek Ramaswamy captured the Republican nomination for Ohio governor on Tuesday, defeating political newcomer Casey Putsch and setting up a ...

A quarter of AAPI adults faced hate in the past year, and most expect more to come: poll

One in four Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident in the past year, with con...

Most Asian and Pacific Islanders detained by ICE had no criminal history, report finds

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests, detentions and deportations of Asian and Pacific Islander people have risen five to seven...

How the Voting Rights Act ruling threatens Asian American political power

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision narrowing the Voting Rights Act lands as Asian Americans, the nation’s fastest-growing racial group, are on...

Asian Americans more worried than hopeful as federal pressures mount, new survey reveals

Asian Americans are the country’s only racial or ethnic group whose worry outpaces hope, amid mounting pressures from federal immigration en...

GOP bill named after Mamdani would deport noncitizens tied to socialist or Islamist groups

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has introduced a bill that would deny entry to, deport or denaturalize any noncitizen affiliated with socialist, com...

San Francisco honors Grandpa Vicha with senior safety resolution

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution honoring Vicha Ratanapakdee last Tuesday, marking five years since his death with...

Trump admin targets nearly 400 citizens in unprecedented denaturalization push

Federal prosecutors are being mobilized nationwide to pursue citizenship revocation against nearly 400 naturalized Americans, the latest mov...

China’s STEM push draws Asian, African students as US tightens access

China enrolled 380,000 international students during the 2024-25 academic year, with Asian and African students leading enrollment gains dri...

Lawmakers join Sikh community in marking 5 years since deadly Indianapolis FedEx shooting

Members of Congress have introduced a resolution commemorating the five-year anniversary of the mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facil...

Asian enrollment surge at Johns Hopkins sparks debate over admissions equity

The share of Asian American students in Johns Hopkins University’s incoming class has surged by nearly 20 percentage points in two years, ac...

Asian surnames now fastest-growing in US as immigration reshapes population

Asian last names dominated the list of fastest-growing surnames in the U.S. between 2010 and 2020, a trend linked to a broader demographic t...

Second Southeast Asian detainee dies at Indiana ICE facility in 2 months

A Vietnamese immigrant died at the Miami Correctional Facility in Indiana on April 1, the same facility where a Cambodian detainee died in F...

Anti-Sikh hate crimes hit record high in 2025 as overall incidents decline

Anti-Sikh hate crimes in the U.S. reached a record 228 incidents in 2025, a sharp increase that came even as overall hate crimes declined 11...

Over 11,000 US kids had a parent detained by ICE under Trump, analysis finds

Immigration agents under President Donald Trump separated at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children from a parent in the first seven months of h...

Seattle man found not guilty of killing pregnant woman and her unborn child

A man who fatally shot a pregnant woman in Seattle nearly three years ago was found not guilty due to insanity on Friday. Catch up: Eina Kwo...

AAPIs hold deeply unfavorable views of ICE, say Trump hurts economy: poll

Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are far more skeptical of federal immigration enforcement than the broader U.S. public...