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 ...

Why anti-Asian workplace bias often goes unrecognized, according to new research

Americans may be less likely to identify racism against Asian employees because Asian Americans do not fit common mental “prototypes” of dis...

The internet had a lot to say about this Long Island school’s 21 valedictorians

Jericho High School in Nassau County has long been known on Long Island for its academic intensity, but this year’s graduating class brought...

Why a post about a Meta layoff triggered a wave of anti-Indian racism

An X post about an Indian Meta engineer allegedly receiving a layoff email while in Bengaluru triggered a wave of reactions about H-1B worke...

YouTuber faces backlash after anti-Asian tweet resurfaces during K-pop debut

Internet personality Trisha Paytas drew backlash this week after critics resurfaced a 2017 tweet containing anti-Asian slurs days after she ...

Starbucks Korea ‘Tank Day’ promotion draws outrage

A marketing campaign by Starbucks Korea has ignited public anger in South Korea after promotional slogans referencing “Tank Day” appeared on...

Fear alone did not drive anti-Asian attacks during COVID, researchers say

Anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic was fueled more by anger than fear of infection, according to new research from Murdoch Unive...

‘No Filipinos allowed’ sign in South Korea sparks debate

A TikTok video describing venues in South Korea that allegedly barred Filipinos and other Southeast Asians from entering has ignited renewed...

After Beijing’s summit spectacle, Trump sells Xi’s image back home

U.S. President Donald Trump gushed over Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Fox News interview aired during his Beijing trip last week, wh...

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...