Black, Latina and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women are losing confidence in government institutions even as they remain deeply engaged in the political process, according to a new Ipsos survey released ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The U.S. recorded a sharp drop in international tourism in 2025 despite continued growth in global travel demand, according to data from the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO).

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past calls to abolish police departments, a position most Democrats have abandoned.

Orange County authorities lifted all evacuation orders Tuesday night after declaring that a damaged chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove no longer posed a risk of explosion, fire or toxic release.

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 confrontation between federal officers and demonstrators outside a Newark immigrant detention center.

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 prestigious international honors last week.

The number of immigrants dying by suicide in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has climbed to its worst point in at least 20 years, with five confirmed deaths in 2026 alone and the year’s midpoint still weeks away.

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is pushing back against a Republican colleague’s constitutional amendment targeting naturalized Americans, dismissing it as racist and xenophobic.

The city of Santa Ana, California, dedicated a memorial monument Saturday to its historic Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant community that the city ordered burned down nearly 120 years earlier.

Americans may be less likely to identify racism against Asian employees because Asian Americans do not fit common mental “prototypes” of discrimination victims, according to new research that appeared in the March-April 2026 issue of Organization Science.