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Supreme Court ruling more and more for the rich: study
Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices now rule for wealthy parties 70% of the time, up from roughly 45% seven decades ago, according t...
New Jersey township’s first Indian American mayor ends 42-year GOP streak
A Marine Corps veteran and cybersecurity professional took the oath of office last Saturday to become the first Indian American mayor of Par...
Gabbard’s past Venezuela comments resurface amid Maduro arrest
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard faces renewed scrutiny over her 2019 statements against U.S. intervention in Venezuela follo...
Mamdani pushes forward with higher taxes for the rich
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving ahead with higher taxes on New York City’s wealthiest residents and corporations, dismissing concerns about t...
Mamdani makes history with Quran swearing-in as NYC’s 1st Muslim mayor
Zohran Mamdani, 34, became New York City’s 112th mayor on Thursday, using the Quran for his oath of office in what marks the first time the ...
Asian Americans pushed out of Chinatowns at accelerating rate: report
Manhattan’s Chinatown has lost more than 20% of its Asian residents over the past decade, nearly quadruple the previous decade’s displacemen...
Military lawyer’s role in Caribbean strike comes under scrutiny
The staff judge advocate at Joint Special Operations Command, Col. Cara Hamaguchi, advised that a second strike against shipwrecked survivor...
Trump admin drops plan to deport Chinese whistleblower
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has abandoned efforts to send Guan Heng to Uganda, reversing course after growing calls to protect...
Chinese father and son deported after weeks-long ICE separation
A Chinese father and his 6-year-old son who were separated for weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest in New York C...
ICE detainees hit all-time high
Federal immigration authorities detained more than 68,400 people as of Dec. 14, marking the highest number ever recorded, according to data ...
California city settles anti-Asian discrimination lawsuits for $700,000
The city of Folsom, California, has paid $700,000 to two former police officers who sued over anti-Asian discrimination and whose departures...
GOP senator pushes bill to end dual citizenship
Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno introduced legislation earlier this month that would require Americans to hold only U.S. citizenship, for...
Trump admin ramps up efforts to revoke citizenship of foreign-born US citizens: report
The Trump administration is directing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to refer 100 to 200 denaturalization cases each mont...
Most Pacific Islanders don’t report racism despite high incident rates: survey
Sixty-one percent of Pacific Islander (PI) adults who experienced hate acts in 2024 never reported them to authorities, according to a Stop ...
Homan begs Democrats to stop ICE criticism as Asian deaths in custody rise
White House Border Czar Tom Homan urged Democratic leaders last week to end their criticism of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) per...
Chinese whistleblower who exposed Uyghur camps faces deportation
A Chinese national who filmed detention facilities in Xinjiang at great personal risk now faces removal from the U.S., drawing widespread ca...
Bondi gunmen’s travel to Philippines before terror shooting under probe
The two suspected gunmen in a terror attack that left 16 dead at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach last weekend had traveled to...
Hirono, Tran honor 50 years of Southeast Asian diaspora in new resolution
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Derek Tran (D-Calif.) introduced a bicameral resolution on Dec. 11 commemorating the 50th anniversary ...
UC Berkeley suspends lecturer over pro-Palestine remarks
UC Berkeley has suspended a computer science lecturer for six months without pay over pro-Palestinian remarks made in the classroom, drawing...
Noem faces impeachment calls after Korean American vet’s deportation
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem faced intense congressional scrutiny last Thursday after Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-...
Trump launches ‘gold card’ visa that fast-tracks immigration for the rich
President Donald Trump has officially launched his “gold card” visa program, offering expedited U.S. residency for $1 million in a move that...
US man convicted of murdering Chinese woman in London
A 26-year-old U.S. man has been convicted of murdering a 31-year-old Chinese graduate student in her south London flat after a violent confr...
Trump admin wants 5 years of social media history from tourists entering U.S.
The Trump administration is proposing mandatory social media screening for tourists from 42 visa waiver countries, requiring them to disclos...
6-year-old Chinese boy finally speaks with father after 2-week separation, detention
Yuanxin, a 6-year-old Chinese immigrant separated from his father over Thanksgiving, spoke with his parent by phone last weekend for the fir...
DHS targets Vietnamese community in New Orleans
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans has arrested Vietnamese immigrants alongside other ...
Trial begins for man accused in Vicha Ratanapakdee’s death
Nearly five years after the fatal attack on an 84-year-old Thai immigrant helped galvanize the Stop Asian Hate movement, his accused killer ...
San Jose high school students’ human swastika formation triggers hate crime probe
San Jose police have opened a hate crime investigation after eight students at Branham High School formed a human swastika on the school’s f...
Mamdani guides immigrants on what to do during ICE encounters
Following an ICE operation that drew protests near Chinatown last week, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video on social me...
JD Vance calls mass migration ‘theft’, gets told Usha ‘go back to India’
Vice President JD Vance drew yet another sharp criticism online, this time after declaring that mass migration is “theft of the American Dre...
Toddler, 3, forced to represent herself in immigration court
A 3-year-old girl was reportedly forced to represent herself in immigration court in Tucson, Arizona, on Nov. 24, one of 25 unaccompanied ch...
Oregon family breaks silence on anti-Asian burglary that took life savings
Editor’s Note: The following article has been updated to indicate that Gloria Kim has worked with, but is not currently a member, of t...
South Korean man detained at green card interview remains in ICE custody
A South Korean man who has lived in the U.S. since infancy was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a routine green ...
Hmong refugee leader released after months in ICE custody
A Michigan community leader detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since July walked free last Wednesday after bipartisan adv...
XG’s Cocona comes out as transmasculine nonbinary
Cocona, a member of the global hip-hop and R&B group XG, has publicly come out as transmasculine nonbinary, sharing the announcement in ...
JD Vance dismisses marriage rumors after Usha seen without wedding ring again
Vice President JD Vance dismissed speculations about his marriage after Second Lady Usha Vance was photographed without her wedding ring for...
Why Pete Hegseth’s ‘fog of war’ excuse sounds familiar to many Asian Americans
Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the “fog of war” during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday to explain his role in a September milita...
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