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BD Wong apologizes for Instagram comment invoking ‘racist trope’

Actor BD Wong apologized on Dec. 3 after posting an Instagram comment under wildlife influencer Mike Holston’s video that compared the anima...

Model discovered at NYC subway station becomes 1st Indian to open Chanel show

Bhavitha Mandava became the first Indian model to open a Chanel runway when she led the house’s Métiers d’Art 2026 show in New York City on ...

Adults aged 45 and older are getting lonelier, survey shows

New research from AARP indicates that loneliness is affecting older Americans at a higher rate than in previous years, with 40% meeting the ...

Korean American ‘Overwatch’ actor files defamation lawsuit against WestJet

WestJet is facing a defamation lawsuit from Korean American actor Charlet Chung over a confrontation she recorded last year aboard a flight ...

Nathan Chen to enter Figure Skating Hall of Fame after record-setting career

Olympic champion Nathan Chen will be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2026, honoring a career that produced two Olympic...

Kimchi can boost immune system, new study finds

A new study in South Korea found that eating kimchi powder every day can make key immune cells more alert while helping the body maintain st...

Amazon workers say AI push threatens democracy and the world

More than 1,000 Amazon employees said on Tuesday that the company’s rapid artificial intelligence (AI) rollout is putting jobs, democratic i...

Malaysia to bar children under-16s from social media

Malaysia will introduce a nationwide ban on social media accounts for users under 16 in 2026 and require platforms to block account creation...

Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa dies at 75

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor who played Shang Tsung in both the 1995 “Mortal Kombat” film and the 2019 video game “Mort...

India reverses order requiring government tracking app on all smartphones

The Indian government withdrew an order on Wednesday that would have required every smartphone in the country to carry an app that critics s...

Floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia kill more than 1,400

More than 1,400 people have been killed across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia after days of heavy rain triggered severe floodin...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang orders employees to automate all tasks with AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang instructed employees during a companywide meeting in Santa Clara on Nov. 20 that they should automate every task pos...

Most voters say college degree is not worth the cost, new poll finds

A new NBC News national poll finds that 63% of registered voters in the U.S. believe a four-year college degree is not worth its cost, the l...

Hong Kong targets contractors and critics in deadly fire probe

Hong Kong officials say noncompliant plastic netting used on the Wang Fuk Court scaffolding failed fire resistance tests after the blaze kil...

Lucy Liu says Hollywood racism stalled her career for decades

Lucy Liu says long-standing racial bias in Hollywood created what she describes as a “strange lull” in her career after her early success in...

NYC teen turns origami into award-winning disaster relief innovation

Fourteen-year-old Miles Wu of New York City won the $25,000 top prize at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge for his or...

California officer’s lawsuit accuses colleagues of racially harassing him

A California police officer is suing his department after allegedly being subjected to racist remarks by a supervisor, pressured to meet arr...

Ottawa man sentenced for hate-motivated harassment of his Asian neighbors

A former Ottawa resident who admitted to terrorizing his Asian neighbors with racially motivated harassment and vandalism has narrowly avoid...

North Korean troops in Ukraine ordered to die before capture

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly instructed his troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine to kill themselves with gr...

Yue-Sai Kan: The woman who helped give color to a colorless nation

Yue-Sai Kan introduced the world to China when the country was still largely closed off. Now, she worries that understanding is slipping awa...

Trump request puts ‘Rush Hour 4’into development at Paramount

“Rush Hour 4” is now in active development at Paramount Pictures after Donald Trump personally urged the studio to move forward with the lon...

Google’s CEO can afford to lose his job to AI. We can’t.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was smiling in a BBC interview aired last Tuesday when he suggested that “what a CEO does is maybe one of the easie...

‘Godfather of AI’ warns of AI’s dangers

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence (AI), urged policymakers ...

Social media giants knew platforms were ‘addictive drug’ for teens, court filings reveal

Internal communications from Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok, Snap Inc. and YouTube, revealed in a 5,807-page federal court filing unsealed this...

Eating alone linked to higher frailty risks among older adults, global review finds

When did you last share a meal with your grandparents? A new review of international studies published in 2025 finds that older adults who r...

Anti-Asian hate crimes remain nearly triple pre-pandemic levels

Anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. reached 379 incidents in 2024, according to a new analysis of FBI data released on Thursday by Asian Amer...

How this viral walking trend from Japan actually changes key fitness markers

A walking technique developed in Japan is gaining attention on social media as users attempt a routine built on fixed three-minute intervals...

Bollywood icon Dharmendra dies at 89

Indian cinema lost one of its most influential figures on Monday, when Dharmendra died at his home in Mumbai at age 89. He had recently been...

Simu Liu calls out renewed decline of Asian representation in Hollywood

Simu Liu is urging the film industry to confront what he calls a troubling reversal in Asian visibility on screen. In a widely shared social...

Forget the turkey: Asian American families reinvent the Thanksgiving table

Roast duck has become a stand-in for turkey in many Asian American households, and pancit or kimchi often fills the space usually held by ma...

Ohtani bat fetches $300,000 at auction

A Shohei Ohtani bat photo matched to five home runs during his 2024 season led SCP Auctions’ 2025 Fall Premier sale in Laguna Niguel, Califo...

It’s time to teach our parents how to spot AI fakes

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools develop at an unprecedented rate, it is becoming more and more difficult for people to tell digital fa...

Korean masterworks make US debut at Smithsonian

More than 200 rare works from Korea’s most significant private art donation opened to the public on Saturday at the National Museum of Asian...

Landmark study links ultra processed foods to chronic diseases worldwide

A global review published by The Lancet reports that many familiar convenience foods, including instant noodles, sweetened beverages and pac...

New research dismantles 2,000-year-old Chinese legend that blamed a woman for dynasty’s collapse

A new study decisively challenges the historical portrayal of Bao Si, a figure long scapegoated for the collapse of the Western Zhou Dynasty...

Your podcast queue needs more diverse voices

A new study from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California finds that the hosts of the top 100 podcasts of...