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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...

Michelle Yeoh says she was taught to be ‘seen and not heard’ while growing up

International superstar Michelle Yeoh said in a new interview on Wednesday that she grew up believing she should be “seen and not heard,” ex...

Khanna-led Epstein files bill heads to Trump’s desk

The bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act, introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), which secured the 218...

Texas student and permanent resident released after prolonged immigration detention

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, who has lived in the U.S. since age 5, was freed on Nov. 15 after almost four months in detention. The Texas A&M r...

Italian pizzeria owner apologizes for mocking Taiwanese tourists

An Italian restaurant owner has issued a video apology to the Taiwanese community following a wave of negative online reviews sparked by his...

Alice Wong, pioneering disability rights advocate and author, dies at 51

Alice Wong, the trailblazing disability rights activist and author who amplified underrepresented voices in American society, died Nov. 14 i...

Oregon unveils historical marker detailing service of Japanese American WWII soldiers

A historical marker unveiled on Veterans Day along Highway 35 in Hood River documents the World War II service of Oregon’s second-generation...

Dinesh D’Souza criticized over ‘whiteys’ remark backing Ramaswamy

Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza is facing backlash after referring to white conservatives as “whiteys” in a Nov. 13 post on X. He made th...

Filipino Canadian elected mayor of Montreal borough

Stephanie Valenzuela won the Cote des Neiges–Notre Dame de Grace mayoralty earlier this month in Montreal, becoming the first Filipino Canad...

Sydney Sweeney dismisses American Eagle ad backlash: ‘I did a jean ad’

Sydney Sweeney gave GQ only a brief explanation for the uproar over her American Eagle ad, saying, “I did a jean ad.” She told the magazine ...

UK jails Chinese ‘cryptoqueen’ after $6.3 billion bitcoin seizure

A London court on Tuesday sentenced 47-year-old Zhimin Qian, dubbed the “cryptoqueen,” to 11 years and eight months in prison for laundering...

Four Filipino WWII veterans receive Congressional Gold Medals

Four Filipino World War II veterans were posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony at the Philippine Embassy in Wa...

Rosé, Bruno Mars lead Asian talent nominated at 68th Grammy Awards

Rosé and Bruno Mars lead Asian representation at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards with three major nominations for their collaboration “APT.” O...

Shohei Ohtani wins historic 4th unanimous MVP

Shohei Ohtani made baseball history in Los Angeles on Thursday night when he captured his fourth unanimous Most Valuable Player award. The D...

AI-written articles surpass human output online for the 1st time, study finds

AI-generated articles officially outnumbered human-written ones across the web in November 2024, according to new data from Five Percent. Re...