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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

NYC Republican club to honor far-right German leader months after anti-Asian texts

A New York City Republican club will honor a far-right German political leader at its Dec. 13 gala, two months after its statewide counterpa...

6-year-old Chinese boy separated from father after ICE arrest

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Chinese man and his 6-year-old son at a scheduled check-in in New York City last week, ...

MC Jin, NE-YO, and Sonu Nigam launch new music label to spotlight Asian artists globally

NE-YO, Sonu Nigam, and MC Jin have teamed up with music executive Jonathan Serbin to launch a new Hong Kong–based music label called Pacific...

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...

Nikki Haley’s son: Vivek Ramaswamy has ‘third world parenting style’

Nalin Haley, the 24-year-old son of former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, called out Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy once again las...

Kash Patel faces mounting criticism as damning report questions his FBI leadership

An alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts has issued a 115-page assessment declaring that FBI Director Kash Pat...

NYPD response to Chinatown anti-ICE protest sparks condemnation

The NYPD is facing backlash for how it handled anti-ICE protests in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where multiple arrests and violent confrontations...

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...

US and South Korea move to repair relations after Georgia raid

Washington and Seoul are taking steps to mend diplomatic and economic relations after September’s immigration raid that detained hundreds of...

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...

Taiwan’s 2027 defense push reflects deepening U.S.-China-Japan strategic competition

President Lai Ching-te unveiled Taiwan’s most ambitious military spending program last week, committing $1.25 trillion Taiwan dollars ($40 b...

Trump orders migration freeze from ‘Third World Countries’

President Donald Trump pledged to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” following a deadly shooting in Washington, D....

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...

Myanmar refugees face return to civil war after Trump admin ends protection

Roughly 4,000 Myanmar nationals in the U.S. face deportation to a war-torn homeland after the Trump administration ended their temporary pro...

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...

UT Austin’s first woman, Asian American police chief files discrimination suit

Eve Stephens, the first Asian American woman to lead any University of Texas (UT) System police department, has filed a federal lawsuit agai...

Rep. Young Kim condemns socialism as she prepares for GOP primary

Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) recently condemned socialism with a personal take, echoing President Donald Trump’s “communist” branding of NYC Ma...

SF man faces life in prison for fatal beating of Asian American grandmother

A 25-year-old man convicted of killing an elderly woman as part of an anti-Asian crime spree in 2019 will likely receive a life sentence wit...