Ronny Chieng says what everyone’s thinking about AI at Harvard

Ronny Chieng used Harvard College’s Class Day ceremony this week to openly mock the pro-AI message that has shaped many commencement speeche...

Karl-Anthony Towns credits Jeremy Lin for turning him into a Knicks fan

New York Knicks starting center Karl-Anthony Towns says his fandom with his team began with Jeremy Lin. Speaking during NBA Finals media ava...

Texas anchor faces BTS ARMY backlash over ‘death to America’ Oreo joke

BTS fans are pushing back against a Lubbock, Texas news anchor who joked on air that the K-pop group’s upcoming Oreo collaboration spells ou...

Man who bludgeoned 4 to death in NYC Chinatown sentenced

A Manhattan judge sentenced the man convicted of fatally beating four unhoused men with a metal bar in Chinatown to 40 years to life in stat...

Trump admin walks back green card memo as Asian backlogs loom

The Trump administration is downplaying a new green card policy memo that immigration advocates warn could push hundreds of thousands of ...

High-achieving Asian American teens are slipping through mental health screening

Many Chinese American teenagers struggling with anxiety and depression are being overlooked by schools and even their own families because t...

South Carolina gas station owner acquitted of murder in 2023 fatal shooting of teen

A South Carolina jury on Monday acquitted an Asian American gas station owner of murder in the 2023 shooting of Cyrus Carmack-Belton, a Blac...

Most Asian, Black and Latina women say government is failing them, new poll finds

Black, Latina and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women are losing confidence in government institutions even as they r...

Trump’s tougher border image is starting to cost billions in tourism

The U.S. recorded a sharp drop in international tourism in 2025 despite continued growth in global travel demand, according to data from the...

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate won’t disavow past calls to abolish police

A review of social media posts and public statements has revived scrutiny of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past calls t...

Evacuations lift near California’s Little Saigon as chemical spill probe widens

Orange County authorities lifted all evacuation orders Tuesday night after declaring that a damaged chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facil...

Andy Kim pepper-sprayed by ICE at Newark detention protest

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 confrontat...

Taiwanese novel is 1st Mandarin Chinese work to win International Booker Prize

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 pres...

Suicides in ICE detention hit two-decade high

The number of immigrants dying by suicide in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention has climbed to its worst point in at least ...

Jayapal slams GOP resolution excluding naturalized citizens like her from federal office

U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is pushing back against a Republican colleague’s constitutional amendment targeting naturalized American...

Santa Ana unveils memorial for Chinatown destroyed by city-ordered fire

The city of Santa Ana, California, dedicated a memorial monument Saturday to its historic Chinatown, a Chinese immigrant community that the ...

Why anti-Asian workplace bias often goes unrecognized, according to new research

Americans may be less likely to identify racism against Asian employees because Asian Americans do not fit common mental “prototypes” of dis...

The internet had a lot to say about this Long Island school’s 21 valedictorians

Jericho High School in Nassau County has long been known on Long Island for its academic intensity, but this year’s graduating class brought...

Why a post about a Meta layoff triggered a wave of anti-Indian racism

An X post about an Indian Meta engineer allegedly receiving a layoff email while in Bengaluru triggered a wave of reactions about H-1B worke...

YouTuber faces backlash after anti-Asian tweet resurfaces during K-pop debut

Internet personality Trisha Paytas drew backlash this week after critics resurfaced a 2017 tweet containing anti-Asian slurs days after she ...

Starbucks Korea ‘Tank Day’ promotion draws outrage

A marketing campaign by Starbucks Korea has ignited public anger in South Korea after promotional slogans referencing “Tank Day” appeared on...

Fear alone did not drive anti-Asian attacks during COVID, researchers say

Anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic was fueled more by anger than fear of infection, according to new research from Murdoch Unive...

‘No Filipinos allowed’ sign in South Korea sparks debate

A TikTok video describing venues in South Korea that allegedly barred Filipinos and other Southeast Asians from entering has ignited renewed...

After Beijing’s summit spectacle, Trump sells Xi’s image back home

U.S. President Donald Trump gushed over Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Fox News interview aired during his Beijing trip last week, wh...

Man who threw rock at endangered seal in Maui says he was ‘protecting turtles’

A Washington state man accused of throwing a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal on Maui never meant to harm the animal and though...

Bronx man convicted of running secret Chinese ‘police station’ in NYC

The Bronx man accused of running a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown has been convicted of illegally serving as an agen...

Asian American enrollment up at elite colleges after affirmative action ruling, but unevenly

Asian American freshman representation has risen at the nation’s most selective colleges in the first admissions cycle following the Supreme...

DOJ says Yale med discriminated against Asian, white applicants

The Justice Department has accused Yale’s medical school of illegally considering race in its admissions decisions, the second medical schoo...

5 Vietnamese American candidates compete for California’s 45th Congressional District seat

An almost entirely Vietnamese American field of candidates is competing for California’s 45th Congressional District seat, anchored by Orang...

Asian American NBA stars are lighting up the conference finals

Three of the four teams currently battling it out in the NBA conference finals feature players of Asian American heritage, placing Filipino ...

How Japan’s breakfast culture became part of chrononutrition science

In Japan, breakfast has long been treated as a proper meal: rice, soup, fish and fermented foods eaten before work or school. Researchers no...

A viral NYC meetup for Wasians turned into a larger argument about race and representation

A social meetup for Wasians, promoted through community page Half Asian Spring, drew more than 3,000 people to Central Park’s Sheep Meadow o...

NextShark joins Angels Heritage Nights as promotional partner for 2026 season

NextShark is partnering with the Angels Baseball to help spotlight Asian culture, community and storytelling across multiple celebrations th...

NextShark invests in Journey Optics, a brand building sunglasses for Asian faces

NextShark, a leading platform covering Asian and Asian American culture and reaching over 100 million people monthly, has taken an equity st...

Despite tech billionaire entourage, Trump leaves Beijing empty-handed

U.S. President Donald Trump ended his state visit to China on Thursday after two days of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. More th...

The hantavirus outbreak isn’t being blamed on Asians, but AAPI communities are watching anyway

The hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic unfolds against the backdrop of lingering COVID-era trauma in Asian American co...