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Asian Americans have emerged as a critical constituency for Republicans and Democrats in electoral battlegrounds ...

One of the honorees addresses the awarding ceremony at the 18th Chinese American Film Festival and the Chinese American Television Festival in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Nov. 4, 2022.

One of the honorees addresses the awarding ceremony at the 18th Chinese American Film Festival and the Chinese American Television Festival in Los Angeles, California, the United States, Nov. 4, 2022.

Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre is staging the state premiere of Lauren Yee's "The Great Leap" Nov. 10-20 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.

A man from Ohio was charged with committing a federal hate crime after he physically assaulted an Asian-American student in Cincinnati, because of his race. According to a news release from the ...

A Cincinnati man is facing federal hate crime charges for a 2021 attack where he socked an Asian-American college student and threatened to kill him for bringing COVID-19 to the US. Darrin Johnson ...

Unexpected announcement quashes hopes of lifting lockdowns, quarantining and rigorous testing
Health officials in China on Saturday dashed hopes there would be a relaxation of the country’s strict Covid-19 restrictions. At a news conference, they insisted China would “unswervingly” stick to its zero-Covid policy which includes lockdowns, quarantining and rigorous testing aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
The announcement follows several days’ speculation that they were considering changing a disease containment policy that has disrupted economic growth and daily life, and is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world.

A Cincinnati man has been charged with a federal hate crime on suspicion of assaulting an Asian-American college student because of his race in 2021 -- an attack in which the defendant allegedly ...

They are the images that made us sit up and take notice. As world leaders gather for Cop27, these pictures prove that global heating isn’t a distant possibility – it’s already here
For a week in July 2018, a giant over a tiny village on the west coast of Greenland. Villagers were evacuated, and the world watched in suspense: if a chunk of the 10m-tonne iceberg had broken apart or “calved”, it would have caused a tsunami and obliterated the settlement of Innaarsuit. Eventually, it drifted away from the shore – but as glaciers melt, we can expect to see more masses of ice breaking off and floating dangerously close to land.

Sociologist Jennifer Lee writes in the New York Times: In "The Asian American Achievement Paradox," which I wrote with Min Zhou and is based on 162 interviews of Asian, Hispanic, Black and white ...

World leaders meeting for UN climate talks in Egypt are under pressure to take action. Here are some commonly used terms and what they mean
Cop27 will be the 27th conference of the parties to the , the parent treaty to the 2015 Paris agreement. While last year’s Cop26 was higher profile, with 120 world leaders and about 40,000 delegates attending, this year’s will have fewer key decisions to make. However, it is no less important: by 2030 the world must cut emissions by about half, compared with 2010 levels, to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown, and this means every Cop is vital.

Three splashy events this week were meant to prove that the former British colony was still “Asia’s World City.” But Covid exemptions were provided for visitors from overseas, especially the wealthy ones.