OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — An armed robber in the San Francisco Bay Area pistol-whipped an Asian man and a person who tried to intervene in what police described as a “brazen” attack in broad daylight. The man was standing on a corner of Oakland’s Chinatown on July 15 when two men walked up and tried […]

By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum dedicated to telling Chinese American history marked its reopening to the public on July 14, with an exhibit on Asian Americans and racism that it curated partially through submissions gathered during the pandemic and a surge of anti-Asian bias incidents around […]

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A few months into the pandemic, data showed Pacific Islanders suffered the highest infection rates in Hawaii. But what early numbers didn’t publicly show was which Pacific Islanders in the diverse identification category—which includes people with ethnic roots in Samoa, Micronesia and other islands but excludes […]

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and accused Beijing of working with criminal hackers on ransomware and other illicit cyber operations. The announcements, though not accompanied by sanctions against the Chinese government, were intended […]

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the “Asian carp” label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearing down on the Great Lakes. But the last straw came […]