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Dorothy Xiao’s short, “Only In This World,” makes its hometown debut Saturday, May 3 and is one of many premiering at this week’s L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Today on World Press Freedom Day, there are warnings that US attempts to withdraw from promoting independent journalism will have far-reaching effects
As Donald Trump’s executive order in March led to the shuttering of Voice of America (VOA) – the global broadcaster whose roots date back to the fight against Nazi propaganda – he quickly attracted support from figures not used to aligning themselves with any US administration.
Trump had US Agency for Global Media, the federal agency that funds VOA and other groups promoting independent journalism overseas, to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law”. The decision suddenly halted programming in 49 languages to more than 425 million people.

Judge rules Perkins Coie executive order violates constitution; Trump administration asks supreme court to lift block on Doge accessing data. This blog is now closed.
The seeds were sown for yesterday’s of Mike Waltz as national security adviser long before “Signalgate”, .
The outlet reports that his approach to the job was unpopular and Waltz was seen as too cocky. One person close to the White House said:
He’s a staff, but he was acting like a principal.
Waltz has been on thin ice for a while. [Signalgate] made the ice thinner but at the same time … may actually save him for now because they don’t want to give [Jeffrey] Goldberg a scalp.

For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.

New York City has one of the largest Asian American communities in the United States, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. But how well do you know ...

The standoff over terms of negotiations, and whether they are happening, signals that a protracted economic fight lies ahead.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission found video app breached GDPR and had submitted ‘erroneous information’ to inquiry
TikTok has been fined €530m (£452m) by an Irish watchdog over a failure to guarantee that European user data sent to China would not be accessed by the Chinese government.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) regulates TikTok across the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes all 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

More than a quarter of Americans think Chinese-Americans are a threat to U.S. society, a new poll released Thursday revealed. The Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S., or STAATUS Index, ...

Goods worth less than $800 will be subject to 120% levy meaning prices on Chinese exports will probably increase
At one minute past midnight on Friday, eastern time, a US tariff exemption that has fuelled the rise of companies such as Shein and Temu, and stocked the wardrobes of millions of Americans with cheap fast fashion and other household goods, closed. As part of Donald Trump’s on China, the US is closing a loophole that allowed low-value goods to be shipped into the US without paying any import fees. The “” loophole, known by the Latin phrase for “of little importance”, was “a big scam going on against our country”, the US president said on Wednesday. “We put an end to it.”

Bowen Yang, Hari Kondabolu, Atsuko Okatsuka and Hasan Minhaj break down the stand-up bits that rewired their comedic DNA.

Festivals, commemorations and baseball games are some of the ways to join in on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Kansas City.

Comments come a week after Trump claimed talks were already taking place
Beijing is “evaluating” an offer from the US to engage in trade negotiations, the Chinese government has said, a week after Donald Trump claimed talks were already under way.
China’s commerce ministry said on Friday: “The US has recently taken the initiative on many occasions to convey information to China through relevant parties, saying it hopes to talk with China.”