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1 week ago | asamnews.com | Michelle Shen

By Michelle Shen Narrator: Here’s the story of a Philadelphia citizen who brought her daughter to the polls only to leave crying and humiliated without ever casting her ballot. This is a recounted version from a commissioner meeting on civil rights. DOJ official: “The poll workers were laughing at the fact that I could not speak English. My daughter told the poll worker in broken English that I needed help in Spanish. They could not help me in Spanish.

1 week ago | asamnews.com | Emil Guillermo

By Emil Amok GuillermoIn our current trade war, Trump did more than blink. This weekend – a day after China called Trump’s bluff and put tariffs at 125 percent on US goods, and Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145 percent – the US announced it would exempt phones, laptops and other electronics coming in from China from any tariffs. That’s a blink, right? But It’s also a wink, an open invitation to everyone to come to the White House to make a deal.

1 week ago | asamnews.com | Sunita Sohrabji

By Sunita Sohrabji, American Community Media A proposed rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would potentially strip healthcare coverage for millions via the Affordable Care Act, and also make DACA recipients ineligible for coverage. The “2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule” is undergoing a public comment period, which ends before midnight tonight, April 11. As of this writing, April 9, more than 18,000 comments had been entered.

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Randall Yip

By Randall Yip, Executive EditorA vote has been delayed in Texas on one of the most stringent Alien Land Bills in the country as a coalition grows to oppose it. HB17 in the Texas House of Representatives would not only restrict the purchase of property by foreign nationals from China, North Korea, Russia and Iran, it would also put limits on where they could rent.

2 weeks ago | asamnews.com | Akemi Tamanaha

by Akemi Tamanaha, Associate EditorMost Asian American and Pacific Islander adults voiced their disapproval of the current Trump administration’s policies in a recent survey. On Wednesday, AAPI Data and AP-NORC released the results of a survey examining how the AAPI community is reacting to President Trump’s agenda. Over half (55%) of AAPI adults surveyed said they felt Trump was focusing on the wrong priorities and only 18% believe he is focusing on the right priorities.