Grace Meng
FILE - Peng Shuai, of China, serves to Maria Sakkari, of Greece, during the second round of the US Open tennis championships Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)
Peng Shuai saga hews to familiar script in China

By Sarah Dilorenzo Feb. 07, 2022 05:53 AM EST

In this Monday, May 10, 2021 students walk past a display for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Farmington High School in Farmington, Conn. The year of anti-Asian violence has led students and teachers to advocate for reexamining how Asian American studies and history are taught in public schools. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Legislators, students push for K-12 Asian American studies

By Annie Ma Jun. 10, 2021 01:22 AM EDT

Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., center, listen. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Congress OKs bill to fight hate crimes vs. Asian Americans

By Brian Slodysko May. 18, 2021 01:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, lobbyist Jean Kim speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York. Kim has accused mayoral candidate Scott Stringer of unwanted groping when she was working on his unsuccessful campaign for public advocate in 2001. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
NYC mayoral race heats up with 6 weeks to go before primary

By Karen Matthews May. 13, 2021 01:34 AM EDT

President Joe Biden, center, and Vice President Kamala Harris, meet with Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, second from left, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., Mark Takano, D-Calif., right, and other members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Executive Committee in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Senate OKs bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans

By Mary Clare Jalonick Apr. 22, 2021 02:48 PM EDT

Rep. Grace Meng D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Senate breaks filibuster on Asian-American hate crime bill

By Lisa Mascaro And Mary Clare Jalonick Apr. 14, 2021 12:03 AM EDT

Members of Congress and Georgia state representatives pose for a photo outside Gold Spa in Atlanta, one of the businesses hit during the March 16 shootings, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Sudhin Thanawala)
US lawmakers decry violence against Asians in Georgia visit

By Sudhin Thanawala Mar. 28, 2021 04:15 PM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks after meeting with leaders from Georgia's Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, Friday, March 19, 2021, at Emory University in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Asian Americans seek greater political power after shootings

By Will Weissert And Padmananda Rama Mar. 23, 2021 01:42 PM EDT

A woman places flowers near a makeshift memorial outside of the Gold Spa in Atlanta, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Police in the Atlanta suburb of Gwinnett County say they've begun extra patrols in and around Asian businesses there following the shooting at three massage parlors in the area that killed eight, most of them women of Asian descent. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Atlanta police on shooting probe: 'Nothing is off the table'

By Kate Brumback Mar. 18, 2021 02:35 PM EDT

Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers Monday that he has warned allies of President Donald Trump that the president's repeated attacks on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots are "not helpful," but denied that recent changes at the Postal Service are linked to the November elections. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
NY wants court to declare mail disruptions unconstitutional

By Michael R. Sisak Aug. 25, 2020 05:49 PM EDT

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D, New York, center, meets a cluster of media beside a campaign truck plastered with her promotional material in Astoria, Queens, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, on primary election day in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Ocasio-Cortez wins primary in NY, other races undecided

By Karen Matthews Jun. 23, 2020 11:23 PM EDT

Supporters of and volunteers for Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., follow primary returns Tuesday, June 23, 2020, from Clarke's campaign headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
The Latest: Many NY races too close to call

By The Associated Press Jun. 23, 2020 09:18 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2020, file photo, people walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Just how badly has the new coronavirus impacted life in the U.S.? The U.S. Census Bureau, along with five other federal agencies, will try to answer that question with a new experimental, weekly survey that just got approved earlier this week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Advocates worry blacks, Hispanics falling behind in census

By Mike Schneider Jun. 19, 2020 06:32 AM EDT

Pedestrians board a train Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Corona section of the Queens borough of New York. Data released by city health officials show that residents in the immigrant-rich Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona sections of Queens have tested positive for the coronavirus at higher rates than in wealthy, mostly white parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Virus hits NYC hardest in a few working-class neighborhoods

By Deepti Hajela, Claudia Torrens And Meghan Hoyer Apr. 02, 2020 02:51 PM EDT