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Ryan Corbett and William McKenty swapped for Khan Mohammed, who was held in California for drug traffickingA prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life …
After the fall of the Taliban, more than 21,000 Afghan evacuees submitted asylum applications; 3,100 were able to extend their temporary protected status through May 2025Almost three years after Esmatullah Sultani rushed to Kabul’s international airpor…
Recent immigrants reflect on the upheaval in their lives since the US pulled out in 2021: ‘They left us and our lives in danger’With the Afghan new year, or Nowruz, falling during the month of Ramadan this year, Afghans and Afghan Americans around the …
State bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimination, leaders sayCalifornia could soon become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, propelling a growing civil rights…
Alerts issued in Italy and China as wildfires rage in Greece, and temperature in California’s Death Valley nears global recordExtreme heatwave – latest news updatesTemperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphe…
Thenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting itThenmozhi Soundararajan had one of her earliest encounters with India’s ancient caste ladder when she was 10, during a playdate at a f…
Weather event also caused flooding, heavy rain and gusts of over 100mph this weekAn unusually deep area of low pressure moved into California late on Tuesday. The low deepened quickly, reaching the threshold for “rapid cyclogenesis”, when a low deepens…
The nation has been rattled by economic crisis, political upheaval and corruption, but many believe the dessert-making custom could spark joy in these bleak timesAs a child in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Oryan Cumaraiah-Misso remembers excitedly readying himse…
Deadly incident renews debate over cross-strait tensions and Beijing’s reunification rhetoricTaiwan’s president has condemned the deadly shooting at a Taiwanese church in California by a man reportedly driven by hatred of the self-governing island, whe…
New study highlights how events in one region can create a domino effect felt thousands of miles awayLast year California suffered its worst series of wildfires, including five of the most destructive six fires on record, all driven by unseasonal winds…
In northern California, home to a large Punjabi population, residents join backlash against laws ‘shoved down people’s throats’Sukhcharan Singh grows walnuts in Yuba City, California, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. Like many Sikh farmers in this s…
Justice department says Juan Tang lied about her background on a visa application, as US-China tensions growA Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military on a visa application was booked into a northern California jail, as…
Indian cases pass 800,000; Johannesburg struggles to find vital equipment; Texas warns ‘worst is yet to come’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia reported a record spike in coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the national…
Forty million Californians told to remain indoors as US sees cases rise to 14,500 and deaths to 205Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe coronavirus pandemic continued to tighten its grip on the US on Friday, as China reported…