From racist slurs and gestures to harassment while working out in public, Asian Americans representing their country at the Olympics in Tokyo have recounted some of the discrimination they have faced in the United States. Sakura Kokumai is competing in karate, a sport being contested for the first time at the Olympics. She described in a May post on the Team USA website how a man at a park in California “verbally harassed me because of my race.” “It was my first experience with such an aggressive and obvious hate …

Eighteen migrant laborers sleeping on a highway in northern India after their bus broke down died when a truck rammed into the vehicle, police said Wednesday.  At least 19 others were injured in the accident in Uttar Pradesh state, a senior police officer told reporters.  Most of the passengers were returning home to the eastern state of Bihar after working in the states of Punjab or Haryana.  The passengers got off the bus after its axle shaft broke and were sleeping next to it when a truck crashed into it …

The Biden administration is throwing its support behind congressional legislation that would require companies to report major data breaches by hackers, including the ransomware attacks that are increasingly targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. “The administration strongly supports congressional action to require victim companies to report significant breaches, including ransomware attacks,” Richard Downing, a deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. “In particular, such legislation should require covered entities to notify the federal government about ransomware attacks, cyber incidents that …