The number of hate crimes reported to police in the nation's largest cities fell slightly in 2024 – an unprecedented and unexpected decline in an election year when experts predicted such crimes would rise,

A homeless man from California pleaded guilty in federal court this Wednesday to punching an Asian American woman while shouting racial slurs at her in 2021.

The victim was punched in the head in a seemingly random attack as she walked in Culver City, while the assailant shouted racial slurs, officials said.