内容摘要：Geraldine Rodriguez, sous-chef of the Quintonil restaurant, poses for a portrait in the kitchen in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Geraldine Rodriguez, sous-chef of the Quintonil restaurant, poses for a portrait in the kitchen in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Teresa and Nathan Chan, who are Chinese American, had bought Valkyries season tickets for themselves and their daughters Adelaide, 16, and Ashlyn, 15. Both girls play for the San Jose Zebras, one of several Asian American youth teams around the Bay Area.Adelaide said she was “freaking out” when she found out an Asian American woman would be taking a lead in Dub Nation. She sees parallels with Nakase, who also grew up playing in an Asian American league.

“I thought that was just so cool and it felt more so like she was part of our community already,” Adelaide said.Both Nakase and Chen’s presence have intensified Ashlyn’s interest.“I didn’t really watch the WNBA like that much before,” Ashlyn said, “but now that I see a lot of Asian representation ... I’m more like, ‘Oh, this is my team now.’”

Teresa Chan, whose father founded a local basketball club over 30 years ago, said it’s “the most wonderful thing that we could ever ask for. I think also it challenges the stereotypes and expands their views of what’s possible.”It’s “a symbol to all girls and boys alike in the Asian community,” Nathan Chan added.

Nakase embraces what she feels is a responsibility and thinks about how to use her new platform to encourage more girls on a daily basis.

“What I feel like I’m going to connect more to also is more coaches,” Nakase said. “Because I think that, like I said, the impact of coaches is going to be the reason why other females — younger kids that look like me — that they’re going to be inspired.”Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at

NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval.“These new requirements would have stifled American innovation and saddled companies with burdensome new regulatory requirements,” the Commerce Department

President Joe Biden established the export framework shortly before he left office in an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. While the United States had already restricted exports to adversariesand Russia, some of those