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Policy & Unrest
USCIS Policies Upend Decades of Practice, Penalizing Eligible Immigrants for Seeking Permanent Residence from Within the United States Boston — Immigrant families, workers, educators, unions, and immigrant rights organizations filed a lawsuit today, challenging two Trump-Vance administration…
Cost of living, energy and fuel prices, and markets when they reach households
There’s a huge and rare divergence between the two-month returns of the Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Conflict involving the US, and wars abroad when they reach home
A U.S. Marine has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of robbing and murdering a woman. The Japanese government has lodged a complaint with the U.S. and is demanding full cooperation with the investigation. From Okinawa, special correspondent Patrick Fok explains how the case threatens to revive…
Agency failures, inspector general and GAO findings, disaster response gaps and infrastructure breakdowns
Just months into the start of the Biden administration, officials within former President Joe Biden’s own Justice Department warned that an effort to address school board threats risked becoming an “Anti-MAGA Task Force,” according to a report released Monday. The Trump administration’s Justice…
ICE and detention, court rulings on policy and civil liberties, protests, and policy changes that divide us
In our news wrap Monday, students at Cornell are staging protests over the university's handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape in 2024, President Trump said a threat linked to Iran was the reason the U.S. withdrew its bombers from the Fairford airbase in the UK and Dennis Hastert, the…