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A 10-year-old Honduran immigrant who came into the United States as an unaccompanied minor carries her baby cousin in 2021 in Indiana. A new federal rule expands public charge considerations in immigrants’ applications for lawful permanent residency, a policy that could contribute to more than a million people disenrolling from public benefits. (Photo b...

Riverside Mall in Minneapolis, with no customers coming and going Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)

When the federal immigration crackdown began in December, El Chuchi Market on Lake Street in Minneapolis was among the hardest-hit businesses, leading to a two-week closure in February. 

But Luis Tamay, the own...

A hallway inside the Clinton Regional Hospital, which closed in 2022. The healthcare provider is now receiving federal support to convert to a rural emergency hospital. (Photo by Jillian Taylor/ StateImpact Oklahoma)

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a significant rule change that would mean physicians receive

Gov. Jeff Landry addresses the Louisiana Legislature at the start of a November 2024 special session. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate, Pool)

Huey Long’s involvement at LSU in the 1920s and ‘30s nearly cost the university and its law school their status as reputable institutions with legitimate credentials. 

Nearly a century later, Gov. Jeff L...

(Photo by John Hayes/The Conversation)

“Look No Further!” a billboard on the side of the highway beckons, drawing my gaze toward the red cover of a Bible. “You Are Worthy of Redemption!”

Not far away, another sign urges me to “Keep Christ in Christmas.” Then farther down the road a third appears: “Jesus: COMING SOON” its bright colors anno...