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Washington — The State Department says it has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for overstays and violations of the law. The vast majority of those violations or alleged violations entailed assault, driving under the influence, burglary, and “support for terrorism,” according to a State Department official, although the State Department didn’t say whether those were accusations, arrests, charges or convictions. Two-thirds of the recently revoked visas were because the students violated the law, the official said. Fox News first reported the student visa revocations. Those roughly 6,000 students represent a fraction of the 1.1 million foreign students who studied at colleges and…

In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.  We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel.  The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and consultants that got us here?  At The Nation, we…

An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead.Anthony Boyd has filed a lawsuit challenging the relatively new and controversial execution method that uses lethal gas to cause suffocation, arguing its application is unconstitutionally cruel — something multiple inmates facing the same fate in Alabama have tried to prove with legal actions. Witnesses to previous nitrogen gas executions have raised concerns about whether the method results in unnecessary suffering. So far, no cases arguing against its use have been successful in court.Boyd is on…

Oklahoma will require applicants for teacher jobs coming from California and New York to pass an exam that the Republican-dominated state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology” but that opponents decry as a “MAGA loyalty test.” Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s public schools superintendent, said Monday that any teacher coming from the two blue states will be required to pass an assessment exam administered by PragerU, an Oklahoma-based conservative nonprofit, before getting a state certification. “As long as I am superintendent, Oklahoma classrooms will be safeguarded from the radical leftist ideology fostered in places like California…

Talia Suskauer and Max Chernin play Lucille and Leo Frank, in the national tour of Parade, about a Jewish man falsely accused of murder in 1913. Parade ends its tour at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., amid a rise in antisemitic hate. Joan Marcus hide caption toggle caption Joan Marcus The national tour of Parade, a Tony award-winning musical about the real-life lynching of a Jewish man in 1915, arrives at the Kennedy Center this week amid President Trump’s takeover of the institution, and an antisemitic backlash amplified by a member of the Trump administration. Parade, which ends its…

As students savor the last dregs of summer before heading back to school, many families are shopping for supplies earlier this year to get ahead of tariffs. Over half of U.S. households that earn less than $50,000 a year say they plan to buy only essential school items, while 74% say they are shopping earlier than usual to avoid a potential hit from tariffs, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), a trade organization that opposes higher import duties. Many back-to-school essentials, from clothing and footwear to personal electronics, are imported. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that the U.S. tariff rate on such goods…

In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump.  We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms shipments to Israel.  The Democratic Party has an urgent choice to make: Will it embrace a politics that is principled and popular, or will it continue to insist on losing elections with the out-of-touch elites and consultants that got us here?  At The Nation, we…

President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power.”We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,” he said during an Oval Office  meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots.”Why does Trump want to ban mail-in ballots?”Mail-in ballots are corrupt,”…

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President Trump says he wants to ban mail-in voting and voting machines ahead of next year’s midterms. Is it legal? ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump announced this morning on his social media site that he plans to sign an executive order eliminating mail-in voting and possibly voting machines ahead of next year’s midterms. Legal and voting experts say it would be very difficult to upend how states run their elections. But more importantly, they say, the president lacks the legal authority to do this. NPR political correspondent Ashley Lopez is here in the studio to tell us more. Hey, Ashley.ASHLEY…