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Jonnell Wieder earned too much money at her job to keep her Medicaid coverage when the COVID-19 public health emergency ended in 2023 and states resumed checking whether people were eligible for the program. But she was reassured by the knowledge that Medicaid would provide postpartum coverage for her and her daughter, Oakleigh McDonald, who was born in July of that year.Wieder is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana and can access some health services for free through her tribe’s health clinics. But funding is limited, so, like a lot of Native American people, she…

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Lawmakers convene during a House meeting on August 18, 2025, in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images After a two-week walkout, many Texas Democrats returned to the state’s Capitol on Monday, allowing Texas Republicans to press forward with redistricting plans. Democratic state Rep. Mihaela Plesa says their efforts started a “nationwide movement,” but she’s ready to make a legal case that Republicans redistricting maps are “racially gerrymandered maps.” “We had to come home for the legal battle,” Plesa told Morning Edition. “Our election experts told us that we, too, are on tight deadlines to…

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said Tuesday in a memo posted on X that the Trump administration is revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials.She accused them of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance personal or partisan goals, failing to safeguard classified information, failing to “adhere to professional analytic tradecraft standards” and other “detrimental” conduct that she did not describe in the memo.The memo offered no evidence to support the accusations.Many of the officials who were targeted left the government years ago after serving in both senior national…

August 19, 2025 Across the country, rural hospitals will close, and the empty towns will mirror the quiet halls where doctors and nurses once rushed to heal. Ad Policy North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana, was moved to a new location in 2007 and the building was left abandoned. It was demolished in 2015.(Elizabeth W. Kearley / Getty Images) A decade ago, when the Republican-led Montana legislature first passed Medicaid expansion, I traveled to almost every one of our state’s rural hospitals in advance of our legislative session. I still remember a town hall meeting in Choteau, which has a…

Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner as President Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in rural McCook to house people awaiting deportation and being held for other immigration proceedings. The new facility was dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink” last week by Rob Jeffreys, director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. It can accommodate 200 people with plans to expand to…

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador only to be brought back to the U.S. to face smuggling charges, asked a federal judge in Nashville on Tuesday to dismiss his indictment, calling it a “vindictive and selective prosecution” by the Trump administration.The attorneys claimed the Trump administration is only prosecuting Abrego Garcia for alleged human smuggling crimes because he challenged his deportation to El Salvador, where he was initially held at the notorious mega-prison known as CECOT. His lawyers have said their client was beaten at that prison before being transferred to a lower-level security…

The Home Depot logo is displayed outside a store in Los Angeles where immigration agents arrested day laborers after jumping out of a rental moving truck. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Ray Hudson arrived at his local Home Depot in Los Angeles preparing for a move. He picked up plastic crates. Usually, he would also hire help — one of the men who tend to gather nearby looking for work. But they weren’t there. Earlier that day, on August 6, federal agents in tactical gear sprung out of a…

Three months after a group of climbers hung a transgender pride flag from El Capitan, an iconic rock formation in Yosemite, the National Park Service fired a park ranger who was involved in the display, the former employee said.Shannon “SJ” Joslin was terminated last week after working for nearly five years as a ranger and wildlife biologist at the northern California national park, Joslin wrote in a social media post Monday that has since garnered widespread attention online. “In May I hung a trans flag on El Capitan that celebrated my acceptance of my identity,” Joslin captioned the post. “I hung…

Politics / August 19, 2025 Trump has launched an all-out assault on civic freedoms, but the Democrats aren’t yet giving their base something to vote for. Ad Policy Ballots sit in a tray inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Election Day, November 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.(Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) Casual followers of our politics can be forgiven for greeting the torrent of authoritarian power grabs engineered by the Trump White House as a disjointed series of passing obsessions—the antics of a supreme post-constitutional leader with poor impulse control. Unleashing federal troops and National Guard units…