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The Weekend Read / November 29, 2025 I traveled through airports and reported in sports stadiums this year. At each, I was asked to scan my face for security. Ad Policy An AI security camera demo at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada.(Bridget Bennett / Getty Images) In the fall, my partner and I took two cross-country flights in quick succession. The potential dangers of flying, exacerbated by a few high-profile plane crashes earlier in the year, seemed to subside in the national consciousness. There were other tragedies and failures to worry about. Still, the ordeal of flying necessitates the…

Community members prepare a portrait of West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom for a vigil in her honor at the town hall on Friday in Webster Springs, W.Va. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeff Swensen/Getty Images As law enforcement officials investigate the shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C., U.S. immigration policy has undergone rapid changes. The Trump administration has abruptly halted the processing of any immigration requests from Afghan nationals, and the president has vowed to further tighten his crackdown on immigration. Here is what we know. National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom remembered Sarah Beckstrom,…

If Virginia Democrats go ahead with redistricting, it would go a long way to countering the GOP and President Trump. But it would challenge the governor-elect’s bipartisan image and anger Republicans. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In most states, the state legislature controls the congressional district map, and in the redistricting scramble that President Trump set off ahead of next year’s midterms, Republicans control more state Houses than Democrats. Virginia is one place Democrats could make changes that benefit their party, even though it is not as heavily Democratic as some other states. Jahd Khalil at member station VPM in Richmond reports…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One on November 16, 2025 at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images After an Afghan national was named as being behind a shooting in Washington, D.C., that left one member of the National Guard dead and another in critical condition, the Trump administration says it is halting all asylum decisions. Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said Friday night that the agency is pausing decisions “until we can ensure that every alien…

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, second from right, is taken in handcuffs to a waiting aircraft as he is extradited to the United States, at an Air Force base in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 21, 2022. Elmer Martinez/AP hide caption toggle caption Elmer Martinez/AP WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The president explained his decision on social media by posting that “according to many people that I…

President Donald Trump holds up a photograph as he speaks to reporters after speaking to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media. The extended rant came in the wake of the Wednesday shooting of two National Guard members who were deployed to patrol Washington, D.C. under Trump’s orders, one of whom died shortly before…

Politics / StudentNation / November 27, 2025 In Martin County, the government shutdown and attacks on food stamps have exposed Donald Trump’s empty promises. To many, that makes him just another politician. Ad Policy An attendee holds a campaign hat reading “Make America Great Again” during a rally for President Trump in Kentucky.(Luke Sharrett / Getty) On an April morning in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson landed in Martin County, Kentucky, stepping from Marine One to the hollers of a rural county where 60 percent of residents lived in poverty. With reporters and photographers from Time and Life in tow,…

A customer shops for produce at an H-E-B grocery store earlier this year in Austin, Texas. Many shoppers are cutting back on purchases due to higher costs. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images Many families across the country expect the holidays to be more costly this year, leaving them with less of what the season is all about: family and food. “My god, is it different this year!” Steve Posey, said this week while looking into the dairy case at Aldi supermarket in Medford, Mass. “With inflation and the cost of eggs and cheese and all…

Lindsey Halligan pictured outside of the White House in August, a month before she was appointed acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor overseeing them was unlawfully appointed to her role. That prosecutor is Lindsey Halligan, a 36-year-old former insurance attorney who served as one of President Trump’s personal lawyers after his first term and joined his second administration as a White House aide. Trump…

President Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. Pete Marovich/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pete Marovich/Getty Images The historic Georgia criminal case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies for their efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election result has officially come to an end. “The case is hereby dismissed in its entirety,” Fulton Superior Judge Scott McAfee ordered Wednesday. Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, moved to end the prosecution against the remaining defendants after he assumed the case from Fulton County District Attorney…