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The Trump administration is directing immigration officers to consider some chronic health conditions like diabetes in deciding whether to issue visas to immigrants. CHRIS DELMAS/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption CHRIS DELMAS/AFP/Getty Images Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a directive issued last week by the Trump administration. The guidance, issued in a cable the State Department sent to embassy and consular officials and examined by KFF Health News, directs visa officers to deem applicants ineligible to enter the U.S. for several new reasons,…

Comment / November 12, 2025 We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it’ll take to win the next 10 elections. Ad Policy This is probably not going to be enough.(Mark Kerrison / Getty) This article appears in the December 2025 issue, with the headline “Beyond Marching.” On Saturday, October 18, more than 7 million people took to the streets in thousands of events across the country, proudly declaring that we have no kings in America. Aerial camera shots of throngs of people marching down the streets of Chicago, New York,…

Moderate Democrats made a political calculation to end the shutdown but try to keep health care in the spotlight. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Senate approved legislation to reopen the government last night. The House is expected to vote on the package as early as tomorrow evening. But most Democrats are criticizing the deal for not delivering on their key demand, the renewal of expiring health care subsidies. NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh joins us now from the Capitol. Hi, Deirdre.DEIRDRE WALSH, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa.CHANG: OK, so for weeks now, we’ve been hearing about what the Democrats have been demanding, and…

Over a year after Diron Kelly faced down the judge at his eviction hearing, he still remembered her question: “How did you get to court?”He could have told her about the company that bought Conrad at Concord Mills, the Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment complex where he lived, in March 2022—the one that Kelly says installed a slew of “gadgets” he didn’t need before raising his rent by nearly $400 a month. He could have told her about the eviction notices that the company kept filing against him—the ones that came, he says, with an onslaught of fees that virtually guaranteed…

A cashier scans groceries, including produce, which is covered by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), at a grocery store in Baltimore on Monday. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP hide caption toggle caption Stephanie Scarbrough/AP The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full SNAP payments, amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume. The order keeps in place at least for a few more days a chaotic situation. People who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to feed their families in some states have received their full monthly allocations, while others have received…

Politics / November 11, 2025 Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic. Ad Policy Senator Tim Kaine, one of eight Democrats who voted to end the shutdow, speaks to members of the media on November 10, 2025.(Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg via Getty Images) There were only ever two ways the government shutdown was going to end. Option one was for Democrats to cave in and give Trump and the Republicans everything they wanted. Option two was for the Republicans to kill the filibuster and…

Angie Sullivan (L) and Jennifer Welch (R) speak onstage during a GLAAD Pride Month event on June 26, 2025 in Brooklyn, New York. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLAAD hide caption toggle caption Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLAAD For people who don’t like the Trump administration’s policies or how the Democratic Party has responded, there’s a good chance I’ve Had It has come across their social media feeds. It only takes a few seconds of listening to get a sense of who hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan consider their target audience — and the target of their ire. “Patriots,…

Politics / November 11, 2025 The alleged “compromise” is a boon for the GOP, and especially those who helped Trump dispute the 2020 election results. Ad Policy (Tom Brenner / Getty Images) Last night eight Democratic senators caved and voted for a bill to open the government without restoring the Affordable Care Act subsidies they’d promised to fight for. You might think Donald Trump would appreciate the olive branch, but you’d be wrong. That very same night Trump’s Justice Department announced a mass pardon for almost 80 individuals involved in Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election. This list included…

A tray of mail-in ballots is seen at King County elections headquarters on Nov. 5, 2024, in Renton, Wash. Lindsey Wasson/AP hide caption toggle caption Lindsey Wasson/AP The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case that could decide whether states can count postmarked mail ballots that arrive after Election Day — something that about 20 states and territories currently allow. Mississippi is one of those states, and in June, its top election official asked the court to hear a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee that argues the state’s five-day mail ballot grace period violates federal…

Ad Policy Protestors passing by the Google building during a rally for Palestine on October 4, 2025, in New York City. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images) Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University, to talk about his book Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism. They discuss the Sheikh Jarrah uprising and the digital front of the Palestinian struggle, the difference between “digital apartheid” and “digital settler colonialism,” Meta’s censorship, the IDF Unit 8200–Silicon Valley pipeline, how AI and tech infrastructure are being weaponized,…