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Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind Without Expanded DACA Protections, Undocumented Students Are Being Left Behind

Around 80 percent of the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who graduated high school in 2023 don’t qualify for DACA. “That number is going to continue to decline.”

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People prepare to transfer the body of a World Central Kitchen WCK worker killed by Israeli airstrikes, near the Rafah border crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 3, 2024.

Israel’s Attacks on Gaza Are Not “Mistakes.” They’re Crimes. Israel’s Attacks on Gaza Are Not “Mistakes.” They’re Crimes.

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This Supreme Court Case Could Worsen Maternal Health Nationwide

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The Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, 1965.

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Pacita Abad Wove the Women of the World Together

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The island’s health system is on its knees. Doctors are fleeing in droves. And the crisis is hurting kids most of all.

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Meet Claudia Sheinbaum, Who May Be Mexico’s First Woman President

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