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Divide Over Israel Remains After House Passes Generic “Anti-Hate” Measure
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An elderly woman in a wheelchair is rescued from the flood waters of tropical storm Harvey in east Houston, Texas.
Conflict
One of Houston’s most vulnerable communities faces the floods
A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door
Global Politics
Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump
Deadly Xenophobia, An NBA Revolt Against Trump, Life After Prison
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Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "
Conflict
Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.
Thanksgiving in Hibbing, Minnesota with the family of Korean-American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee.
Global Politics
A mundane Thanksgiving can be the ideal holiday gift
A woman stands in conference area in front of "Guatemala" sign
Business
How one woman went from ‘Why are these Mexicans here?’ to supporting immigrant businesses
Soccer player bites his with a trophy on the field
Sports
Euro 2016: Meet the player who scored ‘the most important goal in the history of Portuguese football’
Free Speech on Campus, Kleptocrats, Finding Identity
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Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
Books
Read this brilliant new poet’s take on the US immigrant experience
Baby Eva has yet to meet her Pakistani grandmother.
Justice
A Pakistani mom sets out to visit her new American granddaughter, and is turned back at the visa counter
A bus advertising an American visa lottery in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos.
Lifestyle
Nigerians vie for a life-changing slip of paper
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Justice
Central American kids wait in life-or-death limbo to see if they can stay in the US
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Arts, Culture & Media
How guinea pig, an Andean delicacy, is making its way onto dinner plates in the US
Lifestyle & Belief
Sudan’s pride is a soda that tastes like, well, whatever you think it tastes like
Karim Shamsi-Basha, who moved from Syria to attend the University of Tennessee in the 1980s, stands with his father, Kheridean Shamsi-Basha.
Lifestyle & Belief
In his first days in the US, a Syrian Muslim connected with Americans through the Bible