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Actually, Most Immigrants Won’t Need to Leave U.S. to Get Green Cards, D.H.S. Says

But details remained scant after officials said in late last month that, with “extraordinary” exceptions, people seeking permanent residency must first leave the country. HAMED ALEAZIZ, MADELEINE NGO, & LYDIA DePILLIS The Department of Homeland Security sought on Friday, May 29 to clarify its announcement that immigrants seeking permanent residency would have to return to […]

Raising Dementia Awareness, One Black Church at a Time

Faith and science are coming together to reduce stigma and improve care in the African American community. DANA G. SMITH On a Thursday in April, a few hundred people, many of them older Black women, sat in the main hall at Impact Church, located in a converted warehouse near the airport in Atlanta. The windowless […]

Judge Says Trump Officials Must Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing

The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries. Zach Montague and Madeleine Ngo A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday June 5 struck down a slate of immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, writing […]

Black Maternal Mortality Is an Ongoing Crisis — And Doctors Continue to Sound the  Alarm

Maternal fetal medicine and family medicine physicians stress that we must keep fighting the glaring disparities in maternal mortality rates in the U.S. KIMBERLY RICHARDS Black women in the United States have the highest maternal mortality rate of any racial group — and it’s a crisis that should alarm everyone. Stories of Black women either […]

Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for De-naturalization

The Trump administration is assigning de-naturalization cases to regular prosecutors, which could lead to a surge of people stripped of U.S. citizenship ERNESTO LONDONO & HAMED ALEAZIZ The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of de-naturalizations by assigning the cases […]

The Silent Epidemic: Why Kidney Disease is a Test of American Healthcare

World Kidney Day was March 12, and here in the U.S., the conversation must be elevated from awareness to action, because the numbers are staggering. ANDREW O. BADDOO, MD More than 37 million American adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet approximately 90 percent of them don’t know they have it. Another […]

2 to 3 Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if It’s Decaf.

One to two cups of caffeinated tea per day helps too, researchers found after following nearly 132,000 people for 40 years. PAM BELLUCK If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you just might be right, new science suggests. A large new study provides evidence of cognitive benefits from […]

African indigenous foods that fight inflammation may help people with diabetes – research

TENDAIISHE BEREJENA & FLORENCE MALONGANE African indigenous food groups present an exciting area to explore when it comes to taste and nutrition. They may even offer potential as nutritional therapy for people with health problems. Foods like jute mallow, pearl and finger millet, wild medlar, caterpillars and bambara nuts all have nutritional properties that could […]

Yes, ‘Whiskey Dick’ Is Real (And Here’s What to Do If It Happens to You)

Experts give us the lowdown on a very annoying penis problem. BRITTANY WONG Drink responsibly, or you might fall victim to “whiskey dick.” There are few men of drinking age who haven’t experienced some performance challenges after a night of heavy drinking ― whether they struggle to get an erection or reach climax. In the […]

The Fulani women living under the control of JNIM jihadists in the Sahel

What is life like for the women living in the central Sahel, in areas controlled by the jihadist JNIM group? British researchers spoke with women from the Fulani ethnic group, which is strategically targeted for recruitment to the JNIM. In a report published on Monday, December 8, 2025, the UK research program Xcept said that […]

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