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6 days ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Vermont on Monday for his scheduled naturalization interview. But instead of being granted citizenship, he was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which started the process to deport him.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Abdallah Fayyad
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, went into a US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Vermont on Monday for his scheduled naturalization interview. But instead of being granted citizenship, he was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which started the process to deport him.
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1 week ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
President Donald Trump’s tariff plan has rattled Wall Street, alarmed the United States’ trading partners, and made Americans afraid of checking their retirement accounts. It’s also been extremely confusing: After announcing that he would implement steep tariffs across the board (for reasons that didn’t make much sense), Trump walked back some of the tariffs before they were set to go into effect.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Abdallah Fayyad
President Donald Trump’s tariff plan has rattled Wall Street, alarmed the United States’ trading partners, and made Americans afraid of checking their retirement accounts. It’s also been extremely confusing: After announcing that he would implement steep tariffs across the board (for reasons that didn’t make much sense), Trump walked back some of the tariffs before they were set to go into effect.
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2 weeks ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
When President Donald Trump announced his tariffs last week, he also declared a national emergency. According to the White House, the emergency in question is “the large and persistent trade deficit,” or the fact that the United States imports more goods than it exports. If you’re confused about why that’s an emergency, you’re not alone. So are experts.
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3 weeks ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
Today is “Liberation Day,” according to President Donald Trump — the day he announces a slate of new tariffs. This is just the latest update to tariff policies that have already caused a good deal of whiplash since Trump took office in January. He threatened to impose tariffs on Colombia and canceled his plan to do so all in a single day. He rolled out a tariff plan for Canada and Mexico, only to postpone implementing it shortly after some tariffs went into effect.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Abdallah Fayyad
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. In almost all ways, the Liberty Hotel in Boston is like any other swanky hotel. It hosts galas, weddings, and New Year’s Eve parties.
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4 weeks ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
On Wednesday, masked plainclothes immigration officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, outside Tufts University, where she’s studying for a PhD. Video of her arrest, showing her being taken while walking down a street, has gone viral. Ozturk is now being held in a Louisiana detention center. This comes after a series of similar actions by the federal government.
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4 weeks ago | 
theashlandchronicle.com | Abdallah Fayyad |Coral Murphy Marcos |Daniel Lavelle |Tom Ambrose
The Social Security Administration — which distributes benefits to tens of millions of retired workers, people with disabilities, and their families — is in crisis. Since billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set its sights on finding fraud in Social Security, the agency has been trying to shed 12 percent of its workforce, or 7,000 workers.
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1 month ago | 
vox.com | Abdallah Fayyad
The Social Security Administration — which distributes benefits to tens of millions of retired workers, people with disabilities, and their families — is in crisis. Since billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set its sights on finding fraud in Social Security, the agency has been trying to shed 12 percent of its workforce, or 7,000 workers.
