Undocumented teens already live with deportation fears, but now getting into college is a whole new challenge. States like South Carolina are blocking them from public universities or taking away in-state tuition, making college unaffordable for many who have spent nearly their whole lives in the U.S.
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Young, undocumented immigrants are finding it increasingly hard to attend college as South Carolina and other states restrict in-state tuition or ban them altogether
Not letting undocumented students pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities can make the cost of a college education prohibitive.
Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia, which contains 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may become the newest U.S. national park. But here's the catch: the redesignation won't actually offer additional legal protection or funding for the site.
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What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find out
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
Hanukkah’s story of the heroism of Judah Maccabee and his brothers ignores two inspiring women who were prominent in the earliest tellings of the story.
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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday’s forgotten heroes: Women
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which in 2022 begins on the evening of Dec. 18, focuses on the story of the male Maccabees. But women are also her...
The new film “Nuremberg” highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
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The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whe...
The NIH paused funding for growing human organs inside pigs in 2015 over fears that human cells might make pigs too human. Yet regulators now approve putting pig organs in humans. A bioethicist examines the inconsistent logic.
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not – why is that?
How many human cells does a pig need before it’s considered too human?
Jewish Christmas traditions date back centuries in Europe. But in the U.S., new traditions arose, with Chinese food becoming the most famous way Jews marked a day when most of the world shut down.
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Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews
What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a shift for Christian...