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  • Transgender troops face a deadline and a difficult decision: Stay or go?

    06/06/2025 11:51:08 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 12:02 PM CDT, June 6, 2025 | LOLITA C. BALDOR
    WASHINGTON (AP) — As transgender service members face a deadline to leave the U.S. military, hundreds are taking the financial bonus to depart voluntarily. But others say they will stay and fight.For many, it is a wrenching decision to end a career they love, and leave units they have led or worked with for years. And they are angry they are being forced out by the Trump administration’s renewed ban on transgender troops.Active duty service members had until Friday to identify themselves and begin to leave the military voluntarily, while the National Guard and Reserve have until July 7. Then...
  • Trump’s visa crackdown plunges 275,000 Chinese students into uncertainty

    05/29/2025 6:24:22 PM PDT · by KingofZion · 74 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 29., 2025 | Kim Bellware
    More than a quarter-million Chinese students attending college in the United States saw their futures plunged into uncertainty Wednesday when the Trump administration announced an aggressive crackdown on student visa holders from that country. With an estimated 277,398 students pursuing primarily undergraduate and graduate degrees, China ranks only behind India among foreign countries with the highest number of students attending college in the U.S., according to data from the Institute of International Education. Since China’s middle-class boom in the early aughts, its students have flocked to U.S. institutions, which in turn welcomed the enrollment boost and mostly unsubsidized tuition fees....