United States at 250: Seven tests of the American experiment
Seven stories test America’s promises of freedom, opportunity and power as the United States marks its 250th year.

Seven stories test America’s promises of freedom, opportunity and power as the United States marks its 250th year.




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Calls for answers after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo fatally shot during traffic stop in Houston in latest ICE killing.
Hannah Dugan’s sentence comes after she helped an immigrant in the US avoid ICE agents waiting to arrest him in 2025.
Man, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, is latest to be killed by ICE officers since President Trump took power.

Many South Africans are hoping to secure the jobs left vacant by the departure of foreigners
Teams shaped by migration and diaspora are challenging exclusionary ideas of who belongs.
Save the Children says families in and around the city of el-Obeid are facing increasingly difficult conditions.
Benito Miranda Hernandez completed three tours during the Iraq war but now faces removal from the US to Mexico.
Pontiff urges people in Europe and US to welcome and assist migrants during symbolic trip to Italy’s frontier island.
Influential figures deliver speeches evoking US ideals to counter President Trump’s hardline immigration policies.
Immigrants with temporary protection more likely to work in healthcare, representing 15 percent of noncitizen workers.