During the Trump administration, B.’s future — like that of the University’s nearly 6,800 international students — is in limbo. As legal immigrants are arrested, detained, and deported across the country, many are taking extraordinary precautions, including deleting social media accounts and hesitating to speak on record to the press.
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Buddhist visitors caress the Chinese character for “greed and profit” and point at the character for “heart” as worshippers crowd toward an engraving of the Heart Sutra in Hangzhou’s Lingyin Temple on December 28, 2025.
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As she carries yarn to take outside for community members to pick up, Meg Grady looks out the window while emptying a house for sale on Monday, March 30, 2026. She posted the yarn on the neighborhood “Buy Nothing” page, where community members give away things locally instead of selling them. Meg Grady works as both a financial consultant and a real estate agent in East Boston, as well as a parent of a 7-year-old.
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Sharon Latham and Doug Latham speak to documentary filmmakers about their experiences with Christianity at the closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish in Chicago, IL near the suburb Dolton on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Newly elected pope Leo XIV used to attend the church in his childhood. The parish closed in 2011 when it combined with the nearby Queen of Apostles Parish, according to a Chicago Catholic article published at the time.
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Jewish Columbia University students use bike locks to attach themselves to the gates of the university in an act of solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil who is facing deportation for his role in the student encampment.
