The place is home to imperiled marbled murrelets, northern spotted owls and Humboldt martens, as well as elk, deer and mountain lions.
Vladyslav Plyaka poses for a photo at Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)An avalanche of policies from the Trump administration — such as
to study in the U.S., halting allat Harvard — have triggered lawsuits, countersuits and confusion. Foreign students say they feel targeted on multiple fronts. Late Wednesday, Trump himself took the latest action against international students, signing anbarring nearly all foreigners from entering the country to attend Harvard.
In interviews, students from around the world described how it feels to be an international student today in America. Their accounts highlight pervasive feelings of fear, anxiety and insecurity that have made them more cautious in their daily lives, distracted them from schoolwork and prompted many tobecause they fear not being allowed to return.
For many, the last few months have forced them to rethink their dreams of
Markuss Saule, a freshman at Brigham Young University-Idaho, took a recent trip home to Latvia and spent the entire flight back to the U.S. in a state of panic.The benefits of his pre-K proposal would be much broader and would include increasing the state’s workforce by enabling more parents to go back to work, Beshear said. And it would help ease the financial strain on parents with young children, he said.
“American families right now are struggling, struggling to pay the bills, and child care is a big part of that,” Beshear said. “Pre-K for all could ease the financial burden facing our hardworking families and make paying those bills not just a little but a lot easier.”Beshear on Wednesday did not delve into how much state-funded preschool would cost, but he pointed to a study indicating every $1 invested in pre-K generates $10 cycling through the state economy.
Leading up to the 2024 legislative session, Beshear’sincluded $172 million each year of the following two-year budget cycle to provide preschool for 4-year-olds. Beshear has said the expense is “more than affordable,” amounting to a fraction of the massive surplus in the state’s budget reserve trust fund. That preschool proposal and others like it have made no headway with GOP lawmakers.