How Trump’s Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart

A ProPublica investigation finds DHS’s flashy new tool for hunting “noncitizen voters” has delivered exactly what agency insiders warned it would: an “ungodly” number of false positives and almost nothing else. Despite intense White House pressure and DOJ leaders brushing aside privacy concerns about handing voter rolls to immigration enforcement, the crackdown has produced only a few dozen prosecutions nationwide — and even fewer convictions.

Trump Team’s Use of Arcane Budget Rule Threatens Medicaid Coverage

About 200,000 low-income Arkansans are facing major coverage changes after the Trump administration declined to renew a long-standing Medicaid waiver, citing authority in the president’s tax-and-spending law. Nearly every state runs its Medicaid program under similar federal waivers — so Arkansas’s predicament may be a preview of what’s coming elsewhere.

Trump’s ‘Forever’ Tariffs Are Kicking In for the Long Haul — and US Consumers Are Footing the Bill

Markets have stopped flinching at tariff headlines, but the price tag for households is only getting clearer. After the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s emergency tariffs in February, the administration returned with a broader replacement built on firmer legal ground — and consumer sticker shock is landing just as economic sentiment sours ahead of the midterms.

Congress Just Passed a Housing Law That Rewards States for Reform — Here’s Why Colorado Has a Head Start

A Colorado worker now needs to earn $36.44 an hour to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment — nearly two-and-a-half times the state minimum wage. Congress’s new 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act won’t write big checks, but it dangles competitive grants for states willing to loosen the zoning and permitting rules that choke off supply, and Colorado’s recent reforms put it first in line.

• Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities — how donor-advised funds quietly decide which causes lose support.
• Hospital Prepayment Requirements Add New Wrinkles to Patients’ Financial Responsibility — more hospitals are asking patients to pay estimated costs upfront.
• Years After He Quit Smoking, a Lung Cancer Scan Saved His Life — a case study for wider adoption of low-dose CT screening.
• Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution — trust gaps are slowing AI’s rollout in underserved areas.
• They Worked to Protect Public Health. Now They Want the Public’s Votes. — pandemic-era health officials are turning their fights into campaigns.
• Quitting Alcohol Changes the Brain and Can Increase the Risk of Compulsive Drinking — New Research in Mice — a surprising twist in the science of addiction recovery.
• Small Businesses at the Gateways to America’s National Parks Face 4 Big Risks — shifting boundaries and extreme weather threaten gateway-town economies.