No, SNAP Benefits Aren't Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. A shopper carries a basket inside a grocery store in the Bronx borough of New York City on Oct. 24, 2025. As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps this weekend, far-right influencers, extremists, and conspiracy theorists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits. As a result of the government shutdown, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not be funded as of November 1, according to a message on the website of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the program.

The Apollo 11 moon landing was a seminal event in American history, one etched deeply into our nation's collective psyche. The event ushered in an era of unbridled possibilities -- the stars were finally coming into reach -- and its effects were felt across the culture, from art and fashion to politics and culture. In After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon, a multidisciplinary collection of historians, researchers and academics explore the myriad ways that putting a man on the moon impacted the American Experience. Reprinted with permission of the University of Florida Press. From NASA's very beginnings, immigrant engineers, scientists, and technicians lent their talent, labor, and technical skills to the space program.

The UK visa algorithm will be overhauled by the end of October. The UK government said Tuesday that it'll stop grading visa applications with an algorithm critics have called racist. From Friday of this week, a temporary system will be put in place to grade applications while the algorithm undergoes a redesign before being reintroduced by the end of October. "We have been reviewing how the visa application streaming tool operates and will be redesigning our processes to make them even more streamlined and secure," said a Home Office spokeswoman in a statement. The decision to suspend the use of the "streaming tool," which has been used by the UK Home Office since 2015, comes in direct response to a legal threat by tech accountability organization Foxglove and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI).

DoD clearly has recognized artificial intelligence (AI) as the next game-changer in military competition, with the Pentagon and the services pouring money into numerous development programs. Indeed, mastering AI and machine learning will be crucial to the new way of war envisioned by Pentagon leadership: Multi-Domain Operations. But the US government may be shooting itself in the foot by overlooking a key problem: a lack of American AI specialists, argues Megan Lamberth co-author of "The American AI Century: A Blueprint for Action," a new report from the Center for New American Security. The United States is engaged in a global technology competition in artificial intelligence. But while the US government has shown commitment to developing AI systems that will positively transform the American economy and national security, the country has neglected its most important resource: talent.

Immigrant rights campaigners have begun a ground-breaking legal case to establish how a Home Office algorithm that filters UK visa applications actually works. The challenge is the first court bid to expose how an artificial intelligence program affects immigration policy decisions over who is allowed to enter the country. Foxglove, a new advocacy group promoting justice in the new technology sector, is supporting the case brought by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) to legally force the Home Office to explain on what basis the algorithm "streams" visa applicants. The two groups both said they feared the AI "streaming tool" created three channels for applicants including a "fast lane" that would lead to "speedy boarding for white people". The Home Office has insisted that the algorithm is used only to allocate applications and does not ultimately rule on them.

Understanding the community conditions that best support universal access and improved childhood outcomes allows ultimately to improve decision-making in the areas of planning and investment across the early stages of childhood development. Here we describe two different data-driven approaches to visualizing the lived experiences of children throughout the City of Surrey, combining data derived from both public and private sources. In one approach, we find specifically that the Early Development Instrument measuring childhood vulnerabilities across varying domains can be used to cluster neighborhoods, and that census variables can help explain similarities between neighborhoods within these clusters. In our second approach, we use program registration data from the City of Surrey's Community and Recreation Services Division. We also find a critical age of entry and exit for each program related to early childhood development and beyond, and find that certain neighborhoods and recreational programs have larger retention rates than others. This report details the journey of using data to tell the story of these neighborhoods, and provides a lens to which community initiatives can be strategically crafted through their use.