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America's global student edge is slipping

A column chart that shows new international student enrollments at U.S. colleges by school year from 2015 to 2025. Enrollments fell from 301 thousand in 2015 to 146 thousand in 2020, rebounded to 299 thousand in 2023, then declined to an estimated 230 thousand in 2025.

New international student enrollments at U.S. colleges

Data: Open Doors, IIE; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios

The majority-minority shift changing rural America

A map showing rural counties in the U.S. as of 2023. Of 1,957 rural counties, 221, or 11.3% are majority-minority. Most of these counties are in the southwest, deep South, and Alaska.

Axios Visuals: 2026-08-04-rural-minority

Data: U.S. Census, USDA; Note: Census data and BLS rural designations are released in different years; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals

Scoop: Trump team tells GOP to lean in on health care

What to know about the DOJ's massive marriage fraud blitz

ICE to spend up to $20M on electric shock gloves

Mullin faces MAGA backlash at Homeland Security

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Inside the GOP's mad dash to recess finish line

Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders

"Entrapment": Trump's immigration delays fuel jump in ICE arrest targets

Trump deportations cost taxpayers $2,358 each

A choropleth map showing the estimated cost per taxpayer for federal immigrant deportation and detention funding across the U.S. states. The average cost is $2.4k. Washington, D.C., has the highest load, at $3.9k.

Estimated cost per taxpayer for federal immigrant deportation and detainment funding

Data: Economic Policy Institute; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios

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