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Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire while in office in 2012. (Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A leader of Thailand’s protest movement, a 22-year-old student, is on a hunger strike that put him in a wheelchair and tethered to a saline drip. Denied bail, he has been in prison for more than 50 days.

Sunday’s Oxford and Cambridge boat race won’t be held on the River Thames for the first time since WWII. The Hammersmith Bridge is in danger of falling into the waterway where the race passes through.

Mastercard will invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business, two firms said today, just two weeks after TPG’s Rise Fund also backed the telecommunications firm’s unit. The London-headquartered firm said it was taking a minority stake in Airtel

Remarks by President Biden on the American Jobs Plan  The White House FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan  Whitehouse.gov White House unveils $2 trillion infrastructure and climate plan, setting up giant battle over size and cost of government  The Washington Post Here’s what’s

A Proclamation on Transgender Day Of Visibility, 2021  The White House

The number of immigrants in detention peaked under former President Donald Trump. Now those detention centers have emptied out, but ICE is still paying more than $1 million a day for empty beds. (Image credit: Ruth Talbot/NPR)

A year into the pandemic, the agency’s staffers reflect on what it’s been like to fight the biggest public health battle in their history and how they’re working to rebuild public trust in science. (Image credit: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty

Current and former officials say that the executive order could mean that some pretrial detainees are housed hours away from courthouses where their cases will be heard, diverting resources. (Image credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AP)

Gun violence prevention advocates are heralding the proposed funding, saying it would be a historic investment in urban communities. (Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)