Blog Verité

This week calls for some throwback thinking. If you can recall how Roman numerals work, you’ll get at least one question correct.

It’s common for young people leaving jails and prisons to end up back behind bars, often after lapses related to untreated mental illness or substance abuse. A new law will help them get Medicaid. (Image credit: Oona Zenda)

White House pressures ICE to pick up pace of migrant arrests, sources say  CNN

“We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa emphatically told his nation’s Parliament on Thursday. “We are witnessing the rise of nationalism, protectionism, the pursuit of narrow interests and the decline of common cause,” Ramaphosa said during his

President Trump signed a series of executive actions that would limit transgender and nonbinary people’s rights by focusing on “gender ideology.” But the term is loaded, without a universal definition. (Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of others. (Image credit: Charlie Riedel)

Trump has long felt that Japan and other wealthy allies take advantage of the U.S., racking up big trade surpluses, while paying too little for the cost of American military protection. (Image credit: Kevin Wolf)

Alaska authorities search for missing small plane  BBC.com Crews searching open waters in Alaska for flight that went missing with 10 on board  CNN Alaska: Search underway for missing passenger plane  DW (English) Crews searching for missing plane in Alaska carrying 10 people  Fox

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also suggested that “there should be no negotiations

NPR’s A Martinez speaks with Eugene Cho, president of Bread for the World, about how the tumult at the U.S. Agency for International Development is affecting efforts to fight global food insecurity.