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Trump administration sued by government workers over cuts to USAID  Reuters Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Directly Calls for U.S.A.I.D. to Be Shut Down  The New York Times Trump doubles USAID staff he’s keeping while calling for agency shutdown  POLITICO Recall of USAID’s

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation’s education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display. (Image credit: Jose Luis Magana/AP; Getty Images; Photo collage/NPR)

Republicans race to release plans to advance Trump policy agenda in Congress  NPR Wall Street Prepares to Defend Carried Interest, a Favored Tax Break, Again  The New York Times The Latest: House Republicans focus on Trump’s big budget package  The Washington Post House

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)