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Amy Cupp hugs her daughter, G, for a portrait in her home in northern Indiana. G is 12 and has multiple disabilities. Cupp has filed a federal complaint over G’s treatment in school but says the process stalled after President Trump’s cuts to the U.S. Education Department. Kaiti Sullivan for NPR hide caption toggle caption […]

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has recalled two dozen generic medicines sold to American patients because the Indian factory that made them failed to comply with U.S. manufacturing standards and the Food and Drug Administration determined […]

Army Corp of Cadets march on the field before the Army/Navy game on Dec. 14, 2024 in Landover, Md. Patrick Smith/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick Smith/Getty Images A senior Army official ordered Army libraries, including West Point, to remove all books “with the explicit and sole purpose of directly and overtly promoting DEI, […]

President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images A Maryland federal judge wants to find out if government officials are acting in “bad faith” in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly sent […]

Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) speaks during the House Oversight Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is calling for an investigation into DOGE’s access to the National Labor Relations Board following exclusive NPR reporting […]

An asylum seeker reacts while waiting for news on her appointment with U.S. authorities before crossing through El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 20, 2025. Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is moving to fast-track cases in immigration court […]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) (left), and Ken Cuccinelli (background), former attorney general of Virginia, hold a news conference on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol to introduce the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act,” which would mandate proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections, […]

Congress could implement work requirements as part of revamping and downsizing Medicaid. vm/Getty Images/E+ hide caption toggle caption vm/Getty Images/E+ For many years, Eric Wunderlin’s health issues made it hard to find stable employment. Struggling to manage depression and diabetes, Wunderlin worked part-time, minimum-wage retail jobs around Dayton, Ohio, making so little that he said […]

President Trump has ordered all federal funding of public media cease. In March, NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger testified such cutbacks would hurt local member stations that serve as a free source of news, education, entertainment, and disaster preparedness information for areas poorly served by corporately owned media. DREW ANGERER/AFP via […]