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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)

Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.(Image credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

House Speaker Mike Johnson is working with House Republicans to advance a budget bill that would allow Republicans to pass many of Trump's top policy priorities without threat of a Senate filibuster.(Image credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

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)

There is one economic riddle ahead of Super Bowl Sunday: The egg market has been hit hard by avian flu, but wings are abundant and relatively affordable this year. So what gives?(Image credit: Justin Sullivan)

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)

What do large crowds of people and water have in common? They both act like fluids. When crowds cheer, sway and clump together, the movements look like ripples of water. Researchers hope insights from physics like this one could help officials and engineers create safer crowds at festivals.Help shape the future of Short Wave by taking our survey: npr.org/shortwavesurveyListen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work […]

The rebels continued advances in eastern Congo despite their own announcement of a cease-fire. The U.N. secretary-general called for them to lay down their guns and agree to mediation.(Image credit: Moses Sawasawa)