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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)

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)

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)

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)

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life sentence in her state, which doesn't have the death penalty.(Image credit: Jake May/MLive.com)

The move came one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports. (Image credit: Eakin Howard)

In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately. (Image credit: Stefani Reynolds)

Two letters from different groups of senators call for answers from the Trump administration about pauses in scientific communications and funding.(Image credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg)

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