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Trump aims to lower drug prices. And, Harvard’s tax-exempt status threatened

Trump has signed an executive action aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. And, the president threatened to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after it rejected government demands.

Photos: Scientists trace a butterfly migration route that is millions of years old

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly’s annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world’s longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.

U.K. high court says trans women don’t meet definition of women under equalities law

Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that “the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”

Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the U.S. over tariffs

Hong Kong is caught in the middle of the trade disputes between the U.S. and China despite being a free port. The former British colony has trade and customs policies different from mainland China’s.

New Israeli ceasefire offer demands Hamas discuss disarming, but group rejects it

Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expressed optimism that a deal could be reached within weeks.

Dismantling Democracy in Hungary

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country’s democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that may of Orban’s strategies are being studied by politicians elsewhere.

Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.

Sudan’s war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place

As “pathway to peace talks” are held in London – minus the main protagonists – Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

How Trump’s cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria’s war crimes investigations

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

Gaza territory shrinks drastically as Israel seizes huge swaths of land

Israel’s military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

In Sudan, hundreds killed in attacks on famine-hit displacement camps

Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces has claimed it has taken control of famine-hit Zamzam camp, after days of deadly fighting in the Darfur region.

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