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An attendee wears a Save Job Corps shirt during a House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing in Washington, DC, on June 5. Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images CNN  —  By the time he was 18, Noah had lived in more foster homes than he could count, passed from family to family from the time he was a two-year-old. There was one year when he lived in more than 20 houses.

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The US Department of Education building is seen in Washington, DC, February 13, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images CNN  —  The US Department of Education is paying more than $7 million a month to employees it has forced to go on leave, according to analysis from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252, the union that represents department employees. The payments could continue for years amid a long court battle over cuts instituted by the Trump administration.

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A sign on the Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is seen September 1, 2015. Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald/Getty Images CNN  —  At Mount Holyoke College, a liberal arts school some 90 miles west of Boston, administrators have few answers so far for their perspective international students who are no longer certain they will be allowed to study in the US.

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The US Department of Education headquarters in Washington, DC. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images CNN  —  It was Easter Sunday, and an IRS agent in Atlanta found herself driving her son to the hospital because he was having a severe allergic reaction. But her son’s well-being wasn’t the only issue that day: She also didn’t have health insurance.

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Video Ad Feedback Museum programs like this one could be history after Trump’s cuts 03:25 - Source: CNN Museum programs like this one could be history after Trump’s cuts 03:25 CNN — For 60 years, Boston’s Museum of African American History has transported people to the past, letting visitors to a 200-year-old meeting house see where abolitionists like Frederick Douglass spoke and walk through halls where young Black soldiers once rallied to fight in the Civil War. But recently, the museum’s...