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The justices are weighing whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. A decision is expected this summer, when printing of the census forms is set to begin.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports Mexico's new president has won his first big battle, winning approval of his budget for 2001 from a divided congress. Dealing with the Mexican congress was expected to be one of the biggest challenges for Vicente Fox. Although analysts call the budget approval a political victory, it was not without cost. Fox was forced to give up spending money on big infrastructure projects, which he believes is the most effective way to lift people out of poverty. Instead, the money went to housing and social programs that more immediately help the poor. Fox's overall economic plan is in some jeopardy because oil prices have dropped below the lower limit his budget had anticipated. Oil revenues account for about a third of Mexico's budget.

Many big banks offer shockingly low interest rates on savings accounts. Moving your money to a smaller institution could bring better returns.

Two lonely souls bond over an injured border terrier with thousands of dollars in medical bills in Colin from Accounts — a bawdy, Australian series brimming with life and honesty.

The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, mandated standardized testing in the nation's public schools to establish a measure of accountability among states and school districts for the academic performance of their students. The pressures of such testing are most acutely felt among the schools which perennially have low scores, like Northwestern High School in Baltimore.

Paul Nehlen, who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's GOP primary, posted an image of Prince Harry's fiancée mocked up as a black Mesolithic Brit.

On Wednesday, scores of Democrats in Congress filed to sue President Trump. They believe he's violating the Emoluments Clause by profiting from foreign governments without congressional consent.

A former mayor in Mexico delivered lines that belonged to the malevolent fictional president. "Imitation isn't always the best form of flattery," the official House of Cards Twitter account said.

The club said it had terminated Brandon Taubman following a fuller investigation. The Astros had previously denied the account of a Sports Illustrated reporter who had written about his outburst.

The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to allow it to seize four mosques and a Manhattan skyscraper that are owned by a nonprofit group. The government says the group is a front for the Iranian government, which has been under economic sanctions for decades.