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April 22, 2025
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Kurt Shillinger
Managing Editor

The stories that follow are all, in their own ways, tales of action and reaction. A president’s taunt stirred a defense of principle from within his own party. A wave of deportations from one country is rousing demands to strengthen the rule of law in another. Cuts in federal supports are seeding stronger bonds of community among farmers. A genocide has shaped a life of selfless purpose. A war is deepening trust in the spiritual armor of prayer. “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” wrote the Bard, “which, like the toad ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”


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Standing in front of a wall of flags, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell answers questions from reporters.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell answers questions from reporters at a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy, in Washington, March 19, 2025.
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A migrant deported from the United States stands in a hotel room in Panama City Feb. 20, 2025. A group was detained here and then in a jungle camp, putting Panama under a harsh spotlight as a "third country."
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Owner Ryan Voiland kneels in a greenhouse filled with young tomato plants at Red Fire Farm, in Montague, Massachusetts, April 9, 2025. Small-scale farms are struggling after the Trump administration froze U.S. Department of Agriculture grants in February.
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Marie Louise Kambenga, photographed in Fukushima, Japan, co-founded Think About Education in Rwanda, a Japan-based nonprofit, in 2000.
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Father Vitalii Kuzin (right) conducts an Easter service on April 19, 2025, near Dobropillia, a mining town in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, for troops of the 68th Jaeger Brigade.

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A Serbian student cyclist dressed as Spiderman raises his bicycle as he arrives in Munich during a bike ride to Strasbourg, France, April 11.

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American Susannah Scaroni, winner of the women's Boston Marathon wheelchair race, poses with Marcel Hug of Switzerland, winner of the men's race. On a lovely spring day in New England, the 129th convening of the world's oldest annual marathon drew more than 30,000 athletes from around the world Monday.

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