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About 1.5 million people teach on college campuses in the United States, and nearly 4 million teachers work in its public elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 million undergraduates attend U.S. colleges and universities. There are more than 50 million school-age children across the country.

They all have one thing in common: Federal education policy affects their lives.

President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon say they want to close the Department of Education and return control of education to the states. At the same time, however, they have aggressively and rapidly wielded federal power over schools.

The Hechinger Report takes a look at some key data points from the first year of Trump’s second term that represent the outsized effect this presidency has had on the nation’s educational institutions and the people within them.

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Number of executive orders Trump signed that exclusively address colleges or schools

In 2017, the first year of his first term, Trump signed two executive orders related to education. This year, he signed three times that number on just a single day in April.

Among his most notable executive orders was one early in his term requiring the Department of Education to begin dismantling itself. He also established an Artificial Intelligence Education Task Force and asked cabinet members to provide him with a plan to end “radical indoctrination” in schools. Other executive orders have addressed school discipline, transgender athletes, registered apprenticeships and foreign influence on college campuses.

Another set of executive orders indirectly affected schools. For instance, the Department of Education interpreted an order about undocumented immigrants to require limiting access to some adult and career and technical education programs. And separately, in a

Por Anabella González y Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español

Nicole Pardo, una joven mexico-estadounidense creadora de contenido que estaba desaparecida desde el 20 de enero en el estado de Sinaloa, en el noroeste de México, fue localizada con vida, informó este sábado la Fiscalía General de Sinaloa.

“#FiscalíaSinaloa agradece la colaboración ciudadana, NICOLE PARDO MOLINA, ya fue localizada”, escribió la Fiscalía en una publicación en Instagram junto a la ficha de búsqueda de la joven, que es conocida en redes sociales como La Nicholette.

CNN contactó a la Fiscalía de Sinaloa y desde allí confirmaron que Pardo fue localizada con vida y se encuentra bien de salud.

CNN intenta obtener más información sobre el caso.

La Fiscalía de Sinaloa difundió esta semana una ficha de búsqueda en la que se indicaba que Pardo fue vista por última vez el 20 de enero en el fraccionamiento Isla Musalá, en Culiacán, la capital de Sinaloa, que desde septiembre de 2024 ha visto un aumento en los niveles de violencia por lo que autoridades describen como enfrentamientos entre grupos criminales.

Las autoridades habían activado un operativo de búsqueda en la ciudad, donde autoridades estatales y federales intentaban dar con su paradero.

El caso cobró notoriedad pública después de que en redes sociales circulara un video supuestamente grabado por la cámara de seguridad del vehículo de la joven —una camioneta Tesla Cybertruck color lila—, donde se aprecia el momento en el que varios hombres armados la interceptan y la fuerzan a subir a otro automóvil.

CNN intenta verificar la autenticidad del video y saber si forma parte de las investigaciones del caso.

Pardo tiene 20 años, dice que divide su tiempo entre Sinaloa y Phoenix, Arizona, y tiene una presencia destacada en redes sociales, donde suma más de 180.000 seguidores en Instagram y más de 145.000 en TikTok. También tiene un canal de YouTube y una cuenta en la plataforma OnlyFans.

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By Kevin Liptak, Lauren Kent, CNN

Washington, DC, and London (CNN) — US President Donald Trump praised British troops Saturday after sustained outrage over comments he made this week downplaying the sacrifices of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

“The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors,” he continued. “It’s a bond too strong to ever be broken. The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!). We love you all, and always will!”

The message came after furious reaction to comments the president made minimizing the role NATO forces played in Afghanistan. The president’s remarks rankled US allies in NATO, coming at the end of a week in which he severely strained the alliance through his threats to seize control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, another NATO member.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prince Harry, who served in the conflict, were among those who criticized the comments, with Starmer calling them “insulting and frankly appalling.”

Starmer later raised the issue on a call with Trump on Saturday, in which they discussed “the brave and heroic British and American soldiers who fought side by side in Afghanistan, many of whom never returned home,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US became the first and so far only NATO member to invoke Article 5, which states that an attack against one member is an attack against all. For 20 years, NATO allies and other partner countries fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan.

“We’ve never needed them,” Trump said of NATO in an interview on Thursday with Fox Business. “We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, little off the front lines.”

“If I had misspoken in that way or said those words, I would certainly apologize,” Starmer said Friday.

The White House initially shrugged off Starmer’s criticism and insisted Trump was correct in his sentiments.

“President Trump is absolutely right — the United States of America has done more for NATO than any other country in the alliance has done combined,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, said when asked to respond to Starmer’s comments.

Starmer and Trump in their call Saturday “discussed the need for bolstered security in the Arctic,” Downing Street said, after a tense week of diplomacy regarding Greenland and Trump’s announcement of a “framework deal” in relation to the autonomous territory.

“The leaders discussed the importance of the UK-US relationship, which continues to stand the test of time,” the Downing Street readout concluded. “They agreed to speak soon.”

Trump’s social media post Saturday came amid intense backlash over h

By Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillips, CNN

(CNN) — As public health departments across the country prepared for a massive winter storm this weekend, notice landed in their inboxes that pivotal grant funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was paused. No more money could be spent.

Within hours, a US Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the pause had been lifted, although grant recipients said they had yet to get an update from HHS.

“It’s just more chaos, more uncertainty,” said Dr. Phil Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in Texas. “It just interferes with our ability to provide these public health services to our community.”

No grants were terminated, according to HHS.

“The Public Health Infrastructure Grants were temporarily paused so HHS could implement a new review process, one that will ensure funds are used for their intended purposes and in alignment with agency priorities,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an email to CNN. “HHS will continue to protect taxpayer money and ensure they are used for legitimate purposes.”

According to the CDC, the grants funded health departments in 50 states and Washington, DC, eight territories and 48 large localities. As of December 2025, $5.1 billion had been awarded: $4.7 billion to 107 health departments and $382 million to national partners. Funds are used for lab testing, responding to and preparing for emergencies and direct patient care. They paid for thousands of public health jobs across the country.

For several hours Saturday, it seemed that this funding pause would come on top of cuts to Covid-era funding that states and local governments absorbed last year.

Huang said Dallas County’s grant, worth more than $2 million, was used for key systems for disease investigation and surveillance, vaccine management – including check-in systems for large public vaccination events – and everyday activities like patient transportation.

There are already systems in place to track spending and ensure that money is used as intended, public health officials said.

The pause notices sent Saturday — and apparent quick reversal — echoed an earlier pivot by the Trump administration, which announced cuts to thousands of grants for substance abuse and mental health this month before abruptly reversing course.

Chrissie Juliano, executive director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, said that a brief pause won’t have any serious impact, but it’s a fire drill in the middle of other emergencies. It also raises questions about whether “safe” dollars that officials expected to last for years will be available and as flexible for public health agencies trying to meet local needs.

“It takes people away from preparing for helping people in the middle of a winter storm,” Juliano said. “It makes people question what’s coming next. Which shoe is going to drop, and what program is going to be cut?”

Public Health Infrastructure Grant funds were meant to be a once-in-a-generation investment in staffing and training public health departments, said

* WHAT…Northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
expected.

* WHERE…Santa Susana Mountains.

* WHEN…From 7 AM to 1 PM PST Sunday.

* IMPACTS…Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

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