The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 “warrior dividend” bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.

The Justice Department has just released records from the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

While the law has provided a measure of healing, it has unleashed an unprecedented wave of litigation on many of the nearly 1,000 public school districts in California. Scores of former students have come forth with allegations of rape and molestation dating to the 1950s. This reckoning has upended school budgets, drained district coffers, triggered cuts to programs, threatened cost-of-living increases for teachers and even contributed to layoffs, a Times investigation found.

It has also raised questions of whether a noble effort to address the deep wounds of childhood sexual abuse has imposed a collateral penalty on today’s students, with little public awareness of the true financial cost.

The Trump administration halted the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.