Election access, Akron ballot issues, Black public memory and artists’ control over political use of music.

The dispute is not simply about which programs deserve funding. It is about whether a president can cancel federal spending without obtaining a vote from Congress.

The federal government says it has removed approximately 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage as part of a sweeping effort to identify fraud, improper subsidies and enrollment records that officials say could not be verified. That is the headline. But it is not the whole story.