News highlights from the week that was:

• Poor Americans are set to lose at least 4.1 billion in food stamp benefits.

• How India’s heavy-handed female sterilization program fails women and population control.

• A Nevada woman was arrested in family court after she complained to the judge that a marshall had sexually assaulted her during a routine drug search.

• Bloomberg LP is facing a class action lawsuit by employees who say the company cheated them out of overtime.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]