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CNN:
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status  —  The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump's feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as “woke.”
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Trump says Powell's “termination can't come fast enough”  —  President Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday with the strongest suggestion yet of intentions to try to fire the nation's most powerful economic policymaker.  —  Why it matters: Trump's attack comes …
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
Trump Says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’  —  The president said that Jerome Powell has been too hesitant to cut interest rates, and “he should certainly lower them now.”  —  President Trump lashed out at Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve …
Phillip Inman / The Guardian:
ECB cuts rates for third time this year as Europe braces for Trump tariffs  —  Quarter-point cut in cost of borrowing aimed at combating slowing eurozone growth and impact of US border taxes  —  The cost of borrowing fell across the 20-member euro area for the third time this year on Thursday …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Powell Warns of ‘Challenging Scenario’ for Fed as Trade War Rages
Senator Chris Van Hollen / Senator Chris Van Hollen on YouTube:
Van Hollen speaks to press after meeting with El Salvador VP about return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia  —  Van Hollen speaks to press from El Salvador after meeting with El Salvador Vice President Félix Ulloa about return of wrongly deported Marylander Kilmar Abre...
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Associated Press:
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador's vice president in push for Abrego Garcia's release
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Boasberg Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Deportation Flights  —  The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.  —  A federal judge in Washington threatened on Wednesday …
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NPR:
Judge: ‘Probable cause’ to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
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Claire A. Michal / The Harvard Crimson:
DHS Threatens To Revoke Harvard's Eligibility To Host International Students Unless It Turns Over Disciplinary Records
Discussion: Yale Daily News
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet  —  Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.  —  The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump's “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said.
Discussion: The Defense Post
Washington Post:
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump's proposed health cuts  —  HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one third of its discretionary budget.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs …
Discussion: Axios, Politico, Raw Story, The Hill and STAT
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CNN:   Internal Trump administration document reveals massive budget cut proposal for federal health agencies
NBC News:
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack  —  After the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pa., last summer, Shapiro quickly condemned the violence and worked with the Trump campaign on the investigation.  —  After a man tried …
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
GOP Rep Says Arson On Shapiro's House Should Make Him ‘Tone It Down’ On Trump
Discussion: Politico, PennLive and Daily Kos
CNN:
Trump's pick to be DC's top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate  —  Ed Martin, the Trump administration's nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media appearances he's made in the past few years …
Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
We're About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The Trump administration is working hard to convince the public that its mass-deportation campaign is fully under way.
NBC News:
Federal judge calls Trump's order targeting prominent law firm a ‘shocking abuse of power’  —  Trump, three months into his term, has moved swiftly to use the powers of the presidency in unprecedented ways to punish, weaken and silence his enemies, experts say.
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Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps  —  This is your TPM evening briefing.  —  Extraordinary times call for extraordinary and strong language.  President Trump's plan to have migrants — and potentially U.S. citizens — rounded up, flown to El Salvador, and confined there in a maximum security facility …
Discussion: The Independent and Daily Kos
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards  —  Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.  —  Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month …
National Environmental Satellite …:
Notice of Changes  —  Estuarine Bathymetry  —  Name of product or service:  —  Estuarine Bathymetry  —  Type of change:  —  Product will be decommissioned  —  Description of change:  —  Estuarine Bathymetry is being decommissioned and will no longer be available.
Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:
CDC autism report disputes RFK Jr's claims about why the condition is on the rise  —  Experts attribute increase in case numbers to improved diagnostics as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr insists ‘epidemic’ underway  —  The number of U.S. children diagnosed with autism continues to rise …
Jennifer McDermott / Associated Press:
Trump administration issues order to stop construction on New York offshore wind project  —  The Trump administration issued an order Wednesday to stop construction on a major offshore wind project to power more than 500,000 New York homes, the latest in a series of moves targeting the industry.
Politico:
Top Pentagon official at center of Jackie Robinson controversy to resign  —  John Ullyot's departure comes during a week of upheaval at the Defense Department.  —  John Ullyot, the former top Pentagon spokesperson who found himself at the center of several controversies in the first months …
Bloomberg:
Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market … The company's share of EV sales in the state fell to 43.9% in the first quarter, from 55.5% a year ago, the California New Car Dealers Association said Wednesday.  Whereas Tesla registrations dropped 15%, sales of all other EVs increased 35% early this year.
New York Times:
Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program  —  The Texas House approved the plan, part of a push by President Trump's allies to offer up to $10,000 for private school, home-school or virtual learning.  —  The Texas House of Representatives voted early Thursday morning …
NPR:
DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data  —  The ad hoc Department of Government Efficiency team is assigning two staffers to work at the independent agency where a whistleblower alleged Tuesday DOGE may have already removed sensitive labor data from its systems.
New York Times:
A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza.  The U.S. Detained Him.  —  Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont.  He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.  —  As Columbia University's student protest …
 
 
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Leah Douglas / Reuters:
Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
Discussion: The Federalist and The Guardian
Melody Mercado / Block Club Chicago:
New Curfew Proposal Would Let Chicago Police Declare A Curfew Anytime, Anywhere In City
Noah Shachtman / Wired:
Marco Rubio Kills State Department Anti-Propaganda Shop, Promises ‘Twitter Files’ Sequel
Jordan Fischer / WUSA:
'I'm in ruins' | MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he can't pay thousands in court-ordered sanctions in election defamation case
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
CEO Mark Thompson tells employees that CNN plans to launch a streaming service in the fall; cable subscribers will have free access to the service

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
ESPN's forthcoming standalone streaming service will cost $30 per month, or $36 per month in a bundle with Disney+'s and Hulu's ad-supported tiers

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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