FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say  —  The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities.

Trump Has for Months Privately Discussed Firing Fed Chair Powell  —  The president hasn't made a decision on whether to try to oust Powell, and some of his advisers have warned against the move  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has for months privately discussed firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell …

Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; multiple patients hospitalized  —  The university sent out an alert urging students to seek shelter as a shooter was reported in the area of the student union. … FSU was site of shooting in 2014

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on whether Trump can implement birthright citizenship plan  —  The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will hear …

Appeals court won't lift order to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia's return in blistering opinion  —  The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday declined to lift a judge's order that the Trump administration “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, admonishing the Justice Department in the ruling.

Top House Republicans refuse to authorize El Salvador trips  —  House Republican committee chairs are refusing to authorize Democrats' requests to lead official congressional delegations to El Salvador, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Democrats want to go to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo …

Trump appointee asked IRS to review audit of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell  —  Experts say the outreach on behalf of Lindell, a Trump political ally, is highly unusual and represents a change in how political appointees engage with the IRS.

As Garber Stands Against Trump, Money From Harvard Donors Pours In  —  After Harvard publicly rejected the Trump administration's demands, a wave of support — and money — has come rushing in.  —  In the 24 hours after Harvard President Alan M. Garber '76 announced that he would not comply …

Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale? … Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism.  —  The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding.

The CFPB Has Been Gutted  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,400 of the agency's 1,700 employees; medical debt and student loans will now be deprioritized.  —  More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated …

James Carville says he might sue ‘contemptible little twerp’ David Hogg for challenging incumbent Democrats  —  NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo appeared to egg James Carville on, telling the veteran Democratic strategist to ‘sue his punk a**’  —  James Carville railed against Democratic …

A Depleted Hamas Is So Low on Cash That It Can't Pay Its Fighters  —  Israel has disrupted the Gaza militant group's sources of cash and ability to distribute it  —  Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file.

‘We are all afraid’: Speaking to Alaska nonprofit leaders, Murkowski gets candid on upheaval in federal government  —  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a room full of Alaska nonprofit leaders that the tumult of tariffs, executive orders, court battles, and cuts to federal services under …

Leaked: Palantir's Plan to Help ICE Deport People  —  Palantir, the surveillance giant, is taking on an increased role with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation, according to Palantir Slacks and other internal messages obtained by 404 Media.

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Four days before Donald Trump's inauguration …

Former FAA Contractor Pleads Guilty to Illegally Acting as an Agent of the Iranian Government  —  For Immediate Release  —  Former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contractor Abouzar Rahmati, 42, a naturalized U.S. citizen and resident of Great Falls, Virginia, pleaded guilty today …

America's Mad King … Last monday, Donald Trump, seeking to fortify public support for his massive, across-the-board tariffs, posted: “The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO.  Don't be Weak!  Don't be Stupid!  Don't be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!).”

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately  —  Dr. Lisa Anderson, 58, was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen.  —  A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’  —  Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status  —  Nearly 300 academics have applied to a French university's offer to take in US-based researchers rattled …

Trump's First-Quarter Approval Rating Below Average, at 45%  —  Americans' 44% confidence in Trump to manage economy similar to his first term, but better than other U.S. leaders  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump is closing out the first quarter of his second term in office …

What's Happening Is Not Normal.  America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.  —  In the beginning there was agony.  Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must.  —  But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization …

BYU Ph.D. student's international student visa revoked over apparent fishing license violation  —  A Brigham Young University Ph.D. candidate from Japan has had his international student visa revoked — perhaps because of a fishing violation from years ago.  —  Outside of a couple …

This ‘College Protester’ Isn't Real.  It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops  —  Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

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US-born citizen being held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law  —  Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court.