Kilmar Abrego Garcia meets with Maryland senator in El Salvador, weeks after mistaken deportation  —  Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who immigration officials say was deported by error, in El Salvador on Thursday, Van Hollen's spokesperson confirmed to CBS News.

Rubio Says U.S. to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Soon  —  “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” the American secretary of state said as he departed meetings in Paris.  —  The United States will abandon efforts to end the war in Ukraine …

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.

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 …

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia  —  Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn't reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”  —  A U.S.-born American citizen …

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights  —  The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions …

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 …

US Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to enforce birthright citizenship order  —  The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, a key pillar …

House Democrats fume at David Hogg's plan to oust lawmakers  —  Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg's plan to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic incumbents in Congress has sparked intense anger from some lawmakers.  —  Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios that …

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.

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it  —  The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.  —  An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states …

Trump's newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators  —  Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.  —  In an unprecedented abuse of presidential power …

RFK Jr. Says There Are No Autistic Poets.  We Asked an Autistic Poet.  —  “I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week.”  —  To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to medical consensus and decades of study—autism is an appalling, family-destroying “disease.”

Trump's United States of Emergency  —  In his first 100 days, President Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern American history.  —  Why it matters: Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility …

DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review  —  DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.  —  The U.S. DOGE Service is putting new curbs on billions of dollars …

Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups  —  White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as standing in the way of President Donald Trump's push …

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 …

AP and the Trump administration argue over presidential access before appeals judges  —  The Associated Press and the Trump administration returned to a courtroom Thursday — and will be in another on Friday — as part of the high-stakes battle over who can control which journalists are able to question the president.

Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump  —  Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.  Currencies rise and fall all the time because of inflation fears, central bank moves and other factors.

The Abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Not About Politics  —  Forget about the poll numbers regarding immigration.  Democrats can focus on the economy and defend the Constitution at the same time.  —  Pragmatism is a worthy principle in politics.  If parties can't win elections, they can't shape policy.

U.S. intelligence contradicts Trump's justification for mass deportations  —  The determination is the most comprehensive assessment to date undercutting the president's rationale for deporting suspected gang members without due process.  —  The National Intelligence Council …

SCOTUS Can Let the President Break the Law; They Can't Change It … We are now cranking up another edition of the “will he or won't he” Trump song and dance, this time about firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell.  Trump manages to add an additional pungency to these dramas by trying to fire the guy who is actually his own Fed Chair.

Trump's War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More  —  More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death.  Nearly a quarter of adults received mental health treatment in 2023, an increase of 3.4 million from the prior year.

Google's digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box  —  Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost …

Prominent ultra-processed food researcher leaves NIH, alleges censorship  —  Kevin Hall, a leading expert on ultra-processed foods, has raised concerns about the future of nutrition research and science at NIH.  —  Six years ago, Kevin Hall led a landmark study providing the most compelling evidence …

Newsom sues DOGE over AmeriCorps cuts, saying it ‘gives the middle finger to volunteers’  —  The California governor announced the legal challenge late Thursday and vowed to accelerate recruitment for the California Service Corps program.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom …