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.

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.

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.”

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!).”

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 …

Ex-New York Times editorial page editor apologizes to Sarah Palin at defamation trial  —  An emotional former opinion page editor for The New York Times delivered a tearful apology Thursday to Sarah Palin as he testified about a 2017 editorial that she says damaged her reputation.