Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump  —  As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.

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

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 …

Trump Is Flirting With Economic Disaster  —  By threatening the independence of the Federal Reserve, the president risks undermining many of his key goals.  —  According to President Donald Trump, the banker he picked to lead the Federal Reserve is “WRONG.”  His reports are a “complete ‘mess!’”

Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says  —  The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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 …

Trump Releases Files on 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy  —  President Donald Trump's administration on Friday released more than 10,000 pages of files related to the 1968 assassination of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy, following through on an executive order aimed at declassifying documents …

Chart of the week: Trump is losing voters on the economy  —  Inflation got Donald Trump elected in 2024.  Now, his ratings on economic issues are at their lowest point ever, even worse than during COVID-19  —  The numbers on the economy are basically unanimous and relatively straightforward …

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 …

Travel to the U.S. from almost everywhere is falling under Trump  —  Charts show the scale of a steep drop in visitors from key countries and regions after President Donald Trump returned to office.  —  Overseas travel to the United States has declined sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office.

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.

DOGE is slashing 90% of a federal agency designed to prevent another financial crisis  — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated 90% of its staff.  — A termination notice seen by BI said employees would lose access to work systems on Friday night.

Under Trump, National Security Guardrails Vanish  —  America's adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say.  —  This month, a network of pro-Russian websites began a campaign aimed at undermining confidence in the U.S. defense industry, according to disinformation analysts.

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.

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 …

Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure  —  America has seen ruinous periods, but never when the president was the one knowingly causing the ruin.  —  By any reasonable measure, President Donald Trump's first 100 days will be judged an epic failure.  —  He has been a legislative failure.

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.

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.

Does It Matter If He's a Criminal?  —  The Justice Department, with Attorney General Pam Bondi most unseemingly leading the charge, is on a campaign to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man they have acknowledged was illegally sent to a prison used to house terrorists in El Salvador, as a bad guy.

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 …

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 …

Rubio's firing of Marocco ignites a MAGA world meltdown  —  When Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement.  —  Peter Marocco, the Trump administration official in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week …

New Trump policy to speed deportations cannot be implemented, US judge rules  —  A U.S. judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance …

Federal judge imposes new restrictions on DOGE's access to Social Security data  —  A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans.

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 …

THE ORIGIN  —  1.  —  The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.  —  2.  —  Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans.  This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.  —  3.

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 …