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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship  —  The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue.  —  The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it would hear arguments in a few weeks …

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

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'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 …

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.

Gwen Walz on RFK Jr. comments: People with autism ‘contribute more to this nation than this man ever will’  —  Minnesota's first lady, Gwen Walz, slammed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert.  F Kennedy Jr. over comments he made about autism on Wednesday.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!).”

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.

Republican Opinion Shifts on Russia-Ukraine War  —  Democrats significantly more likely than Republicans to rate NATO positively and to say U.S. benefits from membership  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Democrats significantly more likely than Republicans to rate NATO positively and to say U.S. benefits from membership