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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Mike Waltz out as national security adviser, but Trump says he'll be ambassador to U.N.  —  National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, according to multiple sources familiar with their departure.
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Politico:
Trump ousts Mike Waltz as national security adviser  —  Names for a replacement have been discussed around the West Wing for weeks.  —  President Donald Trump ousted Mike Waltz, who has lost the confidence of other administration officials, from his national security adviser position on Thursday.
Axios:
Why Trump's White House turned on Mike Waltz  —  Mike Waltz has been a dead man walking for the past month, and the outgoing national security adviser started to act like it, Trump administration sources tell Axios.  —  Why it matters: “Signalgate” badly damaged Waltz, but it wasn't his only problem.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Secretary of Everything  —  The former senator from Florida is now the head of four government bodies.  He has outdone Henry Kissinger and even Xi Jinping, China's leader, who has only three main titles.  —  Secretary of state.  Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Washington Post:
Trump gives commencement address at University of Alabama
Fox News:
Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers out in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak
Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump names Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz as UN ambassador
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under the Alien Enemies Act  —  A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was “unlawful.”
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CNN:
Trump-appointed judge says president's use of Alien Enemies Act is unlawful in first-of-its-kind ruling
emptywheel:
Stephen Miller's Snowballing Deportation Deceptions
Discussion: Townhall, New Republic and Fox News
New York Times:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans
Politico:
House Republicans look to sunset clean energy credits, hike endowment tax  —  Republicans on the House Ways and Means committee are starting to nail down the contours of their tax package, which could include sunsetting most or all of the clean energy tax credits from the Democrats' 2022 climate law …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
GOP leaders take more time for key megabill markup after Medicaid snags
Discussion: The Hill
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Army plans for a potential parade on Trump's birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns  —  Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump's birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly …
Discussion: USA Today, Raw Story and Mediaite
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal With Trump From a Case  —  The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president's executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.  —  When big law firms attacked by President Trump decided …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Microsoft drops a law firm that appeased Trump, hires firm that's fighting Trump
Discussion: Above the Law
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Orders to Investigate Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms in Justice Dept.  —  Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a list of activists and investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.  —  A top Trump appointee in the Justice Department ordered …
Dan Garisto / Nature:
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones … - Dan Garisto  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice …
Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics … A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
New York Times:
There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump's Power Grab  —  The first 100 days of President Trump's second term have done more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction.  Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts …
Erin Schumaker / Politico:
Tulsi Gabbard is out to prove Covid came from a lab  —  The director of national intelligence told podcast host Megyn Kelly she's working with top HHS officials to investigate Covid-19's origins.  —  National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's office is working with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya …
Discussion: The Daily Wire, Megyn Kelly and TMZ.com
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Harshita Meenaktshi / Reuters:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports  —  U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Propose Slashing $163 Billion in Government Programs in Budget Blueprint  —  The president's budget wish list would cut health research, climate and education programs  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to propose far-reaching cuts to federal environmental, renewable energy …
Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order.  Others are expected to fall  —  When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Ilhan Omar Cusses Out Right-Wing Reporter Over Question on Wrongfully Deported Man  —  NO REGRETS  —  A reporter from The Daily Caller asked whether the Democratic lawmaker would encourage more of her colleagues to fly to El Salvador.  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar had no patience for a right-wing journalist …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Spooked By Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’  —  Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before Trump's tariffs cause prices to skyrocket … Well, many Americans aren't listening to that advice, according to survey data this year …
Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story and The Hill
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Ed Martin, Trump's controversial U.S. attorney pick, on thin ice in the Senate  —  President Trump's pick to be Washington's top prosecutor appears to be in trouble with Senate Republicans.  No GOP senator has said they will oppose Ed Martin to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion in Grants for Student Mental Health  —  Congress authorized the money in a bipartisan breakthrough around addressing gun violence after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers.
Discussion: NPR, ABC News and The Daily Wire
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
HHS redirects $500 million to Trump appointee's vaccine project, bypassing reviews  —  The Department of Health and Human Services has transferred $500 million from research into next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, redirecting the money to a single vaccine project linked to the Trump …
Washington Post:
Fired DOJ attorney says on TikTok that Trump pardons cost $1 billion  —  Liz Oyer says Americans lost out on restitution because President Donald Trump sidestepped the usual clemency process to pardon allies.  —  Liz Oyer, the Justice Department's recently fired pardon attorney …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages  —  Mike Waltz, who was until Thursday U.S. National Security Advisor, has inadvertently revealed he is using an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages …
Maxine Joselow / Washington Post:
Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants  —  If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.  —  The Senate voted Thursday to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule limiting …
Discussion: CBS News and Los Angeles Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump's attacks on judges  —  The Supreme Court justice warned Thursday that increasingly hostile rhetoric poses a dire threat to the country's political fabric.  —  RIO GRANDE, PUERTO RICO — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully condemned attacks …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
At a Dubai Conference, Trump's Conflicts Take Center Stage  —  A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the beginning.”
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it ‘illegal DEI’  —  A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Charles Gaba / ACA Signups:
And So It Begins: Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire  —  via Bruce Japsen at Forbes, the first shoe has dropped: … Below I list the 17 states where CVS/Aetna is pulling out of the ACA market.  —  IMPORTANT: I've included my estimate …
Discussion: Forbes and STAT
O. Rose Broderick / STAT:
STAT+: Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry  —  SEATTLE — Michael VanPelt spent several weeks recently glued to his telephone, dialing doctors who might be able to get his 3-year-old son in for an autism evaluation.  The music teacher ran out of providers …
Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:
Yadira Caraveo's former aides say they were mistreated, traumatized by Colorado congresswoman  —  Warning: This story contains details about apparent suicide attempts.  Here's how to get involved with suicide prevention, or find help.  —  U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo's behavior last year …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump, brushing aside separation of church and state, establishes religious liberty commission  —  “We're bringing religion back to our country, and it's a big deal,” the president said.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing a presidential commission …
 
 
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
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House Democrats fume at rogue Trump impeachment push
 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans
Reuters:
Democratic lawmakers call for review of Musk's role in Golden Dome missile defense shield
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NIH under siege
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
A small Montana town has thrived on federal jobs. Now come Trump's cuts.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he warned Americans during his campaign of a tariff ‘transition period’
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