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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist  —  The Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don't exist, according to the listed authors.  — Copy  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The Trump administration's ‘MAHA Report’ cites nonexistent scientific studies  —  There's new evidence that the White House's “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” relied in part on scientific research that doesn't exist.  —  After Donald Trump and his White House team unveiled …
Discussion: NOTUS
CNBC:
Four tools at the Trump administration's disposal after a U.S. court blocks tariffs … U.S. President Donald Trump could still find a workaround after suffering a major blow to a core part of his economic agenda.  —  The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday ruled that the president …
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Second federal court rules against Trump's tariffs  —  The decision comes less than 24 hours after another court ruled against the president's use of an emergency law to justify tariffs on dozens of the United States' largest trading partners.  —  A second federal court has ruled …
Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post and Townhall
CNBC:
Trump could ask Supreme Court to halt tariff block as soon as Friday
Reuters:
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
Associated Press:
Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:   The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Politico:
White House insists court ruling won't derail Trump's tariff agenda
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company's shot.  —  The Trump administration has delivered its latest blow to vaccines …
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CNN:
China thought it had a truce with the US.  Then Trump dropped two bombshells  —  A one-two punch from the United States risks shattering the already fragile trade war truce between Washington and Beijing, with Chinese tech companies and students both dealt shock blows by the Trump administration Wednesday night.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students, Rubio Says
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John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court limits environmental review of major infrastructure projects  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that could speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build
Discussion: ABC News
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion  —  Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion …
Discussion: Reason
Jonathan Cowan / Politico:
The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats.  Here's How to Neutralize It.  —  It's time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled.  —  It will go down as one of the most infamous taglines in modern campaign history: “Kamala is for they/them — President Trump is for you.”
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Gallego says concerns about trans athletes are ‘legitimate’
Discussion: Fox News
Wall Street Journal:
The Punch That Launched Trump's War on American Universities  —  Threats to withhold billions in federal research funds to punish campuses grew heated after a 2019 altercation left a man with a black eye
New York Times:
A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He's Exiting Washington  —  The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.  —  Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting at the White House last month.Eric Lee/The New York Times
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Statement on Chair Powell's meeting with the President  —  For immediate release  —  At the President's invitation, Chair Powell met with the President today at the White House to discuss economic developments including for growth, employment, and inflation.
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it  —  Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat.  Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests.  —  Earlier this month, Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump finds more convicted congressional Republicans to reward with pardons  —  Thanks to the president's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.  —  It's been a challenge keeping up with the flurry …
Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:
The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls  —  There were many terrible moments in Donald Trump's nakedly fascist 2024 campaign, but I will personally never forget taking the time, in May, to read Radley Balko's extensive discussion of how mass deportation might work in practice.
Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:
Sen. Lindsey Graham gets a 2026 challenge from Democrat Annie Andrews, who ran against Nancy Mace  —  Dr. Annie Andrews, the South Carolina Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022, says she's running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026 …
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Rep. Steny Hoyer draws a challenger who makes the age argument explicit  —  A 35-year-old volunteer firefighter said longtime incumbent is “still operating in this 1980s information environment.”  —  Rep. Steny Hoyer has drawn a primary challenger with a pointed message about the 85-year-old …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Far-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation  —  Floyd Brown, a far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama …
Discussion: The Hill, NewsMax.com and Raw Story
Michael Mann / The Guardian:
Trump's new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it  —  The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science  —  Science is under siege.  —  On Friday evening, the White House released …
Discussion: New Republic and CleanTechnica
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the “Trump Train”  —  A House Republican introduced legislation to block federal funding for the Washington, D.C. Metrorail system unless it is renamed the “Trump Train”.  —  Why it matters: The bill is likely a long-shot, but it is the latest …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Brian Karem / Salon:
Trump 2.0 falls apart before our eyes  —  On Wednesday, Donald Trump went nuts when a reporter asked him about a Wall Street acronym mentioning him and his tariff policy: “TACO” or “Trump always chickens out.”  —  The president had threatened to raise tariffs on European goods last Friday, but later backed off.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
The US Is Storing Migrant Children's DNA in a Criminal Database  —  Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Agrees to Facilitate Return of Guatemalan Man to U.S.  —  A federal judge in Massachusetts had ordered officials to “facilitate” his return.  The United States is still holding a group of other deportees at a base in Djibouti.  —  Justice Department lawyers said on Wednesday …
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump issues series of pardons for politicians, a union leader and a rapper  —  President Donald Trump issued a series of pardons on Wednesday, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut governor, a rapper known as “NBA YoungBoy,” a labor union leader and a onetime Army officer …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How the iPhone Drove Men and Women Apart  —  And what it means for the future.  —  What would make you want to have more children?  This week on “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat speaks with Dr. Alice Evans, a social scientist who is as concerned about the global decline in fertility as Ross is.
Louise Aronson / The Atlantic:
The Conversations Trump's Doctors Should Be Having With Him  —  An elderly president's physicians should press him to think through hard questions about his health.  —  In contrast to his aging predecessor, President Trump appears robust and energetic.  Yet, like Joe Biden …
Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us  —  The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.  —  On January 28, Dr. Troy Jacobs was in Ethiopia getting ready to board a plane from Addis Ababa to Washington, DC, when his phone and computer suddenly stopped working.
 
 
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Andrew Tangel / Wall Street Journal:
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