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Arya Sundaram / Gothamist:
Homeland Security cops handcuff one of Rep. Nadler's aides in chaotic day at NY fed building … We rely on your support to make local news available to all  —  Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2025.  Donate today  —  Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine  —  The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to H.I.V. research and programs to prevent the disease.  —  The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating …
Discussion: CBS News, The Atlantic and Reuters
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Jon Cohen / Science:
‘Devastating.’ NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia  —  Researchers decry agency's decision just as new leads reinvigorate search for long-sought vaccine  —  Skip backwardsGo ten seconds backward Skip forwardsGo ten seconds forward  —  Audio is AI-generated.  Report an issue|
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Trump and Musk's Complicated Relationship  —  The president and his aides have sometimes expressed frustration with Musk, but his advisers say the two remain close  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump recently posed an evocative question to his advisers about billionaire Elon Musk's promise …
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Will Potter / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Insane moment Elon Musk ‘SHOVED’ Trump's treasury secretary Scott Bessent during screaming match
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Gizmodo
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Championed Rulings That Are Now Being Used to Check His Power  —  In tariff case and others, courts are finding the president's expansive view of executive authority clashes with decisions that limit its reach  —  WASHINGTON—During the Biden administration, conservative challengers …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
From Stanford Prof. Michael McConnell on the Tariff Decicions
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Angry New Tirade Over Tariff Ruling Accidentally Says Too Much
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule.  C.D.C.'s update counters his policy.  —  Days after Health Secretary …
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Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
Discussion: Axios, NewsMax.com and Blaze Media
James Glanz / New York Times:
World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts  —  With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.  —  For decades, Bangalore, India, has been an incubator …
Mark Mazower / Financial Times:
For Europe, America was the future.  Now what?  —  Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship  —  Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free  —  Your guide to what Trump's second term means for Washington, business and the world
Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Trump's mass firings at several agencies will remain on hold, appeals court rules  —  President Donald Trump's directives for mass firings at multiple agencies will remain on hold, a federal appeals court ruled Friday evening.  —  The Trump administration had asked the US 9th Circuit Court …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A court halted his deportation.  The Trump administration deported him 28 minutes later.  —  Officials blamed “administrative errors.”  It's the fourth known case of an improper deportation by the Trump administration.  —  The Trump administration has admitted that it improperly deported another immigrant …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
PBS sues Trump over executive order targeting federal funding, following NPR  —  The public broadcaster says a May 1 executive order violated its First Amendment rights.  —  PBS sued the Trump administration on Friday, nearly one month after the president issued an executive order targeting its federal funding.
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NBC News:
PBS sues Trump administration over executive order that cut its funding
Karen Garcia / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Newsom proposes ‘asset test’ for low-income and disabled Medi-Cal applicants.  What does that mean?  — Facing higher healthcare costs, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing adding an “asset test” for applicants for Medi-Cal and In-Home Supportive Services.
NBC News:
Gabbard considering ways to revamp Trump's intelligence briefing  —  One idea is to make the briefing, which according to his schedule Trump has been taking less often than his predecessors, a video that looks like Fox News.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's intelligence chief …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US judge prevents Trump from invalidating 5,000 Venezuelans' legal documents  —  A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections …
Brad Plumer / New York Times:
Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions  —  The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet.  —  The Energy Department announced on Friday that it was terminating $3.7 billion …
Discussion: TechCrunch, The Hill, Bloomberg and Axios
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Washington Post:
Trump fires director of the National Portrait Gallery  —  It was unclear if Trump can dismiss Smithsonian leaders.  The termination of Kim Sajet marks the president's first action against an institution he has vowed to purge of “anti-American ideology.”
Washington Post:
Wall Street warns Trump aides the GOP tax bill could jolt bond markets  —  White House officials maintain bankers' concerns are overstated and discount expected revenues from the president's tariffs.  —  Wall Street bankers and executives are privately warning the Trump administration …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Defending Medicaid Cuts, Ernst Tells Iowans, ‘We All Are Going to Die’  —  Senator Joni Ernst's flip response in an exchange with constituents about the effects of Trump's domestic policy bill spread quickly online.  —  Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, had a gloomy message for constituents …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst defends proposed Medicaid cuts: ‘We all are going to die’
STAT:
STAT+: New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request  —  The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday released a summary of President Trump's budget request for the 2026 fiscal year that provides the most detailed look yet at how his administration hopes …
Discussion: CNN
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Loretta Swit a.k.a. Hot Lips of TV's ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies at 87  —  She won two Emmy Awards for her sympathetic portrayal of an Army major on the hit TV show and had a long career in TV and theater.  —  Loretta Swit, the Emmy-winning actress who made the high-strung and relentlessly militaristic …
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches  —  The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace says Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C. headquarters in disarray, full of water damage …
Discussion: Court Watch and The Independent
Associated Press:
Trump picks right-wing lawyer and podcaster who promoted 2020 election lies as watchdog agency head  —  President Donald Trump's pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as a “extraordinary human being” …
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Wes Moore dives into 2028 race in South Carolina  —  The governor of Maryland said Democrats must adapt and change.  —  COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Wes Moore made an early and urgent appeal Friday to one of the nation's most important Democratic constituencies.
Max Tani / Semafor:
California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump  —  The Scoop  —  The California State Senate has invited two former top CBS figures to testify in a new inquiry into whether the network's parent company has violated state laws against bribery and unfair competition.
Robin Bravender / Politico:
Trump administration to prioritize ‘patriotic Americans’ for federal jobs  —  Applicants for government jobs will be required to write essays explaining how they will advance President Donald Trump's policy priorities.  —  As President Donald Trump moves to slash the size of the federal workforce …
Politico:
White House convenes meeting to brainstorm new Harvard measures  —  The push comes as the White House regroups after a federal judge blocked its move to bar Harvard from enrolling international students.  —  The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against Harvard University …
Anil Oza / STAT:
25 million cavities and $9.8 billion: Study estimates the costs of removing fluoride from water  —  Researchers model what would happen if all states ban fluoridation  —  Even before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took office as health secretary, he promised to take action on water fluoridation.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Goodbye to Racial Quotas in Federal Contracts
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Remembers When TV Had a Conscience, and a Spine
CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to suspend deportation protections for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Trump's sweeping tax-cut bill includes provision to weaken court powers
Discussion: USA Today
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.'s Right-Hand Man
Discussion: The Dispatch
ProPublica:
Connecticut Legislature Passes Bill Overhauling Century-Old Towing Laws
Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast:
Vance's Trump Force Two Campaign Plane Now Being Used for Deportation Flights
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Golden Dome missile defense program won't be done by end of Trump's term
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Bob Hoge / RedState:
Jasmine Crockett Tries to Explain Democrat Playbook, Spews Out Kamala-Worthy Gibberish Instead
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Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
Musk dodges questions about drug use after New York Times report
David Gardner / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He Will Consider Pardoning Diddy
 

 
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