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Rachel Roubein / Washington Post: In a first, FDA authorizes fruit-flavored vapes for adults — The move marks a shift after the FDA for years worked aggressively to regulate flavored vapes. -
New! Paul Krugman: MAGA Will Kill Many Americans — Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration broke with previous policy and approved the sale of blueberry and mango-flavored vapes … -
Padmanabhan Ananthan / Reuters: US FDA blocked publication of COVID, shingles vaccine safety studies — Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration blocked the publication … -
Reuters: Iran says it wants a ‘comprehensive agreement’ with US — The United States and Iran are closing in on an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the war in the Gulf … -
Steven Erlanger / New York Times: Trump Looks for a Silver Bullet to End the Iran War. There May Be None. — The president is trying to ratchet up the economic pressure on Tehran … -
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg: Trump Pauses Plan to Guide Ships While Seeking Iran Deal — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 15.58% Playback Rate — captions off, selected -
Jane C. Timm / NBC News: 7 Indiana legislators face Trump-backed primary challengers after bucking him on redistricting — A majority of the seven state senators on the ballot Tuesday … -
Adam Wren / Politico: With Indiana, Trump asserts his grip on the GOP … President Donald Trump flexed his grip on the GOP base in Indiana on Tuesday, vanquishing a majority … -
Aaron Pellish / Politico: ‘The Kamala Harris problem’: Vance's 2028 hopes hinge on Trump, Iowa Republicans say … During Vance's first trip as vice president to the early caucus state … -
Hans Nichols / Axios: Senate Dems eager to force Republicans to vote on Trump's ballroom — Senate Democrats are salivating at the chance to force every Republican to vote on $1 billion … -
Steve Benen / MS NOW: Republicans want to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump's $400 million ballroom — The controversial vanity project was already unpopular. -
Janaki Chadha / Politico: Real estate titan compares ‘tax the rich’ slogan to racial slurs … Roth decried Mamdani's recent social media video on a proposed pied-à-terre tax … -
Graham Kates / CBS News: Howard Lutnick set to testify in House Oversight Committee's Epstein probe today — Add CBS News on Google — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is scheduled … -
Erik Ortiz / NBC News: Howard Lutnick faces congressional showdown after Epstein files revealed island visit — The commerce secretary said he stopped talking to Jeffrey Epstein in 2005. -
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: Trump lashes out at Pope Leo again ahead of Rubio trip to Rome — The criticism of the pontiff's stance on Iran highlighted what Vatican officials have described … -
Associated Press: Trump again assails Pope Leo, potentially complicating Rubio's visit to the Vatican this week — President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Pope Leo XIV … -
Washington Post: Poll finds broad rejection of religion-related messages from Trump, Hegseth — Americans rate Pope Leo positively but are deeply critical of the president's social media post … -
Politico: Another House Republican is under the microscope for alleged sexual misconduct … “We have said it from the beginning, if you are abusing your power in Congress … -
New! Washington Post: Iran has hit far more U.S. military assets than reported, satellite images show … Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces … -
Democracy Docket: Exclusive: Bert Callais, lead plaintiff in case that gutted Voting Rights Act, is an election conspiracist who was at Jan. 6 protest -
Greg Sargent / New Republic: Trump's Case Against Comey Is Imploding—and Handing Dems a New Weapon — Here's a simple thought experiment for you. The Justice Department, as you know … -
Matthew Brown / Associated Press: Trump administration sues Denver over its 1989 assault weapons ban — The Trump administration sued Denver and its police department on Tuesday seeking to strike … -
Ed Demaria / NOTUS: NRCC Chair ‘Not Worried’ About Democrats Running on High Prices — “We're still on a rescue mission,” Hudson said. “Remember how bad it was before? -
afsa.org: AFSA Statement on State Department Reductions in Force — Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, the State Department separated more than 200 Foreign Service members under … -
Wall Street Journal: Justice Alito's Intriguing Footnote — He hints at a delay in releasing the Louisiana v. Callais decision. — Click for Sound -
New York Times: N.Y.P.D. Captain Is Transferred After Calling Mamdani ‘Total Nonsense’ — The captain, James G. Wilson, was also filmed calling Democrats a “waste of human race.” -
Punchbowl News: 5/6/26☀️ AM: … But progressives are lining up behind Hakeem Jeffries as the next speaker if House Democrats win the majority in November … -
New! Danny Hakim / New York Times: A Look Inside the Case That Enshrined Political Power for Billionaires … For a brief moment in American history, the rich didn't control politics. -
U.S. Department of Education: U.S. Department of Education Opens Title IX Investigation into Los Angeles Unified School District — The Los Angeles Unified School District (the District) … -
Yaroslav Trofimov / Wall Street Journal: Gulf States Fear an Emboldened Iran Is Taking Advantage of a Hesitant U.S. — Governments friendly with America worry about Tehran's strikes on U.A.E. -
Bill Mahoney / Politico: New York Democrats amplify their push for 2028 redistricting … The focus on that amendment has heightened as that initial vote looms — and particularly in the wake … -
Andrew Prokop / Vox: A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off — Democrats could be one midterm wave away from instituting a national popular vote.