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The Dept of Agriculture is planning to terminate several McGovern-Dole program grants, two people familiar told me and Marcia Brown. For decades, the program has provided food assistance to some of the poorest countries in the world. politico.com/newsletters/we…

SCOOP: Politico's unionized newsroom will show down with bosses in a first-of-its-kind battle over AI wired.com/story/politico…

BREAKING: Judge orders Trump administration to seek to bring back a third deportee: a Guatemalan man sent back to Mexico, where he claimed he'd been raped and kidnapped. Also Rubio says fed judge's orders are undermining diplomacy in Africa. w/Kyle Cheney politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

A cast bronze memorial to the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 declares that "their heroism will never be forgotten." But the memorial itself has been forgotten, left in storage because Johnson's office has not had it hung. Joe Heim washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05…

World Food Programme Director calls food situation in Gaza 'a catastrophe' ow.ly/T9JI1069ZkZ

Texas’ SB 2880, a wide-ranging bill that would have allowed anyone who manufactures, distributes, prescribes or provides abortion pills to be sued for $100k, is *likely* dead. It was not put on the House calendar for Tuesday, the deadline for bills to reach the floor.

Memorial Day marks the start of the swimming season. But this year, layoffs at HHS mean the federal team that works on water safety and drowning data analysis is gone. Story: politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

The Detroit News will be helming the "new media" seat at The White House on Wednesday. The newspaper was started in 1873.

NEW: Judge Murphy, targeted for attacks by Trump and Stephen Miller, accuses the administration of misrepresenting his rulings and causing the chaos it now complains about with its summary deportations to South Sudan. w/ Josh Gerstein politico.com/news/2025/05/2…

Seven of the cited sources in the MAHA report don’t appear to exist at all. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS via email. New on NOTUS from Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto notus.org/health-science…

NEW: It happened again. Donald Trump dusted off a decades-old statute and attempted to redefine it to expand presidential power — only to slam into a rejection from the courts who say the law was never meant to be used that way. politico.com/news/2025/05/3…

>>> Hundreds of thousands of health care workers, including an estimated 30,000 legal immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, are at risk of being deported — worrying providers and patients who rely on them

JUST IN: A Trump-appointed judge in California blocks the administration from deporting a Venezuelan national under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the administration hasn't provided adequate notice/due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

JUST IN: The Trump administration says Secretary RUBIO is "personally handling" discussions with El Salvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants. He has a "personal relationship" with Bukele that dates to his time on Foregn Relations Committee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NEW -- Pete Hegseth promised Joni Ernst he'd appoint a sexual assault czar. It was critical to win over her vote. We reviewed 400 public releases from DOD and asked them and Ernst for comment. So far, there's no evidence any appointment has been made. thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegseth…