Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The administration’s latest legal setback: “A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore webpages from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration that were suddenly taken down to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order decrying ‘gender ideology.’”
* Speaking of the CDC: “A strain of bird flu spreading among dairy cows in Nevada has infected a dairy worker in the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. The patient, who’d been working with sick cows, was found to have a strain of bird flu called D1.1, which has long been circulating in wild birds. It’s different from the strain of the virus that’s caused the majority of human infections in the U.S., called B3.13. D1.1 has a mutation that could make the virus spread more easily in mammals.”
* Headed home: “An American school teacher held by Russia for three and a half years over a minor medical cannabis infraction will be released and allowed to come home, the White House said Tuesday. Marc Fogel, a 63-year-old Pennsylvania native, had been sentenced to 14 years in prison by Russia and was considered ‘wrongfully detained’ by the United States.”
* Keep an eye on this one: “A federal judge ordered the F.B.I. on Monday to disclose some of the records it has continued to keep secret in its case file on the now-defunct investigation into President Trump’s mishandling of classified materials. That includes any that might touch on the question of whether Mr. Trump destroyed certain documents by flushing them down the toilet during his first term in the White House.”
* And speaking of the bureau: “The Trump administration has asked the FBI for a list of probationary employees and individual justifications for keeping anyone who has been at the bureau for less than two years, sparking a new round of fears within a bureau that has been rocked by the first three weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency.” * The latest on Florida’s intraparty mess: “After two weeks of bickering over who had the tougher immigration enforcement plan, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida legislative leaders have made up and agreed on measures to help President Trump crack down on illegal immigration. One of the biggest concessions of the new plan requires DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson to share immigration enforcement authority with the two other members of the Cabinet.” * Conspiracy theorists should keep their expectations low: “The FBI on Tuesday said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order last month to release thousands of files. The FBI said it’s working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to be included in the declassification process.” See you tomorrow.
Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."
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