A Michigan court Tuesday struck down three safety laws that allegedly violated the state’s constitutional right to abortion. The case was brought against the state of Michigan by an abortion clinic challenging three laws that mandated a 24-hour waiting period before performing an abortion, required clinics to provide counseling materials that the abortion providers claimed were “biased” and allowed only qualified medical staff to perform the procedures. Michigan residents voted to enshrine a right to abortion into the state constitution in 2022, an amendment that left no room for restrictions of any kind to be placed on the act.

With April’s inflation report coming in below forecasts, the Trump economy appears to be defying analysts' and politicians' predictions of collapse in the wake of his “Liberation Day” tariffs and subsequent trade negotiations. As Trump adds more notches to his belt in deals with key trade partners, the stock market has rebounded to pre-tariff levels, even while many tariffs remain largely in place on major economies such as China and the UK. In April of this year, former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the developments of Trump's tariffs point to “a loss of confidence in U.S. economic policy” and called the tariffs “the worst self-inflicted policy wound I’ve ever seen in my career inflicted on our economy [...] they are “doing immense damage.” 

Since President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and women who want to serve at the U.S. borders. From January to April 2025, USBP received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says.

Waymo, the self-driving taxi service owned by Google’s parent company, is recalling 1,212 vehicles operating in San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin after they repeatedly collided with gates, chains and other roadside barriers.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to pause putting limits on some so-called forever chemicals in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and babies being born with low birth weight.