美媒：英伟达苹果等头部企业CEO或随同特朗普访华

2026年5月8日 08:36 / 联合早报

美国媒体报道，美国政府正邀请英伟达、苹果、埃克森美孚、波音等大型企业首席执行官，随同总统特朗普下周访问中国。图为英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋5月4日在加州一场会议上发言。 （法新社）

美国媒体报道，美国政府正邀请英伟达、苹果、埃克森美孚、波音等大型企业首席执行官，随同总统特朗普下周访问中国。

路透社引述美国媒体Semafor报道，高通、黑石集团、花旗集团和威士（Visa）的高管也在受邀之列。

一名知情人士证实，花旗集团首席执行官弗雷泽（Jane Fraser）已收到邀请；高通证实收到邀请，但拒绝进一步置评。

路透社未能核实完整名单，但另一位消息人士透露，多名企业首席执行官已在星期三（5月6日）晚间接获邀请。

英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋受访时就此事说，“我们应该让总统自行宣布他决定宣布的事情”，并称“如果受邀，这将是一种荣幸，也是代表美国的极大荣誉”。

特朗普预计下星期四（5月14日）至星期五（15日）访华，与中国国家主席习近平会面。外界正密切关注此次中美元首会面期间，双方是否会达成一系列交易。

波音首席执行官奥特伯格（Kelly Ortberg）今年4月受访时表示，公司正寄望特朗普政府协助推动一笔期待已久的中国大额订单落地。

业内消息人士称，中国与波音已就相关交易磋商多时，内容可能包括500架737 MAX客机及数十架宽体客机。这将是中国自2017年以来首次向波音下达大型订单，若成行，预计将成为中美两国元首会晤的重要成果之一。

Accused correspondents’ dinner shooter seeks to disqualify Pirro and Blanche because they attended press gala

2026-05-07 22:52:34 EDT / CBS News

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Attorneys for accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen asked a judge Thursday night to disqualify U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro and other senior Justice Department leaders from the case because they were present during the incident.

In the motion, his lawyers led with a quote from FBI Director Kash Patel, who appeared at a press conference two days after the shooting to discuss the case alongside acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Pirro.

“This one hits a little differently. We were all there,” the motion quotes Patel as saying.

Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump, assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and two gun counts. He has not yet entered a plea.

Allen’s legal team argued Thursday that Pirro and Blanche should be disqualified due to their status as “purported victims and witnesses in this case.”

His lawyers noted that federal prosecutors have accused Allen of trying to kill “high-ranking government officials” — a term that could refer to Blanche and Pirro. They also pointed out that Pirro is a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, and said she has “referenced her status as a potential victim” in media appearances where she discussed her experience in the ballroom, including one CNN interview in which Pirro said she was “in that combat zone.”

The filing cited internal Justice Department rules that direct employees to recuse themselves from any criminal investigations where they may have a conflict of interest or a personal relationship with people involved in a case.

“As this case proceeds closer to trial, the country and the world will continue to wonder—how can the American justice system permit a victim to prosecute a criminal defendant in a case involving them?” they wrote. “Or even—how can one of the victim’s closest friends prosecute the alleged perpetrator of the offense?”

CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

Prosecutors have accused Allen, 31, of sprinting through a security checkpoint one floor above the correspondents’ dinner while armed with a handgun, a shotgun and several knives. Authorities say he fired his shotgun at an officer who was hit in his protective vest, and the officer fired back five times but didn’t hit him, before Allen was taken into custody.

Allen allegedly sent an email to family members on the night of the dinner claiming he planned to target Trump administration officials aside from Patel, “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.” A range of administration figures were present at the annual event, including Mr. Trump, much of his Cabinet and other high-level federal officials.

金正恩视察崔贤号驱逐舰 要求6月中旬移交海军服役

2026年5月8日 09:52 / 联合早报

金正恩（左四）5月7日乘坐崔贤号驱逐舰，参观了驱逐舰综合指挥所和武器系统控制舱等。他的女儿金珠爱（左二）也在舰上。 （法新社）

朝鲜领导人金正恩视察了崔贤号驱逐舰，并要求按计划于6月中旬移交海军服役。

新华社引述朝中社星期五（5月8日）报道，金正恩7日乘坐崔贤号驱逐舰，并参观驱逐舰综合指挥所和武器系统控制舱等多个战斗值勤空间和要素，了解舰艇作战准备情况。

金正恩对驱逐舰作战服役前各系统试验顺利进展予以高度评价。

金正恩还特别强调有关新建海军基地的重要任务。

金正恩（左四）5月7日乘坐崔贤号驱逐舰，参观了驱逐舰综合指挥所和武器系统控制舱等。他的女儿金珠爱（左二）也在舰上。 （法新社）

朝鲜领导人金正恩视察了崔贤号驱逐舰，并要求按计划于6月中旬移交海军服役。

新华社引述朝中社星期五（5月8日）报道，金正恩7日乘坐崔贤号驱逐舰，并参观驱逐舰综合指挥所和武器系统控制舱等多个战斗值勤空间和要素，了解舰艇作战准备情况。

金正恩对驱逐舰作战服役前各系统试验顺利进展予以高度评价。

金正恩还特别强调有关新建海军基地的重要任务。

AI emerges as a top cause of layoffs, accounting for 26% of April’s job cuts

May 7, 2026 4:30 PM EDT / CBS News

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Artificial intelligence is the leading reason companies cite for layoffs for the second straight month, accounting for more than one in four job cuts in April, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

The report found 21,490 AI-related cuts last month, or 26% of the 88,387 total, marking the second straight month the technology has been the top driver of layoffs.

While AI is often blamed for job losses and fewer entry-level opportunities, some skeptics question whether it is the sole cause. Some companies have also seen stock gains after pivoting to AI, such as sneaker maker Allbirds, whose shares surged about 600% after announcing plans to shift away from footwear and toward AI.

AI-related layoffs came as overall job cuts rose 38% in April from March, Challenger found. The largest share — 33,361 cuts — occurred in the technology sector.

Some tech firms say they’re shifting spending away from labor to direct more capital toward AI.

“Regardless of whether individual jobs are being replaced by AI, the money for those roles is,” Andy Challenger, workplace expert and chief revenue officer for Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in the statement.

Other reasons for job cuts

Other factors are driving layoffs, including President Trump’s evolving tariff agenda and the Iran war, Challenger said. Throughout 2026, “market and economic conditions” was the most cited reason, accounting for 53,058 cuts, the company found.

In April, company closures were the second most common reason for job cuts, followed by cost-cutting.

Other data suggests AI is affecting some white-collar jobs. In past automation cycles, blue-collar workers were more likely to bear the brunt.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics offers some evidence of AI-related job losses, according to Yardeni Research President Ed Yardeni. Layoffs in professional and business services — sectors vulnerable to AI — rose by 150,000 in March from a year earlier.

Still, Yardeni and other economists say AI could eventually create jobs by driving demand for new roles that did not exist just a few years ago.

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Can AI help you figure out how much money you need to retire?

2026-05-07T17:13:00-0400 / CBS News

People are using artificial intelligence today for a range of tasks, from preparing work presentations and shopping to conducting scientific research. But is AI also useful in tackling the most consequential and complicated calculation a worker is ever likely to face: Can they afford to retire?

Americans are already turning to AI for financial advice, with about 20% saying they use chatbots for this purpose, according to a September study by AI company Pearl. About half of those who already use AI at work also use it for retirement planning — double the rate among workers who don’t use AI, MissionSquare Research Institute found in a separate study.

The need for retirement advice is real: Americans now say they expect to work four years longer than they’d like due to rising living costs and inadequate savings. The median balance for workers with retirement plans is $40,000, far short of the$1.5 million they say they need to retire comfortably.

Meanwhile, Social Security — the financial backstop millions are counting on in retirement — could cut monthly benefits by as much as 20% in just six years, unless lawmakers take action to shore it up.

How AI can help with retirement planning

Given those facts, it’s tempting to turn to ChatGPT or Claude and ask, “Here’s what I have saved so far. Will I be able to retire at 65?”

Some experts say AI offers a good starting point for answering basic retirement questions.

“I’ll say, ‘Come up with some financial planning ideas or even run a Monte Carlo simulation to see how much I can spend every year,’ and it might not be perfect yet, but it’s starting to be able to get to a place where it’s producing some pretty valuable output that I think will be beneficial to people,” said Luke Delorme, director of financial planning and a Certified Financial Planner at Tableau Wealth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

A Monte Carlo simulation is a mathematical model that runs through thousands of potential outcomes for an individual retirement portfolio, factoring in best- and worst-case scenarios, such as the impact of a bear market. The model then projects the likelihood that a person’s retirement savings will last throughout their life.

Such simulations “are the perfect thing for a computer program to do. Eventually, I think that those tools will also become pretty powerful,” Delorme told CBS News.

Where AI struggles

Yet while generative AI may have value for basic financial planning, experts caution that so-called large language models aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to untangling the complex knot of retirement issues that will face a typical worker, ranging from tax impacts to longevity risk.

Noted Boston University economist and retirement expert Laurence Kotlikoff told CBS News that AI may do more harm than good in dispensing retirement advice. Such apps not only struggle to grasp the nuances of Social Security and other retirement issues, but are also based on what he views as flawed traditional financial planning advice, he said.

“It’s being trained on Wall Street’s guidance, and Wall Street’s guidance is all about maintaining and collecting and expanding its assets under management, so that has nothing to do with proper economic-based advice,” said Kotlikoff, who himself has developed a retirement planning tool called MaxiFi.

For instance, AI programs will estimate your retirement savings based on expected longevity, a typical framework for financial planners. Yet retirement planning should be based on a person’s maximum life expectancy to guard against outliving their money, Kotlikoff said.

He’s also found that AI often provides incorrect information in projecting Social Security scenarios, which can be highly complex given the federal program’s 22,000 pages of rules.

“Then you are off to the races of having the wrong analysis done for you,” Kotlikof said. AI “is like the hottest new thing — you can’t criticize it because otherwise you don’t sound cool or you are defending your job or company.”

But “I don’t give a s*** about feeling cool — I’m here to make people feel safe,” he added.

What AI told us

Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, told an MIT publication in April that AI struggles with tax optimization, doesn’t understand regulatory nuance and — unlike a human financial adviser — isn’t subject to legal requirements, such as acting in a client’s best interest.

Lo also stressed that it’s important to ask critical questions when using AI for retirement advice, such as prompting an AI to say where it might be wrong and to list its assumptions and uncertainties.

For instance, consider a hypothetical 50-year-old single woman with an annual income of $70,000. She has a median retirement savings of about $185,000 for someone her age, mostly invested in S&P 500 index funds. She’s contributing 12% of her income to retirement, and at her full retirement age of 67, will receive about $2,400 a month in Social Security benefits.

CBS News asked Anthropic’s Claude app, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity whether the woman can afford to retire comfortably at age 65 and what advice the chatbots would give her.

Claude and ChatGPT had similar responses: She can retire, but it’ll be tight — and under some circumstances she risks running out of money in retirement. Perplexity was more pessimistic, saying that she likely cannot retire comfortably at 65 without significantly cutting her spending or boosting her income.

Asked about their assumptions, the AI chatbots noted that they are basing their models on the woman living to age 90, versus a possible maximum lifespan of 100, and that they aren’t modeling exact tax implications. Notably, the apps also revealed that they aren’t assessing the potential cost of long-term care, which can be substantial.

The chatbots then walked back some of their original conclusions, with Claude specifically noting that its original planning horizon was too short. It changed its conclusion to “a tight but doable retirement” to “meaningfully underfunded without course correction.”

A bigger problem

When it comes to retirement planning, a bigger issue may be that many people fear investing. That can lead to mistakes, such as keeping savings in cash or CDs, which often have returns lower than inflation, Delorme noted. That means their savings will be eroded over time, heightening the risk of running out of money in retirement.

Delorme thinks AI could help the roughly two-thirds of Americans who don’t work with financial planners begin to understand these concepts. But he also expressed skepticism that AI alone can overcome the anxieties many people have about engaging with financial issues.

“It’s much more behavioral than it is a technical lack of knowledge,” Delorme said. “I don’t know if today that’s going to help people overcome their fears of things, like the fear of investing, which is such a huge obstacle.”

Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council proposes major redesign of federal disaster response role

May 7, 2026 4:41 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A council appointed by President Trump to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed a major overhaul to the agency that stops short of the administration’s vows to dismantle it, but could reduce the number of disasters the federal government supports and the amount of money it distributes.

The FEMA Review Council’s report says it is “time to close the chapter on FEMA,” arguing the FEMA brand is damaged and should be replaced by a “transformed agency” with a leaner, less Washington-centered structure.

The council, appointed by Mr. Trump, suggests ways the administration would be able to put far more responsibility on states, tribes and territories for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.

It proposes upending how the federal government determines which disasters to support, how FEMA pays states and other governments for disaster recovery costs and what kind of FEMA assistance survivors receive, among other reforms.

After Hurricane Katrina, Congress strengthened FEMA’s federal coordination role. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, reforms were made in an effort to speed up the recovery process and make assistance more flexible. During the coronavirus pandemic, FEMA’s mission expanded even further to include vaccination. This review argues that the accumulation of missions has pulled FEMA away from its core role and created bureaucracy, backlog and too much dependency on the federal government.

“These recommendations are all about accelerating federal dollars, streamlining the process, making it less bureaucratic so that Americans can get the help they need on the worst day of their lives,” former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a council member, said in a public meeting Thursday with nearly 6,000 virtual attendees.

The council submitted its report 15 months after Mr. Trump created the panel and nearly six months after its original November 2025 deadline.

There is broad agreement that FEMA needs reforms to move faster and relieve bureaucracy. But the council’s recommendations raise concerns among some disaster experts that shifting responsibilities will be more than some state and local governments, the private sector or survivors can handle.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the report offered him “a clear direction and an oversight of an agency that is in need of reform, but is still mission capable.”

The recommendations will now be sent to Mr. Trump, though many of the reforms would require congressional action. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether the president endorses the recommendations or what actions the administration might take next.

Among the council’s most significant recommendations involves changing how states, tribes, and territories qualify for federal support from a decision informed by a per-capita formula that weighs costs against population to a pre-defined set of metrics for a disaster to trigger federal support.

It also recommended giving states direct payments within 30 days of a disaster, with a potential for another payment further down the line, replacing the current system of reimbursing states after recovery work is done.

Survivors’ assistance would be upended, too: The council proposed limiting housing assistance to those whose homes are rendered uninhabitable and offering survivors a one-time payment instead of multiple avenues for rental, repair, and replacement assistance.

FEMA would focus its survivor aid on emergency housing, moving away from long-term housing assistance and giving states the option to run their own housing programs while adhering to federal standards.

“States, figure it out,” said council member and Florida emergency management director Kevin Guthrie. “Do what’s best for you.”

Other recommendations include shifting most flood insurance policies away from the National Flood Insurance Program, which is over $20 billion in debt, to the private market, and continuing to align premium costs more closely with risk.

Mr. Trump has threatened to dismantle FEMA and has repeatedly said he wants to push more responsibility for disaster preparedness, response and recovery to the states.

The 12-person council he appointed is co-chaired by Mullin and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It is made up of current and former officials and emergency managers from predominantly Republican-led states.

Emergency managers, local leaders, nonprofits involved with disaster management and survivor groups have anxiously awaited the council’s findings, which were due roughly six months ago but were delayed as former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and council members clashed over drafts.

The council says that in compiling its recommendations, it reviewed 11,708 public submissions, surveyed 1,387 state, local, tribal and territorial governmental and nongovernmental partners, engaged all 50 states and territories, held listening sessions in 13 cities, and held four tribal listening sessions.

The final recommendations seemed to move away from at least one of the most controversial reforms included in past drafts: Cutting the FEMA workforce by 50%, a recommendation included in a December draft reviewed by The Associated Press.

In a statement to The Associated Press, a spokesperson for The National Emergency Management Association said the group “broadly supports the overarching principles outlined by the council of less complexity in federal programs, faster assistance, and cost savings at all levels.”

Some disaster experts worry local governments and nonprofits won’t be able to fill in potential voids left by a federal pullback. Limiting survivor aid to those whose houses are uninhabitable, for example, “would dramatically increase the level of displacement and economic insecurity” for low-income survivors, said Noah Patton, director of disaster recovery at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition.

Asked about the council’s proposal, former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told CBS News, “Reports are often issued — what changes is the question.”

Most major changes would require legislative action. A FEMA reform act passed out of a House committee last year, but no further action has been taken.

Former FEMA chief of staff Michael Coen told CBS News, “The next step should be collaboration between the executive branch and Congress. The goals of these recommendations can’t fully be implemented without legislative statutory changes.” He added that “none of these recommendations will be easy to implement. FEMA has been changing and improving since 1979 and the work continues.”

Patton said he was skeptical that lawmakers could pass FEMA reform soon, especially with limited time before the midterm elections, and said the recommendations are not a foregone conclusion.

“It is important to remember that these are suggestions — they aren’t set in stone,” he said.

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State Department reviewing all Mexican consulates in U.S. as tensions grow

May 7, 2026 4:59 PM EDT / CBS News

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The State Department is initiating a review of all 53 Mexican consulates operating in the United States, a U.S. official told CBS News on Thursday, in a move that could lead Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider ordering the closure of some diplomatic offices.

The review comes as bilateral tensions build over security cooperation and cartel violence, and it follows the deaths of two American CIA officers after a counter-narcotics operation in northern Mexico last month.

A State Department official said the review is part of a broader effort to align U.S. foreign policy with the Trump administration’s priorities.

Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said the “Department of State is constantly reviewing all aspects of American foreign relations to ensure they are in line with the President’s America First foreign policy agenda and advance American interests.”

Mexico maintains the largest foreign consular network in the United States, with offices that provide documentation and legal aid to millions of Mexican citizens living across the country. Most are concentrated in border states and cities with large Mexican American populations, including California, Texas and Arizona.

In recent years, U.S. consulate closures have usually reflected rising tensions with rival countries rather than routine diplomatic changes. In 2020, as relations between Washington and Beijing worsened, the Trump administration ordered China’s consulate in Houston to close, citing concerns over espionage and intellectual property theft. In 2017, the U.S. ordered Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco, along with diplomatic facilities in Washington and New York, in response to Moscow expelling American diplomats.

Tensions between the U.S. and Mexico spiked last month following the deaths of two American officials — later confirmed by CBS News to have been working for the CIA — who died alongside two Mexican investigators after their vehicle crashed in a remote mountain region where authorities were targeting suspected drug laboratories.

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson announced the deaths of two embassy staff members in a post on X on April 19.

The operation quickly stoked political controversy, after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the American officers may not have had authorization from the federal government to operate in the country and publicly demanded explanations from the Trump administration.

The dispute has widened in recent days, as the U.S. announced drug trafficking and weapons charges against top Mexican political figures and issued multiple extradition requests, including one for Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya.

Sheinbaum said this week that Mexico’s Foreign Ministry sent a diplomatic note to Washington requesting evidence from the U.S. Justice Department regarding the allegations against Rocha and other senior officials, saying Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office would investigate if credible evidence was provided.

Rocha denied the accusations, calling them false, and said he would temporarily leave office to focus on his defense and cooperate with Mexican authorities as the case proceeds.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico later said combating corruption and transnational organized crime remains a shared priority for both governments. While declining to comment on the specific allegations, the embassy said corruption that enables organized crime “will be investigated and prosecuted wherever U.S. jurisdiction applies.”

The diplomatic strife comes amid an expanded CIA counternarcotics push under Director John Ratcliffe, who has sought to advance a key Trump administration priority by deepening intelligence-sharing and training with Mexican antidrug units and has included surveillance drone flights over Mexico targeting cartel operations.

The growing U.S. role has fueled debate in Mexico over its sovereignty and security cooperation with the Trump administration, especially as President Trump has repeatedly floated taking unilateral military action against cartels.

The CIA declined to comment.

CBS News has reached out to the Mexican embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment.

Margaret Brennan contributed to this report.

FIRST ON FOX: Top Republicans take abortion pill fight to Supreme Court, citing coercion and safety risks

May 7, 2026 5:43pm EDT / Fox News

Amicus brief alleges loosened FDA rules have led to cases of women being coerced into taking mifepristone

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FIRST ON FOX: More than 100 Republican lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to reinstate abortion pill restrictions, warning current policy allowing mifepristone to be mailed without in-person oversight has led to cases of women being coerced — and in some instances allegedly forced — to take the drug.

The amicus brief, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., backs Louisiana’s legal fight to restore an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug.

At the center of the filing are allegations that loosened federal rules have enabled coercion, with lawmakers arguing the Biden-era policy “increases the risk of coercion,” referring to changes to the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) that removed the in-person requirement.

The brief points to several alleged cases in which abortion pills were obtained online or administered without a woman’s consent, including plaintiff Rosalie Markezich, who says her boyfriend ordered mifepristone from a California doctor and coerced her into taking it.

ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE SPARKS NEW PRO-LIFE DEBATE AS SOME DOCTORS STRESS SAFETY CONCERNS

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaks during a Senate hearing while pointing to a chart showing fetal development stages on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Courtesy U.S. Senate Photographic services)

“Had she visited a doctor in person, her boyfriend would never have been able to obtain the drugs he made her take,” the brief says.

Lawmakers also cite additional reported incidents, including a case in which a Louisiana mother allegedly obtained abortion pills online for her teenage daughter, leading to a medical emergency, as well as another case involving a man accused of administering the drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge.

Lawmakers argue such cases are more likely under a system that allows abortion pills to be prescribed online and shipped without face-to-face medical screening.

‘ABORTION PILL’ FOUND TO HAVE ‘SEVERE ADVERSE EFFECTS’ FOR 1 IN 10 WOMEN, STUDY FINDS

Activists for and against abortion demonstrate outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2024, three years after the Dobbs decision. The demonstration coincides with a landmark Texas filing seeking to prevent interstate abortion pill mailing.(Allison Robbert/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

They say the policy not only weakens safeguards but puts women at risk while removing protections designed to prevent abuse.

Cassidy said those safeguards should be restored immediately.

“Chemical abortion drugs kill innocent children and put mothers’ lives at risk,” Cassidy said. “Safeguards protecting against coercion, such as the in-person dispensing requirement, must be reinstated immediately. The Fifth Circuit got this right, and I urge the Supreme Court to affirm that decision.”

ABORTION PILL FIGHT HEADS TO SUPREME COURT AS MANUFACTURER WARNS OF ‘CHAOS’ AFTER RULING

Anti-abortion activists hold signs outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.(Stefani Reynolds/AFP)

The filing comes after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Louisiana and reinstated the in-person dispensing requirement while litigation continues.

Lawmakers argue the FDA “overstepped its authority” by allowing abortion drugs to be distributed through the mail, saying the policy conflicts with the Comstock Act, which prohibits mailing items “designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.”

Smith also argued the drug poses serious risks, citing claims that more than one in 10 women experience complications such as infection or hemorrhaging.

They also contend the agency relied on insufficient safety data when it removed the in-person requirement, weakening adverse-event reporting standards and then using limited data to justify expanded access.

NEW YORK GOV. HOCHUL SIGNS LAW PROTECTING ABORTION PILL PRESCRIBERS AFTER DOCTOR INDICTED IN LOUISIANA

Louisiana lawmakers approved a bill on May 23, 2024, classifying two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances despite criticism from doctors about their other reproductive health uses.(Allen G. Breed/AP)

The brief further argues that eliminating in-person visits prevents doctors from screening for serious medical conditions, including ectopic pregnancies, and makes it more difficult to detect coercion or abuse.

The legal fight intensified over the weekend when mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro filed emergency appeals to the Supreme Court, warning the lower court ruling is already causing “immediate confusion and upheaval” across the country.

Danco argued the decision is disrupting access and forcing providers, pharmacies and patients to navigate rapidly changing rules, while GenBioPro said the order effectively eliminates mail-order access and upends a system relied on for years.

The companies are asking the justices to block the ruling while litigation continues, setting up a high-stakes legal battle that could reshape how the abortion drug is distributed nationwide.

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The Supreme Court is now weighing emergency requests from the manufacturers, which are seeking to pause the 5th Circuit’s order while the case proceeds.

The outcome could reshape access to abortion pills nationwide, determining whether they remain widely available by mail or are once again restricted to in-person medical oversight.

“There are legitimate concerns about these drugs putting women and girls at significant risk,” said Leader Thune. “I urge the Supreme Court to reinstate the safety guardrails that were in place before the Biden administration while the Department of Health and Human Services reviews these drugs.”

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U.S. strikes 2 Iranian ports as American warships come under fire

May 7, 2026 / 6:57 PM EDT / CBS News

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Washington — Three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz came under attack on Thursday, and the U.S. carried out strikes on two Iranian ports abutting the strait, putting into question an increasingly fragile monthlong ceasefire between the two countries.

The American destroyers USS Truxton, USS Mason and USS Rafael Peralta were attacked by Iranian missiles, drones and small boats, CBS News was first to report. The U.S. military’s Central Command confirmed the attacks in a statement and said the U.S. military responded with “self-defense strikes” on Iranian facilities, including drone and missile launch sites. The U.S. vessels were not struck, CENTCOM said.

The U.S. targeted the Iranian ports of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News.

President Trump told ABC News the ceasefire is still in effect despite the strikes on Iranian targets, which he described as “just a love tap.”

Fox News was first to report the strikes on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas.

American officials described the Iranian onslaught on three destroyers as fiercer and more sustained than a separate Iranian barrage that two of the warships faced only days earlier.

The vessels came under an intense Iranian assault as swarms of Iranian fast-attack boats maneuvered close enough that American warships opened fire to keep them at bay, U.S. officials told CBS News under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Over several hours, the American warships and supporting aircraft mounted a layered defense, firing their five-inch naval guns and their close-in weapon systems known as CIWS, officials said. Small-caliber gun teams on deck also engaged the attacking boats. American Apache helicopters fired Hellfire missiles, and .50-caliber machine guns were fired from the decks of the ships, as additional aircraft provided support overhead.

Iranian forces also launched drones and missiles during the confrontation, the officials said. As of publication, no casualties or damage to the ships was reported.

Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social that there was “great damage done to the Iranian attackers.”

“They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave!” he wrote, referring to the U.S.’s efforts to shoot down Iranian drones.

On Monday, CBS News first reported that two of the same vessels — the USS Truxtun and USS Mason — transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after navigating an Iranian barrage on Monday. During that engagement, Iran also launched small boats, missiles and drones against them in what officials described as a sustained barrage.

Despite the intensity of the attacks, neither U.S. vessel was struck earlier this week. CENTCOM said it destroyed six Iranian vessels on Monday, which Iran denied.

The incidents at sea mark some of the most direct known exchanges between the U.S. and Iran since the two countries entered into a ceasefire roughly one month ago, buying them time to negotiate a longer-term peace deal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters earlier this week the ceasefire is still in place, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S.’s initial operation against Iran — Operation Epic Fury — is over.

Despite the ceasefire, the U.S. and Iran have continued to vie for control over the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that normally carries one-fifth of the world’s oil.

Commercial shipping traffic ground to a virtual halt after the U.S. and Israel first launched strikes on Iran in late February, causing global oil prices to surge and trapping hundreds of tankers in the Persian Gulf. Most ships have continued to avoid the strait during the ceasefire, as Iran warns vessels not to sail through without permission.

Mr. Trump has pushed Iran to reopen the strait, and has enforced a blockade on Iranian ports in an effort to hobble the country’s economy and pressure it into a deal.

On Monday, Mr. Trump launched a project to guide commercial ships through the strait, allowing two American vessels to sail through the waterway. But a day later, Mr. Trump suspended that initiative, called Project Freedom. He said the project was on pause to see if negotiations between the U.S. and Iran can lead to a peace agreement.

The president hasn’t given a timeline for negotiations with Iran, and no in-person talks have been announced.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump warned that “we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!”