If Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was trying to inspire Food and Drug Administration staff with a Friday address at agency headquarters, the reception he got showed he has a bumpy road ahead.
The big picture: Kennedy used an appearance at the agency's Silver Spring, Maryland, center to urge employees not to be part of the "deep state" — which he asserted exists — and said the FDA had become a "sock puppet" of industries it regulates.
Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who are in the U.S. illegally stand to lose legal help for their immigration hearings — and face being deported — because of a little-known Trump budget cut.
Why it matters: The $367 million cut takes aim at the legal defense fund designed to help children and teens who've fled violence, lost their parents, or are victims of trafficking.
President Trump will undergo his annual physical on Friday in what could provide a new snapshot of his health — if he releases the results.
Why it matters: The findings from Friday's exam can only be shared publicly with Trump's consent, per KFF Health News. The exam could renew calls that Trump faced during his first term and on the campaign trail to release medical records demonstrating his physical and cognitive wellbeing.
Egg prices rose to a record high of $6.23 per dozen in March, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Thursday that pre-dates a recent decline in retail prices.
The big picture: President Trump claimed credit last month for a drop in wholesale egg prices, as bird flu outbreaks that had forced producers to cull millions of chickens and sparked shortages began to wane — and his administration moved to tackle high prices by boosting egg imports.
Siemens executive Agustín Escobar and his family were among six people to die when a helicopter crashed in the Hudson River, between New York and New Jersey, on Thursday, the company confirmed in an email.
The latest: The Spanish executive, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, and his children — ages 4, 5 and 11 — were aboard the helicopter when it crashed. The pilot, who also died in the crash, was not immediately identified.
