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Biden Administration: President Biden is in Hiroshima, Japan, attending this week's summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.

Ecuador: Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the national legislature ahead of an impeachment vote and amid growing unrest in the Andean nation that has fueled a surge of migration to the U.S. (▶️Video)

Russia-Ukraine War: Russia launched a salvo of missiles at Ukraine’s southern city of Odessa on Wednesday night, the latest in a string of missile assaults across the country this week.

While his aides negotiate with Republicans in Washington over raising the country’s roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit, Biden is trying to assuage allies in Japan that the U.S. will avoid a default, which could threaten to undermine the global economy, report Ken Thomas and Annie Linskey. Biden will seek to maintain unity among allies in supporting Ukraine and countering China’s economic clout at the summit.

• ▶️Video: How the U.S. Wants to Counter China in the Pacific (Watch)

• Debt-Ceiling Timing Has Silver Lining for Student Loans (Read)

DeSantis’s intentions have been clear for months, but the decision to file formal paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his candidacy puts him in direct competition with former President Donald Trump and a handful of other candidates, reports Alex Leary.

In other politics news...

• GOP Blocks Democrats’ Effort to Expel George Santos From Congress (Read)

• Eight-Year-Old Girl Dies in Border Patrol Custody (Read)

• Missouri Attorney General Withdraws Emergency Limits on Transgender Healthcare (Read)

The unemployment rate for Black workers fell to a record low 4.7% in April. That was still above the national average, but below 5% for the first time in Labor Department records of employment for Black Americans, which began in 1972, report Sarah Chaney Cambon and Gwynn Guilford. The confluence of strong demand for labor and demographic shifts in recent years, when many older, white workers retired, benefited Black Americans.

In other economic news...

• For-Profit Schools to Face Penalties for High Debt Loads, Low Incomes of Graduates (Read)

• First Republic Ex-CEO Says Bank Failed Because SVB, Signature Sparked Panic (Read)

Nearly seven months before federal authorities charged the airman with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information, members of Teixeira’s unit saw him take notes from classified information, access classified information not related to his job and repeatedly told him to stop, reports Nancy A. Youssef.

In other national security news...

• State Department Agrees to Share Secret Cable Urging Speedy Afghanistan Evacuation (Read)

• TikTok Ban Signed in Montana, Paving Way for First Amendment Legal Battle (Read)

Kyiv aims to destroy ammunition, fuel and other supplies as it seeks to starve Russian forces in the field, reports Isabel Coles. Ukrainian leaders say they are waiting for more Western weapons to arrive before launching what has been billed as a “spring offensive” that is now likely to play out over the summer.

• Russia Says U.S. Has Called to Demand Release of Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan (Read)

In other world news...

• Four People Killed in Attack on U.S. Convoy in Nigeria (Read)

• Global Warming Likely to Pass 1.5-Degree Threshold in Next Five Years, U.N. Report Says (Read)

Testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf, said the federal judiciary’s governing body, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, blocked internal debate about the ethics complaints against Justice Thomas and wasn’t transparent about the allegations with either the public or other judges who serve on the panel, reports Jess Bravin.

• Supreme Court to Rule on Affirmative Action, Student Debt and Internet Companies’ Liability (Read)

In other legal news...

• U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins to Resign in Wake of Damning Ethics Reports (Read)

• Appeals Court Questions FDA’s Judgment on Abortion Pill (Read)

• Penguin Random House Sues Florida School District Over Book Bans (Read)

• Recession calls keep getting pushed back, giving hope to believers in a soft landing for the economy.  (Bloomberg)
• The National Archives informed former President Donald Trump that it will give special counsel Jack Smith records showing Trump and his advisers knew the declassification process, undercutting Trump's claim that documents he took were automatically declassified. (CNN)
• Papua New Guineans reacted with disappointment to the news that President Biden canceled his visit there to focus on U.S. debt limit talks. (The Guardian)

Yesterday, we asked if a federal appeals court should side with plaintiffs who oppose the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a widely used abortion pill.

It is federal law that mailing chemicals that cause abortion is illegal.  That is enough to support an injunction on mailing abortion pills from one state to another.
–Charles Baer, New Hampshire

Courts shouldn't be involved with the approval process for any drugs. If the process appears inadequate, then it's Congress's responsibility to correct any issues. What happens if a court rules in favor of blocking this drug and another pandemic hits and the drug receives emergency authorization? This opens that FDA action to oversight by liberal or conservative courts.
–Ron Petterson, North Carolina

Courts don't have the foundational knowledge, practical skills or authority to make judgments in this area. Congress has granted that authority to the FDA. This is another symptom of a dysfunctional legislative branch of government. Since Congress has such a difficult time doing anything productive, especially if it requires bipartisan collaboration, many groups are trying to use the courts to circumvent that process.
–Wilson Zehr, Oregon

Responses have been condensed and edited.

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