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Fast-food giants are banding together. McDonald's will start selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts across the US later this year.

• 🍩 Krispy Kreme’s Original Glazed, Chocolate Iced with Sprinkles, and Chocolate Iced Kreme Filled doughnuts will be delivered to McDonald’s restaurants daily. You can buy them individually or in boxes of six.

• Not to be outdone, Wendy’s is rolling out a breakfast deal with Cinnabon.

Might not be the breakfast of champions, but… yum!

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📌 BEHIND BALTIMORE’S CATASTROPHIC BRIDGE COLLAPSE

A container ship hit a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to collapse in a matter of seconds. Watch HERE.

Maryland’s governor said many lives were saved because a mayday call from the ship gave officials time to stop vehicular traffic on the bridge. However, some construction workers who were working on the roadway did not get warned in time. First responders were able to rescue two workers, but six others are presumed dead.

President Biden said the federal government would “pay the entire cost of reconstructing” the collapsed bridge, which more than 11 million cars use annually.

TIMELINE
Video shows the collapse of the 1.6-mile-long, four-lane Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by a Singapore-flagged cargo vessel around 1:30 am ET. Moments before the crash, the ship lost power. Danish shipping giant Maersk chartered the vessel.

• Officials say there are “no indications” the crash was intentional.

• The ship’s crew notified authorities that there was a power issue, sending a mayday call, and authorities stopped car traffic reportedly within two minutes.

• One officer who stopped traffic radioed that he was going to drive onto the bridge to alert the construction crew. But seconds later, another officer said: “The whole bridge just fell down. Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed.”

LIVES LOST
Two workers were rescued. One is in stable condition and the other is in critical condition, as of late Tuesday. First responders searched all day for the six missing construction workers, who were fixing potholes at the time of the crash.

• The Coast Guard said Tuesday evening that the six crew members were presumed dead, given the water temperature was around 48 degrees Fahrenheit and the depth where the bridge collapsed was about 50 feet.

• Underwater drones, sonar, and infrared surveillance tools are being used in the recovery effort.

• The entire East Coast relies on this bridge. For the upcoming months, if not years, ship traffic at the Port of Baltimore and cargo and commuter traffic will likely be heavily impacted.

⚖️ JUSTICES APPEAR SKEPTICAL OF RESTRICTING ABORTION PILL

The Supreme Court heard their first major abortion case Tuesday, since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. Based on yesterday’s arguments, it appears justices are ready to side with the FDA and the expanded availability of the abortion pill, mifepristone.

Justices focused on whether the anti-abortion rights doctors, who brought the case, have the legal right to challenge the FDA’s approval of the medication.

HOW WE GOT HERE
Though it’s been approved for two decades, the FDA expanded mifepristone’s availability in 2016 and 2021. The drug is available by mail, can be taken through the 10th week of pregnancy (instead of 7th), and can be prescribed over telehealth by medical practitioners.

• Some doctors who don’t support abortion aren’t ok with that, and conservative justices in lower courts said the FDA cut corners in relaxing the mifepristone dispensing rules.

• Rolling back the FDA’s actions would “inflict grave harm on women across the nation,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued on behalf of the US government.

INSIDE THE COURT
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which brought the case, has to prove that doctors will actually be harmed by the pill remaining widely available. And most of the justices, conservative and liberal, questioned whether those docs have sufficient legal grounds — or standing — to bring the lawsuit.

• Several justices questioned whether the doctors involved in the lawsuit could show an actual injury from the federal government’s approval and regulation of mifepristone.

  • Describing it as “a handful of individuals,” conservative justice Neil Gorsuch, said the case is "a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide legislative assembly on an FDA rule or any other federal government action."

• Conscience objection: One of the doctors in the case assisted in a life-threatening situation in which a woman suffered complications after taking mifepristone, but did NOT raise a conscience objection at that time.

  • Justice Elena Kagan said: “Usually ... the way people with conscience objections do this is they make those objections known.”

  • While 5 million women have used mifepristone since 2000, none of them were part of this case.

• Comstock Act: Conservatives Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas both asked whether mifepristone being delivered by mail violates the Comstock Act, a 19th-century federal law that outlawed mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious” materials.

• US Solicitor General Prelogar said it wasn’t the FDA’s job to enforce that statute. But the conservative justices’ questioning signals this could be a larger issue in the future.

MORE TO COME: Another case regarding abortion is set to be argued on April 24th. It’s regarding the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires federally funded hospitals to provide patients in emergency situations with care. At issue: whether abortions are included in that care.

📺 NBC FIRES EX-RNC CHAIR AFTER INTERNAL BACKLASH

NBC News fired former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel just four days after announcing her hire as a paid political analyst. It comes after major backlash from within the network, as hosts criticized the decision on-air. MSNBC anchors celebrated the ousting Tuesday night (Video).

Now, McDaniel is said to be lawyering-up.

IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU
Some of the MSNBC’s most prominent personalities, from Rachel Maddow to Chuck Todd to Joe Scarborough, criticized the move.

• The issue: How McDaniel aided former President Donald Trump when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. She was the RNC Chair at the time and advised Trump.

• Host Nicolle Wallace told viewers that NBC News, “wittingly or unwittingly,” had told “election deniers” that they could spread falsehoods “as one of us, as badge-carrying employees of NBC News, as paid contributors to our sacred airwaves.”

• Through McDaniel’s RNC tenure, journalists were "met with gaslighting" and "character assassination," according to Todd.

NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said he had listened to “the legitimate concerns” of many network employees, took “full responsibility” and apologized for the hiring.

• “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned,” he wrote. “Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.”

ACROSS PARTY LINES
NBC has political commentators and hosts from across party lines. Here’s some of their backgrounds:

⏳ SPEED READ

🚨NATION

📌 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate (MO NEWS)

📌 Why the “worst is yet to come” for chocolate prices as cocoa crop in trouble (CNBC)

📌 Trump selling $60 bibles, says it is time to “make America pray again” (AP NEWS) (Trump Sales Video)

📌 Texas AG Paxton settles felony fraud investigation, avoiding trial and ending years-long legal saga (CNN)

📌 Utah women’s basketball team switched hotels after experiencing racism, says head coach (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Hamas rejects latest 6-week ceasefire deal, demands permanent end to fighting (REUTERS)

📌 Meet the 80-year-old grandmother who’s taking on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro (WSJ) Venezuela opposition registers presidential candidate to keep spot on ballot (REUTERS)

📌 China hits back at US, UK for sanctions on espionage hacks as coordinated pressure on Beijing grows (CNN)

📌 UK court says Assange can’t be extradited on espionage charges until US rules out death penalty (AP)

📌 King Charles to make first major public appearance since cancer diagnosis (FOX NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Truth Social's stock jumps on first day of trading; Trump share now worth $4.6 billion (AP NEWS)

📌 Costco will crack down on non-members eating at food courts (FOX BUSINESS)

📌 Visa and Mastercard agree to $30 billion settlement that will lower $1-$3 merchant fees (AP)

📌 Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts for John Deere and others (NBC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Sean 'Diddy' Combs declares innocence after federal agents raid his homes (FOX NEWS)

📌 Jenn Tran named first Asian American 'Bachelorette' (USA TODAY)

📌 Controversial “Titanic” door prop sells for $718,750 (GUARDIAN)

📌 Famous sculptor Richard Serra dies (WASHINGTON POST)

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🗓 ON THIS DAY: MARCH 27

• 1964: The strongest earthquake (9.2) in North American history hit Alaska caused a tsunamis that together claimed about 130 lives.

• 1968: Red Lobster was incorporated.

• 1973: “The Godfather” won the Academy Award for best picture, but star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar for best actor. He sent actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place, who spoke out about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood.

• 1998: Viagra was approved by the FDA for use in treating erectile dysfunction.

• 2005: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ premiered on ABC.