New York Times

1. House Passes Stalled Homeland Security Funding Bill, Ending Shutdown

   Republicans were forced to use a special maneuver to steer around opposition in their own party and speed the measure to the floor, relying on Democrats to push it through.

2. Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General

   Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

3. Crop Undercount Raises Questions About Reliability of U.S.D.A. Data

   Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.

4. The Vaccine Skeptic in Trump’s New C.D.C. Leadership Team

   Dr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.

5. How Trump’s Iran Blockade Is Complicating a High-Stakes Trip to China

   If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.