Today's five.

The Supreme Court voted 7–2 to pause a May 1 ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would have banned mifepristone from being dispensed by mail, preserving nationwide access to the abortion pill while an underlying lawsuit brought by Louisiana against the FDA proceeds through the lower courts. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. The Fifth Circuit decision would have reinstated an in-person visit requirement for patients seeking the drug, affecting the entire country regardless of state abortion laws. Drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro had filed the emergency request prompting the court's action. Telehealth prescribing and mailing of abortion pills now account for more than 60% of all abortions in the health system.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has accused Yale University's medical school of illegally using race in its admissions process, concluding a year-long investigation with a formal letter sent Thursday. Federal investigators found that Black and Hispanic applicants are admitted at significantly higher rates than white and Asian applicants with comparable academic credentials, with one analysis finding Black applicants were as much as 29 times more likely to receive an interview than Asian applicants. The action marks the second time in eight days the Trump administration has targeted a major medical school over admissions policies. The DOJ is demanding Yale reform practices it says violate federal law and the Supreme Court's mandate against race-based admissions.

The situation in Iran is drawing renewed scrutiny from conservative commentators, with analysis centering on what went wrong and what viable paths forward exist. One perspective attempts to construct a scenario in which the conflict's outcome could have been less catastrophic, a framing that implicitly acknowledges the prevailing assessment that the outcome was indeed disastrous. A separate right-leaning voice calls for confronting the situation's blunt reality without evasion. Both treatments suggest consensus on the right that the Iran episode represents a serious policy failure, with debate now shifting toward accountability and next steps.