• The Bureau of Land Management approved a 732-mile high-voltage transmission line for renewable energy stretching from south-central Wyoming to southern Nevada.
  
  

• New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a record number of sexually transmitted infection cases, with more than 2.5 million cases reported in 2021.
  
  

• Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf says misinformation is partly responsible for lowering life expectancy in the U.S.

Top lawmakers now have access to classified documents recovered from former President Trump‘s and President Biden‘s homes.

The Justice Department is leading investigations into Biden and Trump over the documents. The department shared the documents with the Gang of Eight — all four congressional leaders and the top Republican and Democrat from each chamber’s Intelligence Committee. 

Lawmakers “argue they need to oversee the potential national security fallout from the failure to keep the documents properly stored,” The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch wrote.

Some on the Senate Intelligence Committee had suggested withholding funds from the Justice Department if it didn’t share the documents.

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In an exclusive interview with The Hill, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal previewed his trip to Washington for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

“We indeed see losses in terms of economy, in terms of human lives, and these losses indeed exercise a heavy toll on all ourselves,” Shmyhal said, but added, “it doesn’t mean that we do not have bravery left or inspiration left or forces left, to fight until the final victorious moment that we all strive for.”

Read more from Laura Kelly here

The Hill’s Brooke Migdon and Lexi Lonas look at the ways LGBTQ advocacy groups are fighting a possible expansion of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education measure, known by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

“The threat to Democracy behind the farce in Tennessee” — Glenn C. Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University and co-author (with Stuart Blumin) of “Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century.”(Read here)

“Believe it or not, some legislators are hard at work” — Kevin R. Kosar, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, co-editor of “Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform” and host of the Understanding Congress podcast. (Read here)

President Biden will speak at Ulster University in Belfast, Ireland.