Today in One Sentence. The Treasury Department gave Iran a 60-day waiver to sell oil, including to U.S. buyers, before negotiators reached a final deal over Iran’s nuclear program; a federal judge blocked six grand jury subpoenas from Trump’s Justice Department targeting Tim Walz and other Minnesota officials; the Trump administration plans to withhold 20% of homeland security grants from states unless they move to hand-marked paper ballots and run voter rolls through a DHS citizenship database; a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from building a database that combines millions of Americans’ Social Security numbers and citizenship status; at least five people have been arrested and five others cited for alleged vandalism at Trump’s newly renovated Reflecting Pool; and 78% of Americans say the Iran war should end now, and 69% say the conflict wasn’t worth the costs.

1/ The Treasury Department gave Iran a 60-day waiver to sell oil, including to U.S. buyers, before negotiators reached a final deal over Iran’s nuclear program. JD Vance said Iran had agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back “as soon as today,” though Iran’s foreign ministry said it’s made “no new commitments.” The talks, however, nearly collapsed after Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Trump responded by warning the U.S. could “hit Iran very hard again.” Meanwhile, Qatar and Pakistan said the sides had agreed to keep technical talks going, set up a hotline to avoid incidents in the Strait of Hormuz, and create a mechanism to keep fighting in Lebanon from derailing the deal, even though Israel isn’t part of the U.S.-Iran agreement and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israeli forces would keep “full freedom of action” there. Vance also floated unfreezing Iranian assets only for purchases of U.S. soy, corn, and wheat under U.S. and Qatari oversight, calling it “a classic Trump deal,” while warning: “You can’t trust anybody’s words. You have to trust what they actually do.” (New York Times / Washington Post / Politico / NPR / Associated Press / Reuters / Axios / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / CNBC / CNN / NBC News / ABC News / CBS News)

2/ A federal judge blocked six grand jury subpoenas from Trump’s Justice Department targeting Tim Walz and other Minnesota officials, ruling that their “dominant purpose” was to “coerce” them into helping enforce Trump’s immigration crackdown and to “harass and retaliate” against them for failing to do so. Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, said DOJ failed to identify “a single plausible investigatory justification” for the subpoenas, which targeted the offices of Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, and officials in Hennepin and Ramsey counties. The subpoenas were issued during Operation Metro Surge, when thousands of federal agents were sent into the Twin Cities for Trump’s immigration crackdown, which drew protests and included the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. (Politico / Reuters / CBS News / ABC News / New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / Bloomberg / CNN)

3/ The Trump administration plans to withhold 20% of homeland security grants from states unless they move to hand-marked paper ballots and run voter rolls through a DHS citizenship database. The draft rules would tie more than $1 billion in terrorism prevention, infrastructure protection, and disaster preparedness funding to election changes that Trump has authority to impose on his own. The plan also requires states to use SAVE, a DHS database critics say can wrongly flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens. (CNN)

4/ A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from building a database that combines millions of Americans’ Social Security numbers and citizenship status, saying the government “knowingly trampled” on privacy rights in a way that threatens “the sacred right to vote.” U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the revised DHS SAVE system unlawfully merged Social Security Administration data into a clearinghouse Congress had prohibited, and then gave states access despite “deep concerns” about its accuracy. States have already run voter rolls through the system, and some voters were wrongly flagged as non-citizens and had their registrations canceled. Sooknanan also said falsely labeling people as non-citizens could amount to defamation, rejecting the administration’s attempt to minimize the consequences as bordering “on the absurd.” (Politico)

5/ At least five people have been arrested and five others cited for alleged vandalism at Trump’s newly renovated Reflecting Pool, who has claimed, without evidence, that vandals “took some form of knife or blade” and cut a 250- to 300-foot “gash” into the “American flag blue” coating and “poured corrosive and destructive chemicals” into the water. The claim comes as the $14.7 million renovation has been overtaken by algae and peeling paint less than three weeks after reopening, with chunks of coating floating in the water and law enforcement citing people for touching or removing them. Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, one of those arrested, denied damaging anything, saying: “I didn’t vandalize anything. I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” Reporters at the pool, meanwhile, couldn’t find Trump’s claimed gash, and the Interior Department hasn’t explained why the new coating is peeling. Trump nevertheless warned that “there is a 10-year prison sentence” for destroying or attempting to destroy federal property, “which will be fully enforced.” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said anyone “vandalizing or attempting to vandalize” the pool will “face the criminal justice system in D.C.” (NBC News / Washington Post / Axios / Wall Street Journal / Reuters)

poll/ 78% of Americans say the Iran war should end now, and 69% say the conflict wasn’t worth the costs. (CBS News)

⏩︎ Notably Next: The Supreme Court is expected to decide four cases that test the limits of Trump’s power, including whether he can redefine birthright citizenship, fire a Federal Reserve governor, remove heads of independent agencies without cause, and end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Meanwhile, Trump, who has predicted he’ll the birthright citizenship case, has called the justices as “weak,” “stupid,” “bad,” and disloyal in recent days. (Wall Street Journal / Washington Post)

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