Today in One Sentence. Trump posted a map of the Strait of Hormuz that was labeled as “new U.S. territory”; U.S. Customs and Border Protection paused all border security construction in Big Bend National Park; ABC and Disney sued the FCC to block its early review of eight ABC broadcast licenses; the White House attacked CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes and her children after asking Trump to respond to Sen. Jon Ossoff’s criticism of him; the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations; Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary; the Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 federal monitors to polling places for the November midterms; and 33% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president – the lowest of his presidency.

1/ Trump posted a map of the Strait of Hormuz that was labeled as “new U.S. territory.” He also declared that no talks were underway or scheduled with Iran, contradicting Jared Kushner, who said conversations with “different areas of the Iranian government” were ongoing and “probably more robust” than ever. Nevertheless, Trump claimed that the waterway was “open and operating” and that “all water mines have been removed or detonated” even though shipping remains a fraction of prewar levels. Iran, meanwhile, maintains that Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S. lifts its blockade of Iranian ports, removes sanctions, and ends military operations. (Associated Press / Reuters / USA Today / CNBC / The Hill / ABC News)

2/ U.S. Customs and Border Protection paused all border security construction in Big Bend National Park. Commissioner Rodney Scott ordered the pause until he could conduct a “personal evaluation” and meet with local officials, law enforcement, and other stakeholders after the project drew bipartisan opposition, protests, and lawsuits over bulldozing and excavating in parts of the protected landscape. Republican Sen. John Cornyn and local sheriffs argued that Big Bend’s rugged terrain already acts as a natural barrier in a region that accounts for about 1% of border apprehensions. CBP, nevertheless, has already begun clearing land in the park for patrol roads and vehicle barriers. (Reuters / CNN / NBC News / Axios / New York Times)

  • The Forest Service proposed opening 44.7 million acres of undeveloped national forest to road construction and logging, including nine million undeveloped acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed that the restrictions have prevented forest management needed to reduce wildfire risk. (New York Times)

3/ ABC and Disney sued the FCC to block its early review of eight ABC broadcast licenses. In April, the FCC ordered an early review of the licenses while investigating Disney’s diversity and inclusion practices. The order, however, came immediately after Trump attacked ABC and called for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired over a joke that Melania Trump had a “glow like an expectant widow.” Chairman Brendan Carr separately argued that ABC’s decision not to air Trump’s Oval Office address could be raised during the review. ABC called the early review an “existential threat.” The FCC denied that the review was retaliatory, arguing that broadcasters have a legal obligation to operate in the public interest. (NBC News / New York Times / Politico / Washington Post / Axios)

4/ The White House attacked CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes and her children after asking Trump to respond to Sen. Jon Ossoff’s criticism of him. The White House’s “rapid response” account called Holmes a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession” and told her that her children would someday be “sickened and embarrassed” by her question. Trump told Holmes to “be quiet,” called her “disrespectful” and a “fake reporter,” and told her “you report fake news” as she tried to ask another question. CNN, meanwhile, called personal attacks on journalists asking questions “beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press.” (Washington Post / New York Times / The Guardian / Fox News)

5/ The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations. The bipartisan panel is reviewing allegations that Gomez “may have engaged in sexual misconduct,” including “engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.” However, the committee cautioned that the investigation “does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.” Gomez acknowledged making “personal mistakes outside my marriage,” but maintained that his actions were consensual and didn’t violate the law or House ethics rules. Gomez is seeking a sixth term. (Axios / Washington Post / NPR / CNN / CBS News / NBC News)

6/ Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary, even as he continues to push to restrict mail-in voting and has repeated baseless claims that mail-in voting is susceptible to widespread fraud. It was at least the third time Trump’s voted by mail in Florida. The Trump administration, meanwhile, asked the Supreme Court to revive parts of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterms after lower courts blocked parts of it.(Politico / The Guardian / New York Times / Reuters)

7/ The Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 federal monitors to polling places for the November midterms. Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon called the deployment “probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration.” While the department routinely sends monitors to enforce federal voting laws, an estimated 700 people were deployed for the 2024 presidential election and fewer than 300 for the 2022 midterms. (Associated Press / Washington Post / CBS News / The Hill)

poll/ 33% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president – the lowest of his presidency. (Reuters)

The 2026 midterms are in 77 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 812 days.

✏️ Notables.

  1. The Trump administration has deleted or altered nearly 400 federal datasets. At least 28 were deleted and 338 modified, with health data accounting for about 40% of the affected collections. Multiple CDC surveys removed gender-identity questions under Trump’s “Restoring Biological Truth” order, while at least four health datasets have stopped being updating entirely. (The Guardian)

  2. A federal judge blocked Trump’s plan to keep the FBI headquarters in Washington. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that the FBI and General Services Administration lacked authority to abandon the 2023 Biden-era decision to relocate the agency to Maryland and redirect $555 million to the Ronald Reagan Building, including $323 million Congress had appropriated for the Greenbelt project. (Reuters / ABC News / Washington Post / CBS News / CNN)

  3. The Justice Department asked an appeals court to reinstate charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed the human smuggling case as presumptively vindictive, finding prosecutors failed to show Abrego Garcia would have been charged without his successful wrongful deportation suit. Prosecutors, however, argued that the indictment rested on “legitimate reasons” and that then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments reflected a “normal assessment of the societal interest in punishment,” not retaliation. (Associated Press / ABC News)

  4. A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to end deportation protections for Ethiopians. The ruling lifted the last judicial block on ending Temporary Protected Status for more than 5,000 Ethiopians, making them eligible for deportation and ending their authorization to live and work in the U.S. (CNN / Reuters)

  5. U.S. borrowing costs hit their highest level since 2007. The 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.3% as investors pointed to inflation from the Iran war and higher oil prices, growing government debt, and heavy A.I. borrowing. (New York Times / Reuters / Bloomberg / ABC News)