Politics

An executive order directs the National Park Service to post temporary signage near the National Museum of American History telling visitors its exhibits contain inaccurate information. The president has no authority over the museum itself — but the sidewalk out front is federal parkland.

State data shows 148,241 mail ballots were thrown out — a 1.73% rejection rate and a jump from recent primaries. The single biggest reason wasn't fraud or signatures but timing, and experts point to changes in how the Postal Service applies postmarks.

A revolt over water use, electric bills and vanishing ranchland is scrambling partisan lines in rural Texas. Democratic governor nominee Gina Hinojosa is betting it can dent Greg Abbott — even as prominent Republicans lead the backlash themselves.

Days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rolled out testosterone screening and treatment for troops, a federal judge overseeing a challenge to the transgender military ban ordered both sides to explain how offering that hormone therapy to some service members squares with prohibiting it for trans men.

Former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty and will stand trial June 1, 2027. His lawyers plan to fight the case first on sovereign immunity — and to challenge the legality of the operation that brought him to the US.

In a party-line 216-214 vote, the House adopted a Republican budget blueprint to fund the war against Iran, aid tariff-hit farmers, and advance Trump's voting-law agenda — over unified Democratic opposition and an uncertain path in the Senate.

Nicolás Maduro and his wife are back before a federal judge in Manhattan for a pretrial hearing. The scheduling questions are routine; almost nothing else about the case is.

President Trump signed proclamations slapping 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, reaching for a 1930 law never used this way before. Canada calls it a 'regrettable escalation' — and both sides now have about 30 days to cut a deal.