Today in One Sentence. The Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in the November midterms; a federal appeals court refused to let the Trump administration enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots before the midterms; Trump promised to send every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms; the Trump administration plans to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees in 30 states weeks before the November elections; Jimmy Kimmel moved his interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico from ABC to YouTube after the FCC “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions”; and the prosecutor overseeing Trump’s “grand conspiracy” investigation resigned without bringing criminal charges.

1/ The Supreme Court blocked Missouri from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in the November midterms. The unsigned order leaves the state to use its 2022 map for the midterms, which keeps intact a Kansas City-area seat that Democrats currently hold. The ruling also suspended a federal judge’s order that revived the GOP-favored map after Missouri’s Supreme Court ruled the new districts couldn’t take effect unless voters approved them in a referendum. Election officials, however, must now run the general election using different district lines than those used in the August primary. (NBC News / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / Associated Press / Reuters / Washington Post / CBS News / ABC News / CNN)

2/ A federal appeals court refused to let the Trump administration enforce new restrictions on mail-in ballots before the midterms, leaving in place an injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service rule. The rule would require states to provide the Postal Service with voter information and unique ballot barcodes and would allow postal officials to return or refuse delivery of ballots that don’t comply. The three-judge panel concluded that the rule is likely unlawful because the Constitution gives states and Congress – not the executive branch – authority to regulate elections, and warned that implementing it now would “likely result in the disenfranchisement of millions of voters” while providing “minimal – if any – gains in combating voter fraud.” (Reuters / Associated Press / Bloomberg / CBS News / The Guardian)

3/ Trump promised to send every American adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms. The proposal would cost more than $1 trillion, require congressional approval, exacerbate the nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit, and lead to a rise in inflation. JD Vance, nevertheless, suggested that a “dividend for American workers” could be paid for by Trump’s tariff revenue. The cost of the dividend checks, however, would exceed the estimated $330 billion that the U.S. has collected from Trump’s tariffs. (Politico / New York Times / Reuters / Associated Press / Semafor / Washington Post / CNN / CBS News / NPR / CNBC)

4/ The Trump administration plans to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Affordable Care Act enrollees in 30 states weeks before the November elections. The payments will go to people who bought coverage through HealthCare.gov without premium subsidies using surplus fees collected from insurers to operate the federal marketplace. The White House claimed without evidence that the Biden administration had “overcharged.” Health policy experts, however, said some of the surplus dates back to Trump’s first term. The administration didn’t explain how the $500 payment was calculated, and it’s unclear whether congressional approval is required. (Axios / Politico / Associated Press / Reuters / Washington Post / CNN / New York Times)

5/ Jimmy Kimmel moved his interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico from ABC to YouTube after the FCC “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.” Kimmel said the FCC “has threatened me, threatened our show, threatened our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations,” and explained that he pulled the broadcast “out of consideration” for affiliates that have to “deal with this nonsense.” Talarico is running in a competitive Texas Senate race against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. In January, the FCC changed its guidance on the equal-time rule, saying late-night and daytime talk shows are not automatically exempt from a requirement that broadcasters offer equal opportunities to political candidates running for the same office. And in April, the FCC ordered early license renewals for Disney’s eight ABC stations. (CNBC / Washington Post / New York Times / NBC News / Wall Street Journal)

6/ The prosecutor overseeing Trump’s “grand conspiracy” investigation resigned without bringing criminal charges. Joe diGenova’s investigation tried to establish that Obama- and Biden-era officials had engaged in a long-running criminal conspiracy against Trump to keep him out of office. Despite issuing dozens of subpoenas, no charges have been brought, and it’s unclear what evidence even supported the conspiracy theory. Justice Department had also officials reportedly lost confidence in diGenova’s leadership. When asked why he was leaving, diGenova replied: “I’m moving on.” (ABC News / Associated Press / NBC News / Reuters / CBS News)

The 2026 midterms are in 54 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 789 days.