What to Know
- The Texas legislature kicks off a special session Monday to comply with Trump’s request to redraw the congressional maps and to address the flooding that killed at least 135 people this month.
- Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Native Americans.
- Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this” as well.
- Harvard University will appear in federal court Monday to make the case that the Trump administration illegally cut $2.6 billion from the storied college after it rejected a series of demands in an April 11 letter from a federal antisemitism task force.
- Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine only hours before the U.K. and Germany are to chair a meeting to discuss Trump’s plans for NATO allies to provide Ukraine with weapons.
Democratic state lawmakers are talking about staying away from the Capitol to deny the Legislature the minimum number needed to convene. Follow along for live updates.
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