In today’s newsletter: Trump-backed candidates in several Indiana state Senate races win their primaries. A legal battle over abortion pills considers what to do if a ban is enacted. And three sick passengers on a cruise ship stricken with hantavirus are evacuated.

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Trump exacts revenge in Indiana, with 5 GOP legislators defeated

President Donald Trump sought revenge on Indiana Republican legislators who foiled his redistricting push in the state last year — and won. Five incumbents have been unseated in yesterday’s primaries. Of the two others Trump targeted, one is locked in a tight race, and the other won his election.

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The double-digit defeats of the incumbents, some of whom are veterans of the Indiana Legislature, underscore the influence Trump continues to wield over the Republican Party, even as his approval rating among Americans broadly sags.

Trump intervened in the typically quiet local primary races after state lawmakers resisted a heavy-handed pressure campaign from the president and his allies and voted against redrawing their congressional maps. Six months later, several GOP lawmakers are paying the price for crossing Trump.

Notably, one of the senators who drew the president’s ire, Greg Goode, won his primary against Brenda Wilson, who Trump endorsed, and Alexandra Wilson, a network engineer (and not related to Brenda). White House officials and Trump allies aggressively sought to push Alexandra Wilson from the race because they feared she’d act as a spoiler and help Goode survive.

See which state Senators are on their way out of office — and who might replace them.

More election news:

• Meanwhile in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy won the Republican nomination for governor, setting up a fight against Democrat Amy Acton.

• Former Sen. Sherrod Brown won the Democratic Senate nomination and will face Republican Sen. Jon Husted in a general election that could help decide who controls the Senate next year.

• In the past, Ohio regularly decided presidential elections. Now its 2026 races could have national importance, and both Republicans and Democrats are feeing cautiously optimistic.

• Democrats will keep control of the Michigan state Senate.

More politics news:

• A House committee is set to grill Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who has offered shifting accounts about his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

• Republicans have proposed that $1 billion in taxpayer dollars be used for security measures at Trump’s new White House ballroom.

• An FAA employee was charged with threatening to kill Trump in an email.

Staff Pick: With telehealth abortions under siege, providers have a plan

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade four years ago, abortion providers have been bracing for attempts to further limit access to mifepristone — one of two pills involved in a medication abortion. The pill is in some ways a vulnerable target, since it’s part of a drug safety program that restricts how it can be prescribed.

The FDA has lifted several of those restrictions in the last decade — mostly recently, getting rid of a requirement for mifepristone to be dispensed in person. A lawsuit filed last year by the state of Louisiana seeks to bring the requirement back, which would in theory prohibit telehealth providers from sending the pills through the mail.

I covered the chaos and confusion over the weekend after a federal appeals court reinstated the in-person dispensing requirement and abortion providers sought legal counsel about what to do next. It was in many ways a trial run of what could happen if Louisiana prevails, demonstrating that telehealth abortions probably won’t grind to a halt. By Monday, the Supreme Court had blocked the appeals court’s decision, allowing telehealth abortions to continue for at least another week. — Aria Bendix, health reporter

Trump pauses effort to guide ships through Hormuz, citing progress on Iran deal

President Trump announced yesterday that the effort to force open the Strait of Hormuz, “Project Freedom,” was being put on hold, citing “tremendous Military Success” and “Great Progress” toward a peace deal with Iran.

“Project Freedom” aimed to use the U.S. military to break Tehran’s chokehold on the critical waterway, but the aggressive effort resulted in Iran attacking U.S. ships, and Iran came under American fire itself. Still, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asserted that the ceasefire was “not over.”

Two U.S. commercial ships that crossed the strait on Monday had U.S. military security teams aboard as Iran launched attacks against them, according to two U.S. officials.

Oil plunged and markets surged amid a report the U.S. and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war as gas prices jumped past $4.50.

Officials in Washington and Tehran were working on “a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations,” according to the report from Axios, which cited two U.S. officials and two additional sources.

What Trump’s Cabinet has said about the ceasefire.

Three sick passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship

The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak faced a new challenge today as a local leader opposed allowing it to dock in Spain.

The news came as the medical evacuation of three sick passengers to the Netherlands took place this morning.

Switzerland meanwhile confirmed that a man who had traveled on the ship was being treated for hantavirus in the Swiss city of Zurich.

Spain’s national government in Madrid had said that the Canary Islands would accept the ship and it would begin a three-to-four-day journey there — but the archipelago’s regional government opposed the move.

“This decision is not based on any technical criteria, nor is there sufficient information to reassure the public or guarantee their safety,” regional leader Fernando Clavijo told radio station COPE.

The WHO confirmed this outbreak is the Andes strain of the virus, which is known to be transmissible between people and is endemic in parts of Argentina, where the Hondius luxury cruise ship began its voyage.

The Hondius has almost 150 people on board and remains marooned off the coast of Cape Verde in west Africa, where it has been since at least Monday, after authorities refused it permission to dock.

Three passengers have died in the outbreak and the WHO said in an update today that there were so far eight cases, three of which are confirmed as hantavirus by laboratory testing.

Here’s what else we know about the outbreak.

What to know about scientists’ race for answers.

The era of cheap airfare could be over

Spirit Airlines apologized to the American public yesterday at a bankruptcy hearing, days after its shock shutdown. But for much of the airline industry, the company’s end did not come as a surprise. The sudden surge in jet fuel prices may have been the final nail in the coffin, but it wasn’t clear that Spirit could emerge from a second bankruptcy as a viable entity.

But Spirit isn’t alone in its struggles, and many of the same issues that it faced hang over Frontier. Both airlines have what one aviation consultant and economist refers to as a “spill model,” which attracts passengers looking to travel between large cities but are less likely to be able to afford a ticket on a large carrier. And that model is proving increasingly unviable.

Read more on the future of budget travel.

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• Two people were killed and three were injured after a business meeting ended in gunfire at a Korean supermarket outside of Dallas.

• Newly unsealed documents in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni legal battle reveal the inner workings of the case, the potential witnesses and the prospective evidence.

• NASA released thousands more photos from the Artemis II mission. Here are nine of the best.

• Former New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs was found not guilty of assaulting his live-in chef.

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