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Trump has been pushing Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps to boost his party's chances in the midterm elections.

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One of the top art museums in Paris has opened a new gallery dedicated to orphaned masterpieces plundered by the Nazis.

The exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay is part of France's reckoning with Nazi-era looting.

The paintings are hung so visitors can read the backs.

That's because the inventory marks map how the pieces moved from private homes into Nazi hands.

The Department of Education is investigating Smith College over alleged Title IX violations for admitting transgender and non-binary students.

NPR's Caden Mills reports Smith is one of the largest women's colleges in the U.S.,

Drivers in the self-proclaimed pizza capital of the United States will soon be able to get pizza state license plates.

Connecticut staked its claim as the pizza capital on welcome signs in 2024.

The plates bear the image of a pepperoni pizza slice.

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President Trump says that due to what he calls great progress being made toward an agreement to end the war with Iran, the U.S.

will stop helping guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but the U.S.

blockade will continue.

The U.S.

's latest effort to move ships safely through the strait did not seem broadly successful.

Only two U.S.-flagged ships have traversed the strait.

There are about 1,500 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf.