Donald Trump has not forgotten his midsummer promise to publicly shame the Smithsonian. The Trump administration is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias, according to a letter I obtained sent by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. The September 3 letter, which Burgum sent to Senator Jeff Merkley, says that the National Park Service is planning to add about a dozen signs outside the museum at an estimated cost of $84,000.

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Gasoline prices have been up all summer, as have jet-fuel prices, as have home-heating-oil prices—but nothing has jumped quite like diesel. The average price for a gallon of diesel in the United States just hit an all-time high of $6.27, almost double what it was in late February.

The Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act, which the House will likely vote on this week, looks like a no-brainer for supporters of Ukraine who have been calling for President Trump to get tougher on Russia.
A large majority of America’s existing sanctions on Russia, which target thousands of government officials and companies, are currently enforced by executive order, meaning that the president can remove them whenever he wants.

When the Widow’s Bay creator Katie Dippold accepted her Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series last night, she joked that she was so proud of her win, she intended to display her trophy as prominently as possible in her home. The award would be mounted on a rotating turntable, she explained; mirrors would be set up around the space so that visitors could always see it, wherever they were. “This is going to become my entire personality now,” she warned.

The actor Jean Smart began her acceptance speech at the Emmys tonight with a request: “Just the men stay standing,” she said to the applauding crowd before her. “The girls get to sit down.”
She had just won her fifth-straight award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on HBO Max’s Hacks, about the tender and testy friendship between an unfiltered comedy legend (played by Smart) and an apprehensive Gen Z comedy writer (Hannah Einbinder).

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor Donald Trump will stop the United States Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots in the coming midterm elections. Tonight, the Supreme Court handed down an emergency ruling blocking the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that would have made mail-in voting so onerous as to be effectively impossible for election officials to administer.

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Donald Trump loves a deal, even if, at times, it’s just the idea of a deal. The president’s trade dispute with Canada continues to drive one of America’s closest allies into a closer relationship with its chief competition.

Not long ago, most of Washington was scrambling to be as friendly as possible to the rise of artificial intelligence. Lawmakers from both parties saw a chance to bolster the nation’s economy—and their campaign coffers. But rarely has public opinion flipped so quickly and so thoroughly as it has on AI in recent months.