The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will distribute $9.7 million in grant funding to help states, Tribes and territories monitor water quality at beaches across the country, including Delaware and Maryland. The effort is aimed at keeping swimmers safe from illness-causing bacteria this summer.

A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law “is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”