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delivered a significant win for Democrats, voting in a special election today to allow the state
“to redraw its congressional districts ahead of this year's mid-term elections next fall.”
That's according to a race call by the Associated Press. The new map creates as many as four additional Democratic districts, but it could face a challenge. The State Supreme Court
has yet to rule on the redistricting effort and could ultimately stop any new districts from being
used in this year's election. This is a counter to President Trump's push to add Republican seats in other states. President Trump has backed down from resuming bombing against Iran. And here's Franco Ordonia's reports, Trump's now extending the U.S. Iran's ceasefire until peace talks conclude. The President said Pakistan, which is mediating the talks, asked him to hold off on more attacks, but that the U.S. would stick around and that its
naval blockade of Iranian ports in the state of Ormuz would also continue. The Iranians call
“the U.S. blockade an act of war and signal that's why it refused to show up for the latest”
round of talks. Control of the straight has become a point of leverage in the war. Iran is maintained a tight grip on the straight for weeks, sending oil prices skyrocketing.
The U.S. has tried everything to get the critical waterway reopened, from repeated aggressive
threats against Iran, to now launching its own blockade against ships heading into or out of Iranian ports. Franco Ordonia's and Pyrenees, the White House. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, best known for tracking hate groups, is now facing indictment on federal fraud charges today. The Justice Department says an investigation into the group goes back years as NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports. A grand jury in Alabama
indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for years of alleged fraud. The civil rights group is facing charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, acting attorney general Todd Blanche says the organization paid to informants to infiltrate hate and extremist groups, and that includes groups like the KKK. Blanche said the group then used banks to hide these payments. The Southern Poverty Law Center's interim CEO, Brian Care, says the group is
being targeted by the Trump administration, and it plans to defend itself from the accusation. The Justice Department says the investigation into the non-profit is ongoing. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Texas can enforce a 2025 law requiring public schools to display the ten commandments and classrooms that reverses a lower court decision. The ACLU and religious freedom organization sued on behalf of 18 families in
December of 2025 claiming it violates the first amendment. The case could end up before the Supreme Court. You're listening to NPR News. Florida is the attorney general opened an investigation into OpenAI's chatGPT. This over the AI apps interaction with a gunman charged with a fatal shooting at Florida State University last year. Officials say they're trying to determine if the app aided or abetted the crime. An open AI spokesperson says the FSU shooting is a tragedy,
but that the company has no responsibility. For the first time in its 37 years, the Goldman Environmental Prize has gone to an all-woman cohort. One of the prize winners is an environmental defender from Colombia, as impures Julia Simon reports. 24-year-old Uveless Morales Blanco grew up in a fishing community along Colombia's Mandalena River. The community is also downstream of a major oil refinery and experience many oil spills. In 2019, Morales Blanco learned that her
community would be the site of a pilot project for fracking, fracking involves injecting water and chemicals to extract oil and gas. She founded a youth-led anti-fracking organization, which helped lead to Colombia's moratorium against fracking. Next week, Colombia is hosting a major international conference where dozens of countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Nigerian, Australia, will discuss how to transition away from fossil fuels. Julia Simon and
Pierre News Michael and Susan Dell updated $750 million to the University of Texas at Austin
to fund a new medical campus. Dell says the new center, including a hospital and research facility, will use AI and advanced computing and treating patients. Dell went to UT Austin but dropped out. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News. There's so much TV out there that we can't get to it all.
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