"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
Democrats are facing new setbacks in their national red-districting battle with Republicans
for control of the U.S. Congress.
“In Virginia, the State Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved congressional map that”
favored Democrats on the ground's proper procedures, were violated. Also today, in Alabama, Republicans approved plans for new primary elections if courts allow GOP-drawn house districts to be used this November. Yesterday in Tennessee, a GOP-back plan prevailed to carve up a Democratic-held Black majority-distruct covering Memphis.
The actions in the South come days after the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative misuper majority issued a ruling on Louisiana that week in the voting rights acts protections against racial discrimination. A group of protesters is suing the Department of Homeland Security to stop federal officers from taking the DNA of U.S. citizens arrested while protesting the agency's immigration
enforcement tactics. NPR is Meg Anderson his more. The four people who brought the case say they were peacefully protesting outside
“an ICE detention center near Chicago when they were arrested.”
Each was forced to give a DNA sample.
Two were never charged, and the other two faced misdemeanor charges that were later dismissed.
But they say the government still has their genetic profile. DHS did not respond to a request for comment, but in an earlier statement, DHS told NPR that federal law requires them to collect the DNA of people they arrest. The lawsuit argues, however, that a 2013 Supreme Court case only allows the practice in the case of serious crimes.
Meg Anderson and Perenuse. President Trump announced on social media today a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, as well as an exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side. The State Department says it will host another round of talks between Israel and Lebanon next week.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says it is in everyone's interest to stop his bullet from firing rockets at Israel. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the goal is to have a strong Lebanese government”
in control of its territory without an Iranian backed militia threatening anyone. We want the relations between Israel and Lebanon, its legitimate government to be very strong. The impediment to that is Hezbollah. Secretary Rubio launched the talks between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors in Washington in the middle of April and President Trump joined them just over a week later.
Thursday and Friday will be the third such gathering, even as Israel continues to occupy
large parts of southern Lebanon and continues to exchange fire with Hezbollah despite A.C. fire, Michelle Kellerman and PR news the State Department. This is NPR News. In the occupied West Bank, thousands of runners gathered in Bethlehem today for an annual Palestinian marathon, and NPR's Unespovo reports it for the first time in three years.
In Gaza held a simultaneous race under the banner, we run for freedom. Along the Mediterranean, the sound of sneakers bounding the ground briefly replaced the buzzing sound of these Israeli drones. More than 2,000 runners participated in the three-mile stretching gauzele. It mirrored the marathon in Bethlehem, where to complete the 26-mile renderer, runners
have to loot the same course twice because there is in the single stretch of Palestinian land that linked three of Israel's shockpoints of barriers. In Gaza, the backdrobot, the sea on one side and destruction from Israeli earth strikes on the other, and some wounded participants also bore scars for. But people here say the race highlights aspirations for Palestinian unity, and Sbaaba and
PR News goes a city. Canvas, the learning platform used by thousands of colleges and schools, is back online after a massive cyber attack, forced it to go dark yesterday. Canvas's parent cavity instructor says, "Grew calling itself shiny hunters asked for ransom and return for not releasing students' private information."
There's NPR's Cory Turner. In structure responded by taking Canvas offline. It discovered that the hackers had access the platform through special free accounts for teachers. Canvas is now back online, and the company says it has found no evidence that passwords, birth dates, or financial information were leaked, but the investigation is ongoing.
That's NPR's Cory Turner reporting, it's NPR News. This week, on Consider This, every day Americans are feeling it more, a wartime economy. Energy prices in March went up over 10%. Energy flows into everything else that we buy. The big picture on inflation, housing, and prices that aren't coming down.
That's on Consider This, you can listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
