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The U.S. military says it fired on and disabled to Iranian oil tankers after exchanging
fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates reported another missile strike and drone attack today. The violence further undermines a month-old ceasefire that U.S. officials insist remains in effect. Iran says U.S. strikes violate the troops.
The Trump administration is awaiting Taran's response in the latest U.S. proposal aimed at ending the war.
“President Trump has been dismantling a key federal office responsible for investigating”
and prosecuting corruption allegations. Much of the impact will be felt far from Washington, D.C., as NPR's Ryan Lucas explains. Smaller states in more rural places, that's where the public integrity section would step in with resources and expertise, and do these cases to hold corrupt state and local officials to account.
An example of that is the prosecution of a former police officer in a small town of Pennsylvania who was convicted of bribery and other offenses, including using his position to obtain sex from two women in exchange for favors and prosecutions. And people tell me that without the public integrity section, doing these sorts of cases, it's likely that those sorts of abuses of power are going to continue unchecked.
NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting, Alabama's Republican Attorney General has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal court order requiring the state to use a race-based congressional
“map for the state's upcoming congressional primaries.”
It comes after Alabama's Republican Governor tentatively approved new congressional maps to favor Republicans today. Part of a broader redistricting push after the Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports Democrats fought the legislation pushed through by the Republican
Supermajority in the Alabama Legislature. Democratic State Senator Roger Smither man says it erases 60 years of electoral gains under the Voting Rights Act.
And that is so disturbing and so wrong, the way that one-third of the people in this state
are being disenfranchised, denied an opportunity to have representation. But Republican Garland Godger, the President Pro Tem of the Alabama Senate, says "Race is the wrong focus." The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs tapping into public curiosity about the unidentified phenomena.
The files featuring intriguing sightings such as a bright object making 90 degree turns over Kazakhstan and Buzz Aldrin observing a light source during Apollo 11, the release aims to promote transparency, though experts warn these videos can be misinterpreted some members of Congress for pushing for further disclosure. This is NPR News.
One of Iran's top museums is holding a rare exhibit of American artists drawing art lovers at a time when the two countries are locked in conflict, Tehran's museum of contemporary art put on a display six works by three American pop artists of the 1960s, mainly chosen for the anti-war themes, the pieces come from the museum's large collection of American and European modern art that was acquired by the wife of the former Shah in the 1970s.
Britain's celebrating the 100th birthday of its beloved nature broadcaster David Attenborough NPR's Fatima Al-Kasab reports. In London's Trafalgar Square, fans dressed as bumblebees and lions gathered to wish the day that a happy birthday, commuter Andriyan and I do stop to pay tribute to the man considered a national treasure in Britain.
“His voice, I think British people collect his voice with, nature, and good things.”
He first appeared on British TV back in the 1950s.
Over the decades, his documentaries, which have seen him cuddle guerrillas, get up close to blue whales, and explore the mating rituals of fireflies, have given hundreds of millions of viewers a closer look at the wonders of the natural world. Fatima Al-Kasab NPR News London. The NBA's Philadelphia 676ers are donating 500 tickets to upcoming playoff games to local community
groups, the move aims to keep more sixers fans in the arena and prevent New York nicks fans from taking over to night 250 front line medical personnel and 250 local educators are attending its NPR. 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.
