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Alabama's new congressional map, which was designed to benefit Republicans in the midterm
“elections, Troy Public Radio's Joey Hudson reports.”
The three judge panel issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from switching maps. This comes as several southern states consider new voting districts after a Supreme Court ruling
on April 29th, which struck down Louisiana's congressional map creating a second majority
black district as a "unconstitutional racial gerrymandor." Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has praised the Supreme Court ruling. "My job in this office was to put the legislature in the best possible legal position to draw congressional map that favors Republicans 7 to 0." Similar redistricting efforts and other Republican-led states have also faced legal challenges.
The Trump administration is proposing a new government-wide non-disclosure agreement for federal employees and PR's Andrew Xu reports the administration says media leaks have put federal agents and military members in danger." In its proposed rule, the Office of Personnel Management says recent leaks about immigration
“enforcement and the U.S. rate on Venezuela underscore the need for NDAs.”
But the proposal also appears aimed at stopping leaks related to policy and personnel matters more generally. Already, federal workers are required to safeguard confidential and proprietary government information. Now the administration is defining that broadly, to include information about internal
agency operations and deliverative material that is not publicly available. According to the proposal, agencies would decide for themselves whether to use the NDA and federal employees would still have the right to disclose information as part of whistleblower complaints. And reassure and PR news.
The Iranian National soccer team will train and live in Mexico for the World Cup, and peers ate her parole to reports their matches will be in the U.S. President Trump had said that it wouldn't be appropriate for Iran to participate in the
“World Cup for "their own life and safety."”
But on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Schembaum said what the U.S. didn't want was the Iranian team spending nights in the U.S. And said she announced the Iranian team would take a residence in Diquano for the tournament, and would make day trips to the U.S. to play their matches. All of this is happening a little more than two weeks before the World Cup kicks off.
During the group stage, Iran is scheduled to play two games in the U.S. in one game in Seattle. 8 o'clock in PR news, Mexico City. A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.
Several drownings have been reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down, experts say, unpredictable, and extreme weather is becoming more frequent. The U.K. is warning of potential health risks, especially for older people. This is NPR news from Washington. 2/3 of Americans say they are cutting back on spending as prices rise due to the war in
Iran. Gas prices have soared to a nationwide average of $4.49 for a gallon of regular from $2.98 cents. Just before the war began at the end of February, and have been at or above $4.50 a gallon for nearly all of May.
The sports car maker Ferrari has unveiled its newest model in the company's share price properly tanked, and PR's John Rooch explains. The new car is a sleek Fordor sedan called the Ferrari Luchet, which is Italian for light. It was designed by Apple's former top designer Johnny Iv's firm love from, has a price tag of $640,000, and it's something totally new for Ferrari.
It's the company's first fully electric vehicle, so it won't have that signature engine
growl. Critics and investors were not impressed. On X, Italy's deputy prime minister and transport minister Mateo Salvini called it "extremely expensive," and said it looks nothing like a Ferrari. This is supposed to be innovation he wrote, adding he wondered what the company's late
founder Enzo Ferrari would think. Ferrari's Milan listed shares skitted 8.4% after the car was revealed, and its New York listed shares tumbled 5.3%. John Rooch and PR news. NASA is already ordering landers, rovers, and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than
two months after the Artemis 2 mission.
NASA outlined the first phase of its moon base plans today.
The hardware should arrive ahead of the first Artemis astronauts landing, which is planned for his early as 2028. We're listening to NPR News from Washington.
