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military has helped dozens of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks.

NPR's Kat Lonsdorff reports.

The federal housing agency HUD is moving again to overhaul funding for homelessness people.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the change comes despite an ongoing lawsuit over the agency's push to shift money away from long-term housing.

As tensions remain high at the Newark, New Jersey Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, New Jersey Senator and former Newark Mayor Cory Booker is adding to the ongoing concerns about conditions inside.

He says many of those being held there are being treated inhumanely.

Meanwhile, demonstrators have periodically clashed with police outside the facility.

Booker told NPR a former Trump administration Border Patrol official is among those, he says, trying to stir up trouble with the protesters.

Over the weekend, New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill established a protected protest zone after officers fired tear gas into a crowd of protesters.

The NBA and NHL finals begin this week.

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and other local officials attended a ceremonial groundbreaking for a massive new data center Monday.

As Colin Jackson of Michigan Public Radio Network reports, the $16 billion campus near Ann Arbor is part of a larger nationwide AI infrastructure project.

is a primary election day in several states, including California, where voters there will decide the two finalists to seek the governor's office in November.

In all, 61 candidates are on the so-called nonpartisan jungle ballot.

The current governor, Gavin Newsom, is term limited.

There is also an election for the mayor of Los Angeles.

Voters will also cast ballots in Iowa for the U.S.