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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Chapter 2: What recent setbacks are Democrats facing in redistricting battles?
Democrats are facing new setbacks in their national redistricting 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 grounds 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-backed plan prevailed in to carve up a Democratic-held black majority district covering Memphis. The actions in the South come days after the U.S.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act?
Supreme Court's conservative supermajority issued a ruling on Louisiana that weakened the Voting Rights Act's 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.
Chapter 4: How is the U.S. government responding to protests against immigration enforcement?
citizens arrested while protesting the agency's immigration enforcement tactics. NPR's Meg Anderson has 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.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine?
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, NPR News.
President Trump announced on social media today a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, as well as an exchange of a thousand prisoners from each side.
Chapter 6: What happened during the Palestinian marathon in Bethlehem and Gaza?
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 Hezbollah 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 ceasefire.
Michelle Kellerman, NPR 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 Anas Baba reports that for the first time in three years, runners in Gaza held a simultaneous race under the banner, We Run for Freedom.
Along the Mediterranean, the sound of sneakers pounding the ground briefly replaced the buzzing sound of the Israeli drones. More than 2,000 runners participated in the three-mile stretch in Gaza.
It mirrored the marathon in Bethlehem, where to complete the 26-mile run there, runners have to loop the same course twice because there isn't a single stretch of Palestinian land that length three of Israel's choke points of barriers. In Gaza, the backdrop was the sea on one side and destruction from Israeli airstrikes on the other. And some wounded participants also bore scars of war.
But people here say the race highlights aspirations for Palestinian unity. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City.
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Chapter 7: How did a cyber attack impact the learning platform Canvas?
Canvas' parent company Instructure says the group, calling itself Shiny Hunters, asked for ransom in return for not releasing students' private information.
NPR's Corey Turner. Instructure responded by taking Canvas offline. It discovered that the hackers had accessed the platform through special free accounts for teachers. Canvas is now back online, and the company says it has found no evidence that passwords, birthdates, or financial information were leaked, but the investigation is ongoing. That's NPR's Corey Turner reporting. It's NPR News.
This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, President Trump has never been more unpopular. And the midterms are now less than six months away.
So the intensity of opposition that's waiting for a lot of these Republican candidates in a general election is very, very high.
The politics of a wartime economy this week on the NPR Politics Podcast. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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