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The Supreme Court ruling against drawing congressional maps to protect Black or other minority voters has sparked a new wave in the ongoing redistricting war. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins Amna Nawaz to discuss where things stand and what it means.

Three people are dead and nearly 150 remained quarantined Tuesday on a cruise ship off the coast of West Africa, as the World Health Organization investigates an outbreak of the rare but deadly hantavirus on board. William Brangham speaks with Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist and editor-at-large for public health at KFF News, to learn more.

Tomorrow marks four weeks since the day known as "Black Wednesday" in Lebanon. The Israeli military, claiming to be targeting Hezbollah militants, unleashed an unprecedented aerial campaign on April 8 that killed more than 350 people in a matter of minutes. Special correspondent Simon Foltyn reports.

In March, around 200,000 immigrants began losing their commercial driver's licenses, which are required to operate large vehicles like semi-trucks, buses and tractor-trailers. It's part of a series of moves by the Trump administration to limit who can drive those vehicles after some high-profile truck crashes involving foreign-born drivers. Lisa Desjardins reports.

Douglas Stuart won the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain," about a boy in 1980s Glasgow caring for his mother struggling with alcoholism. His latest novel "John of John," out today, follows a young man returning to his hometown on a rural Scottish island and grappling with his identity, religion and father. Geoff Bennett spoke with Stuart for our "Settle In" podcast.

Renowned trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis has launched a new project, a kind of call and response for these times. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Marsalis at the Jazz at Lincoln Center, for our series Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy, part of our CANVAS coverage.

The Rolling Stones announced a new album on Tuesday. It is titled "Foreign Tongues." It will arrive July 10 and feature the late Charlie Watts, Steve Winwood, Paul McCartney, The Cure's Robert Smith and The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith.

The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is because of the global energy crisis caused by the Iran War. The price of crude oil, which is the main ingredient in gasoline, has been climbing for most of the past two months because the Strait of Hormuz.

SAO PAULO (AP) — The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to hazardous levels, officials and experts say. A study released Tuesday by the nongovernmental organization Amazon Conservation, in partnership with Brazilian nonprofit Instituto Socioambiental, found illegal mining sites drove clear-cutting inside three conservation areas in the Xingu region, one of the world's largest expanses...

The award is tied to the Presidential Fitness Test, which was a public-school fixture for decades but was phased out under President Barack Obama in favor of a program that minimized competition and focused on long-term health. Trump signed an order last summer to reestablish the fitness test, which was created in the 1950s.

It was not a random act of violence and the attacker knew the victims, Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said.

Dean DelleChiaie, 35, of Nashua, was expected to make an initial court appearance Tuesday on a charge of interstate communication of a threat against the president

Employers posted 6.87 million jobs in March, compared to 6.92 million in February, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured when a driver plowed into people in a busy shopping area in the German city of Leipzig Monday in what officials believe was a deliberate attack. An unspecified number of people sustained less serious injuries, and the driver, a 33-year-old German citizen, was detained in the car, authorities said. Prosecutors said he is under investigation on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Other vehicle-ramming cases...

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House economists estimate that President Donald Trump's deals with pharmaceutical companies to drop some of their U.S. prescription drug prices to what they charge in other countries could save $529 billion over the next 10 years. The analysis obtained by The Associated Press includes the first economy-wide projections behind a policy at the core of Trump's pitch to voters going into November's midterm elections for control of the House and Senate....

Three passengers have died and at least four people are sick in what health officials say is an outbreak of hantavirus, which usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings.

The draft resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and Gulf nations and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, also demands that Iran "immediately participate in and enable" United Nations efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor in the strait to enable the delivery of vital aid, fertilizer and other goods.

On Tuesday afternoon, powerful Russian glide bombs smashed into the eastern city of Kramatorsk, the southern city of Zaporizhzhia and the northern city of Chernihiv, killing at least 17 civilians and wounding 45 others, officials said.

The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 188 people in total.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have added $1 billion in White House security upgrades to legislation that would fund immigration enforcement agencies, a proposed boost for President Donald Trump's ballroom project after a man was charged with trying to assassinate him at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner last week. The GOP bill released late Monday would designate the money for the U.S. Secret Service for "security adjustments and upgrades" related to the ballroom project,...