Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, tensions

mount as the United States and Iran trade threats and compete for control of the Strait of Hormuz.

We explore how states are scrambling to redraw congressional maps ahead of November's midterm elections.

And nearly a month after Israeli strikes killed hundreds of people across Lebanon,

victims' families still search the rubble for remains.

This is not a Hezbollah area. This is a mixed area from different sects.

There were 22 bodies. All those pulled from the rubble were women and children.

Welcome to the news hour.

Top American officials said today the ceasefire with Iran had not ended, despite exchanges of fire in the Strait of Hormoz and Iranian attacks on U.S. allies in the Gulf.

Both the secretaries of state and defense said the U.S. was in a new phase of operations designed to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels

stuck in the Persian Gulf. But so far, very few ships appear to want to run the Iranian

gauntlet in the strait, and Iran remains defiant. Nick Schifrin again begins our coverage.

On the streets of Tehran today, even the statues are wrapped in nationalism.

Newspapers sneer at the U.S.'s new project freedom.

Signs celebrate regime continuity.

And posters proclaim Iran's stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's public rhetoric remains defiant.

Today the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz

without coordinating with Iran would be, quote, categorically dealt with.

And on X, Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker, Mohamed Ghalibaf, today accused the U.S.

of a violation of the ceasefire and warned, we have not even begun yet.

And for the second day in a row, the United Arab Emirates said it was attacked by Iranian

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