Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The U.S. military says it fired on and

disabled two Iranian oil tankers after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz.

The United Arab Emirates reported another missile strike and drone attack today. The violence further

undermines a month-old ceasefire that U.S. officials insist

remains in effect. Iran says U.S. strikes violate the truce. The Trump administration is

awaiting Tehran's response on the latest U.S. proposal aimed at ending the war. President

Trump has been dismantling a key federal office responsible for investigating and prosecuting

corruption allegations. much of the

impact will be felt far from Washington, D.C., as NPR's Ryan Lucas explains.

Smaller states and more rural places, that's where the public integrity section would step in

with resources and expertise and do these cases to hold corrupt state and local officials

to account. An example of that is the

prosecution of a former police officer in a small town in Pennsylvania who was convicted of bribery

and other offenses, including using his position to obtain sex from two women in exchange for favors

in prosecutions. And people tell me that without the public integrity section,

doing these sorts of cases, it's likely that those sorts of abuses of power are going to continue

unchecked. NPR's Ryan Lucas reporting, Alabama's Republican Attorney General has asked the U.S.

Supreme Court to lift a federal court order requiring the state to use a race-based congressional map for the state's

upcoming congressional primaries. It comes after Alabama's Republican governor tentatively approved

new congressional maps to favor Republicans today, part of a broader redistricting push after the

Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.

Democrats fought the legislation pushed through by the Republican supermajority in the Alabama

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