Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

Federal judges are temporarily blocking Alabama's new congressional map, which was designed to benefit Republicans in the midterm elections.

Troy Public Radio's Joey Hudson reports.

The three-judge panel issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from switching maps.

This comes as several southern states consider new

voting districts after a Supreme Court ruling on April 29th, which struck down Louisiana's

congressional map, creating a second-majority black district as a, quote, unconstitutional racial

gerrymander. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has praised the Supreme Court ruling.

My job in this office was to put the legislature in the best possible legal position to draw a

congressional map that favors Republicans seven to zero. Similar redistricting efforts in other

Republican-led states have also faced legal challenges. For NPR news, I'm Joey Hudson

in Troy, Alabama. The Trump administration is proposing a new government-wide non-disclosure agreement

for federal employees. NPR's Andrea Shue reports the administration says media leaks have put

federal agents and military members in danger. In its proposed rule,

the Office of Personnel Management says recent leaks about immigration enforcement and the U.S.

rate on Venezuela underscore the need for NDAs. But the proposal also appears aimed at stopping

leaks related to policy and personnel matters more generally.

Already, federal workers are required to safeguard confidential and proprietary government information.

Now the administration is defining that broadly to include information about internal agency operations and deliberative material that is not publicly available.

According to the proposal, agencies would decide for themselves whether to use the NDA,

and federal employees would still have the right to disclose information as part of whistleblower complaints.

Andrea Shue and PR News.

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