Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. The U.S. military says it fired a missile to disable a commercial ship that was headed toward a port in Iran.

This is the U.S. and Iran are still trying to work out a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

And here's Greg Myrie has more.

U.S. forces issued more than 20 warnings telling the commercial ship that was in violation of the U.S. blockade.

When the ship still refused to comply, a U.S. aircraft shot a hellfire missile into the engine room of the vessel,

the Leon Star, which is registered in Gambia.

U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East, said the missile disabled the ship.

The commercial vessel was in the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz,

where the U.S. Navy is enforcing the blockade that prevent ships going to or from Iranian ports.

In another development, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking in Singapore, said U.S. forces are prepared to resume military action if no deal is reached on ending the conflict.

Greg Myrie, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

A federal judge will review the Trump administration's nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund.

MPR's Bobby Allen reports it comes after 35 former federal judges questioned the fund's

legitimacy.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in Florida has ordered Trump's lawyers to respond to

the former federal judges who claim the lawsuit that led to the fund is, quote, a fraud

on the court. Trump sued the IRS over the leaking of his taxes. The case settled

with a nearly $1.8 billion fund for those who claim to be victims of political persecutions.

The problem, according to the former judges, is that Trump is both the plaintiff and the defendant.

Trump filed a lawsuit as president, and he is the leader of the executive branch

overseeing the IRS. The former judges wrote that the lawsuit was an example of collusion and asked

the court to investigate whether it had been deceived. William says she is, quote, empowered to

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