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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ramm. Lawmakers Alabama will hold a special session tomorrow following the Supreme Court ruling that race should not be a factor in drawing voting districts. Pat Duggans of Alabama Public Radio reports. That puts one Democratic House member in the crosshairs.
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Congressman Shomari Figures is up for reelection this November in Alabama. That is assuming his district is still there. The U.S. supreme Court ordered Alabama to create a second black house seat in 2023. Now those same justices say race doesn't matter. Figures has said he doesn't worry about the uncertainty.
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We got elected to represent a certain part of the state of Alabama in District 2, and that's what we spend our time doing. I worry about things that I can control. I do not stress out about things that I cannot control.
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Alabama's attorney general wants the US Supreme Court to overturn an earlier injunction that keeps District 2's map in place until 2030. For NPR News, I'm Pat Duggans in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Members of OPEC agreed today on a modest oil output in June. This is largely a symbolic gesture as long as the Iran war disrupts Gulf oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. Even when shipping resumes, it will take several weeks, if not months for supplies to return to normal. President Trump has said gas prices will drop after the war in Iran ends. Patrick DeHaan is the head of petroleum for GasBuddy. He says it could take more than a year for for prices to go back to pre war levels. In the meantime, they continue to rise.
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I would expect that the national average on Memorial Day would probably be somewhere in that four fifty to five dollars a gallon mark and depending on where we go beyond that into the summer is contingent on whether or not the Strait of Hormuz reopens. And keep in mind, we are also now just a little over a month away from seeing the start of Atlantic hurricane season, another factor that could push prices to records later this summer.
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He was interviewed on abc. Ukrainian uncrewed vessels have struck two tankers in the Black Sea that are used to transport Russian oil. The Kremlin says the attacks could push global oil prices even higher. It's the latest in a series of strikes Ukraine's president says are targeting Russia's so called Shadow Fleet. NPR's Hannah Palmerenko reports from Kyiv.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video showing the sea drones striking the sterns of the vessels and the tankers were in the waters near the port of Novorossiysk in Russia. This is the third successful attack by Ukrainian sea drones in the past week. Earlier, two of the uncrewed vessels struck a sanctioned tanker southeast of the Russian city of Toopse. The next day, Ukrainian navy struck two Russian patrol boats guarding the Kerch Bridge, which connects occupied Crimea with Russian territory. And in an attack by air, Ukrainian drones struck Primorsk Sunday, Russia's largest oil exporting port on the Baltic Sea, sparking a fire. Hanna Polomarenko, NPR News, Kyiv.
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This is NPR News. A search is underway for two U.S. service members missing during military exercises in Morocco yesterday. They were taking part in war games that began in April and stretch across four countries. The other countries are Tunisia, Ghana and Senegal. The operation is called African Lion. It's an annual US Joint military exercise that usually features high ranking military officials from the US and its top African allies. Millions of Americans could now be considered Canadian under a new law expanding citizenship based on ancestry. Ari Snyder of Maine Public reports the
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change was sparked by a 2023 court ruling that Canada's one generation limit on citizenship by descent was unconstitutional. Doug Cochran, a genealogist in Nova Scotia, says he's been swamped by research requests from people trying to prove Canadian ancestry. He prioritizes coming from LGBTQ Americans because
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people have a right to be who they are and if they can't do it in their home country, well, come to Canada. We'll welcome you.
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Canadian immigration authorities say in the six week period after the law took effect in December, they received more than 12,000 proof of citizenship applications. For NPR News, I'm Ari Snyder in Portland, Maine.
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The history was made at horse racing's Kentucky Derby last night. The winner was Golden Tempo. Cherie Devoe was the first woman to train the winner of the first leg of the Triple Crown. She's just the second woman to train the winner of any of the three races. She said she never thought about the challenges of being a woman working in that sport, saying the racetrack is a tough place for anyone. I'm Nora Ramm, NPR News, in Washington.
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