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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Voters went to the primary election polls in four states Tuesday, turning out for congressional elections and other offices of Maryland, South Carolina, Utah, and New York, where all three of the congressional candidates endorsed by New York City, mayors are on Mamdani, advanced to the November midterms, the first major test of Momdani's political movement. President Trump traveled Tuesday to the swing state of Pennsylvania,

where he toured a Mack Trucks facility and addressed a crowd that cheered him. At long last, you finally have a president who is putting workers first, putting Pennsylvania first, and putting America first. We're doing that and we're doing it like nobody's ever seen before. On this trip to Pennsylvania came amid a dispute over whether Iran has agreed to allow into the country UN nuclear inspectors. On Capitol Hill, the Senate passed Tuesday a war powers resolution on the 10th try. Four Republicans joined Democrats in the 50 to 48 vote. The International Maritime Organization says it's beginning in operation to evacuate more than 11,000 seafarers who've been stranded on ships in the Persian Gulf because of the Iran War.

The maritime authority says it has secured the necessary guarantees to support the operation. Here's NPR's Jackie Northam. The IMO has been working on evacuation plans for thousands of seafarers since the war in Iran began in late February. It's only now that Iran and the U.S. have an enormous. interim peace agreement that the operation can move ahead. In a statement, IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez says the large-scale operation will be carried out in close cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal states in the Gulf region, as well as the U.S. and the maritime industry. Attached to his statement is a notice from Oman, saying it will provide a temporary maritime corridor

for ships carrying the seafarers and the evacuation will be phased to avoid collision. Jackie Northam, NPR News. The Supreme Court has ruled that a Louisiana man cannot seek financial damages for having his religious liberty violated while in prison. NPR's Jason DeRos reports on the six to three decision that fell along ideological lines. Damon Landor is a practicing Rastafarian, and while incarcerated in Louisiana, state prison officials forcibly cut off his dreadlocks. The haircut violated Landor's religious beliefs. That was not in dispute. But the court majority ruled the religious land use and institutionalized persons act under which the case was brought can't be used to hold prison officials financially responsible even if they violate inmates' rights.

In her dissent, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote that the ruling means, quote, prisoners who suffer violations of their religious freedom in state prisons, no matter how blatant, will often be left remedialess. Jason DeRose, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News. Officials in Northern California say the 18-year-old suspect in a shooting at a library that left two people dead is to be arraigned on Thursday. The shootings occurred Monday evening at the Chico branch of the Butte County Library. Authorities say the suspect demonstrated an affinity for the 1999 Columbine shooting. In Utah, the National Weather Service issuing renewed warnings for extreme wildfire danger through the end of the week, putting the state further on edge with multiple major fires burning.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reports thousands of people have been evacuated across the state. The Cottonwood Fire in southern Utah is threatening homes in a mom-and-pop ski area. It went from just a few acres to 10,000 acres in a day, which is not a surprise to fire managers who have been warning that the West is extraordinarily hot and dry. Utah's governor Spencer Cox has been pleading with the public to stay vigilant and be careful. Upwards of three quarters of most wildfires these days are caused by here. humans, be it a spark from a semi-truck on dry grass by a highway or an illegal campfire. The weather is forecasted to stay hot with now an increasing chance for thunderstorms.

These could do more bad than good. The rain is badly needed, but the winds and lightning could spark more fires. Kirk Sigler and PR News. Cristiano Ronaldo is now the only player to score in six different World Cup tournaments. He made history Tuesday during Portugal's 5-0 win over Uzbekistan, scoring in the sixth minute of the match and then again in the 39th minute. Meanwhile, England and Ghana played to a scoreless draw Tuesday, leaving both looking ahead to their next match to secure a spot in the knockout round. This is NPR News.