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These days, with all the information coming at you, it can be hard to know what's accurate, what's not, and what's worth your time. Here to help you navigate it all is 1A. Five days a week, the 1A podcast provides a forum for Curate's Minds to explore different angles on the biggest headlines and give you a more balanced take on what's happening. Listen to the 1A podcast from NPR and WAMU. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. A judge Monday ruled at the state of your state of your own. Utah must redraw its congressional district map ahead of next year's midterm election. As NPR's Hansilo-Wong reports, Utah is one of several states with new redistricting plans

that may determine whether Republicans keep control of Congress. Utah's Republican-controlled legislature now has a month to come up with a congressional map to replace one they drew after repealing a ban on partisan gerrymandering under what's known as Proposition 4. Utah District Court Judge Diana Gibson ruled that repealing that ballot initiative approved by Utah voters violated the state's constitution. Other states are dealing with new legal challenges over congressional redistricting. A Texas map that the state's GOP-controlled legislature passed at President Trump's request to help Republicans is facing claims that it discriminates against Latino and black voters. In California, Republicans are asking that state's high court to review a Democratic-led effort

to offset Texas's map with a special election ballot measure that will allow a new map that could benefit Democrats. Ansi Luong, NPR News. be Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson held a joint news conference Monday to criticize President Trump for suggesting that he will send National Guard troops into Chicago to crack down on crime. Trump has criticized Chicago's crime rate, but Pritzker says if Trump really wants to stop crime, he's looking in the wrong place. Like every major American city in both blue and red states, we deal with crime in Chicago. Indeed, the violent crime rate is worse in red states and red cities.

Here in Chicago, our civilian police force and elected leaders work every day to combat crime and to improve public safety. Earlier this month, Trump sent troops into Washington, D.C., that city's violent crime rate, has dropped 30% in recent years. In his first summit meeting with President Trump, South Korea's president said the two agreed to modernize their country's seven decades-old alliance. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Seoul. After the summit, South Korean President E. Jam Yong joked that he'd feared he'd end up like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who clashed with Trump in February. That didn't happen. He praised President Trump for making America great again and for his interior decorating job at the White House. He said South Korea would spend more money on defense and wants to get in on the renaissance of American manufacturing under the Trump administration. President Trump expressed support for E. He also said the U.S. wants to own the land.

under its military bases in South Korea. Trump told E he'd like to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un this year, although Kim says he's not interested. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul. Stocks closed down Monday on Wall Street. The Dow was down by 349 points. The NASDAQ closed down 47 points, while the S&P 500 was down by 27 points.

This is NPR News. SpaceX tried again Monday evening to launch its massive new Starship rocket on test flight number 10. But as NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports, the weather wouldn't cooperate. SpaceX had tried to send up the approximately 400-foot-tall two-stage rocket on Sunday night. But a line that fed oxygen into the rocket was leaking and had to be fixed. On their second opportunity to launch from the SpaceX facility in South Texas, they fueled up Starship and the count went all the way down to T-minus 40 seconds. This time, though, the trouble was anvil clouds.

These thunderstorm clouds were too close to the launch pad, so the attempt had to be canceled. SpaceX will keep trying. On this 10th flight, they're hoping to break a streak of mishaps this year. Three flights in a row with the upper stage lost instead of returning to Earth in a controlled way. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. President Trump has signed an executive order that directs the Justice Department to prosecute people for burning an American flag. The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning the flag is political expression that cannot be criminalized.

Trump has argued that burning the flag insights violence and should result in a one-year jail sentence. Vietnam evacuated hundreds of thousands of people Monday. As Typhoon Khadjiki came on shore, officials have also closed schools in airports. The typhoon has winds of up to 73 miles an hour when it made landfall. It intensified from a tropical depression to a powerful typhoon in less than two days. Scientists are warning that seas worn by climate change are creating faster and stronger storms. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe.

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