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A federal court blocked Alabama Republicans from using a congressional map that was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination”; the U.S. struck Iranian missile sites and boats it claimed were laying mines near the Strait of Hormuz, calling the attacks “self-defense”; the Trump administration proposed a governmentwide nondisclosure agreement for federal employees in an effort to crackdown on leaks; Trump declared...