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President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. would reimpose a blockade on Iranian shipping. The blockade will go into effect on Tuesday at 4 p.m. ET. Trump also said the U.S. would impose a 20% toll on cargo moving through the waterway while allowing ships from other countries to pass. The move follows renewed U.S. and Iranian strikes that have pushed last month’s ceasefire closer to collapse. The Strait carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil shipments.

• 🎧 The memorandum of understanding between Iran and the U.S. aimed to end hostilities and ensure the reopening of the Strait, a critical issue for Trump ahead of the midterms, NPR’s Jackie Northam tells Up First. Critics say the deal was too vague, leaving both sides with different interpretations that helped drive the latest fighting.

An immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Colombian immigrant yesterday in Maine. The incident marks the second deadly shooting involving ICE in a week and at least the ninth since President Trump’s immigration crackdown began. According to the Department of Homeland Security, agents were monitoring a location linked to a deportation order when someone drove away, leading to the shooting. Some Maine officials say the victim wasn’t the intended target. Federal and state law enforcement officials are investigating the shooting.

• 🎧 Many residents in Biddeford, where the shooting happened, were shocked that something like this would happen in their small town, says reporter Ari Snider of NPR’s network station Maine Public. The victim has been identified as a 26-year-old man, according to immigrant rights groups and Maine’s Independent Sen. Angus King. Community members told Snider that his name is Joan Sebastian Guerrero. He was married and had a young child. Immigrant rights groups say he was authorized to work in the U.S. The shooting happened in the morning, and by noon, hundreds of protesters marched through downtown, Snider says.

A dozen states have filed a lawsuit to stop Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The block could prevent the possibility of bringing together some of the largest movie studios, television newsrooms and other entertainment properties in the U.S. California Attorney General Rob Bonta says that the merger would result in “higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television.” Paramount says the lawsuit misreads the facts and antitrust law.

• 🎧 Bonta says that the merger would eliminate competition between five of the largest Hollywood studios. The Justice Department opted not to sue, as they believe the merger would be good for competition, especially against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon, says NPR’s David Folkenflik. Bonta says that’s why the states stepped in.

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