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AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m.Trump ponders whether to move forward with Iran deal but hasn't yet decided WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.President Donald Trump held a White House Situation Room meeting with his advisers on Friday but has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with a deal to extend the Iran ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Iran said the agreement has not been finalized.Ahead of the meeting, Trump said he was looking to make a “final determination.” A senior administration official later said the roughly two-hour meeting with national security aides had concluded without a decision.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Trump would only sign a deal that “satisfies his redlines” and curbs Iran’s nuclear ambitions.Trump confirmed the high-level talks the day after The Associated Press and other news outlets reported that U.S.and Iranian negotiators had come to terms on a tentative agreement.The deal would extend the fragile ceasefire by 60 days as new talks are held on Iran’s disputed nuclear program.Trump wrote on social media that “Iran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb.” He said the strait must be reopened for international navigation and all sea mines destroyed.Judge says Kennedy Center board broke law putting Trump's name on building, blocks closure WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations — the latest legal setback for Trump's efforts to leave his personal mark on the landscape of the nation's capital.Trump said in response that he’s backing away from his proposed renovation and returning control of the arts institution to Congress.“Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back, physically, financially, and artistically, I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND,’” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., ruled that the Kennedy Center board’s March 16 vote to close the facility was “ill-informed and seemingly preordained” with no regard for its legal obligations.The administration had announced the work would begin in July and last approximately two years, but Cooper's ruling halts those plans for now.“The trustees might have assessed the propriety of closure in a number of prudent ways.This was not one,” he wrote.Judge temporarily blocks payouts from Trump's $1.776 billion 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from proceeding with a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president's allies who believe they were victims of a weaponized government, halting its formation or any potential payouts for at least the next two weeks.District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, scheduled a June 12 hearing for arguments on whether to extend her order barring the government from moving forward with its “Anti-Weaponization Fund” while pending litigation challenges it.The administration created the fund to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.A Justice Department spokesperson said it's “extremely confident” that the fund is legally supported “by ample precedent,” including from settlements during the administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat."We will not allow the policy preferences of judges to interfere with our efforts to provide restitution to victims of lawfare,” the spokesperson said in a statement.The White House declined to comment on the judge’s ruling, referring questions to the Justice Department.The judge, who was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, gave the government another week to respond in writing to the plaintiffs' arguments in favor of freezing the fund's creation and operation, including any payments in or out of it.Bondi refuses to answer lawmakers' questions about Trump's involvement in Epstein files release WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Friday on President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files as she defended the Trump administration's actions before House lawmakers scrutinizing the process.Bondi, who spent roughly four hours on Capitol Hill for her closed-door interview, was again defiant when she was confronted by lawmakers about the Epstein investigation.In her opening statement, she stood behind the Department of Justice's handling of the case files and said that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, now the acting attorney general and Trump's former personal attorney, had overseen the process to publish them.“The bottom line is: justice and transparency in this matter have been delivered at the direction of President Trump and his administration,” she said, according to her opening statement.Bondi's transcribed interview presented lawmakers with an opportunity to question a Cabinet official who was central to the political firestorm over Epstein that at times has rattled Trump's Republican administration.She initially raised expectations for the full release of the Epstein case files, only to later backtrack.That reversal prompted Congress to step in and pass the law requiring the release.But Democratic lawmakers said that Bondi told them she would not speak about the president in the interview and, consulting with a lawyer from the Department of Justice, said that she could decline those questions because she agreed to appear before the committee voluntarily.Louisiana enacts new congressional districts in a bid to give the GOP another seat BATON ROUGE, La.(AP) — Louisiana enacted a new map of congressional districts Friday that is designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black House districts, both of which are represented by Democrats.Republican Gov.Jeff Landry signed the plan hours after it overwhelmingly passed the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature.Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S.Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s current map — with its two majority-Black districts — as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark 1965 federal Voting Rights Act.That decision intensified a national redistricting battle fueled by President Donald Trump’s efforts to protect Republicans’ slim U.S.House majority in the midterm elections.Louisiana is one of several Southern states now redrawing their maps to help Republicans.Louisiana Republicans had considered drawing a map giving the party a shot at winning all six of the state’s U.S.House seats.But that would have required adding more registered Democrats to Republican-held districts, potentially backfiring with GOP losses.The map approved Friday in a 28-10 state Senate vote along party lines reflected Republican arguments that a 5-1 map is safer for the GOP and better protects U.S.House Speaker Mike Johnson from facing a difficult reelection.Republicans currently hold four of Louisiana’s six congressional seats.Bus hits cars in Virginia, killing 5 people and injuring 34, state police say A bus crashed into vehicles slowing for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens, including the driver, authorities said.The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m.on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, near Quantico.All five of the people who died were in vehicles hit by the bus, and 44 people were taken to hospitals, including three in critical condition, police said.“The preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone,” state police said in a news