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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting.  How Much Is It Worth?  —  Where things stands in the race for House control after recent court rulings.  —  The redistricting wars heading into the November midterm elections had been in a stalemate, with each party's tit-for-tat gerrymanders roughly canceling each other out.
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New York Times:
10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence … Just two weeks ago, Democrats felt increasingly emboldened about taking control of the House in November after seeming to fight the redistricting wars to a draw.  —  But two court rulings — one by the Supreme Court and another …
Erin Cox / Washington Post:
This powerful Democrat's job is on the line over redistricting  —  Like the Indiana Republicans who lost their primaries this week, Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson defied his party leaders on redistricting and drew the most competitive challenger of his career.  —  Summary
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
How Minority Districts Fueled the G.O.P.'s Southern Ascendancy in Congress  —  The “majority-minority” House districts struck down by the Supreme Court last week sent a surge of Black and Hispanic lawmakers to Congress.  They also opened opportunities for the G.O.P.
Discussion: The Atlantic and OutsideTheBeltway
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go  —  Last month, Virginians voted to redistrict.  They would take the old congressional map, split roughly between Republicans and Democrats, and replace it with a map that left the Republican Party with a single safe seat, covering the southwest of the state.
Washington Post:
With GOP wins on election maps, Democrats have a steeper climb to victory  —  Democrats said a House majority is still within reach after losing a court challenge in Virginia.  —  Summary  —  Republicans are eight seats closer to keeping control of the House since President Donald Trump …
New York Times:
Two Court Decisions Have Unleashed an Era of Perpetual Redistricting
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Allow it to Use New Voting Map
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Republicans Don't Need to Win Elections Anymore. They Just Need Their Judges.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
The Virginia Ruling Was a Gut Punch. Democrats Can Still Win the House
Melody Schreiber / The Guardian:
Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare  —  The US's withdrawal from the WHO - and cuts to the country's health system - stymie officials' response  —  The outbreak of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius illuminates major gaps …
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
Experts wonder ‘Where is the CDC?’ as a hantavirus outbreak unfolds on a cruise ship
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOJ sees fallout after push to prosecute former FBI director James Comey  —  Several prosecutors have left the Justice Department, others are considering doing so, and at least one major case has been disrupted.  —  Summary  —  More than a half-dozen prosecutors have been demoted or pushed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Quinn Yeargain / The Downballot:
How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court  —  Virginia Democrats are looking for a way to overturn the state Supreme Court's Friday decision invalidating the constitutional amendment temporarily adopting new congressional districts that a majority of voters ratified last month.
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Disrupting Iran's Overseas Military Procurement Networks  —  Today, the Trump Administration is imposing sanctions on 11 entities and three individuals based in Iran, China, Belarus, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) involved in Iran's efforts to acquire or use arms and related materiel.
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Paul Sonne / New York Times:
Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds  —  The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.  —  About 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine through the end of 2025 …
Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner:
Trump throws his base a UFO bone, but critics say it's Iran ‘smoke and mirrors’  —  President Donald Trump's release of declassified UFO files on Friday drew excitement from longtime transparency advocates — and immediate skepticism from critics on both the Left and Right who argued the timing …
Streamline Feed:
Russia and China Dominate African Airwaves Following the Shutdown of Voice of America  —  The abrupt closure of Voice of America by the Trump administration has allowed Russian and Chinese state media to dominate African news.  The stakes are immense.  —  Get Context
Discussion: Grabien
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump's ruthless midterm power play  —  President Trump is flexing his dominance over the Republican Party to stamp out primaries that would bleed party coffers and fracture the GOP ahead of a treacherous midterm election. … - He endorsed 95 percent of the 217-member House GOP Conference …
Discussion: Our Revolution
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Ballroom Suddenly Faces GOP Opposition in Surprise Blow to MAGA  —  After a gunman allegedly attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month, Senator John Fetterman seized on the moment to accuse his fellow Democrats of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The Guardian:
Péter Magyar sworn in as Hungary's prime minister to end 16-year Orbán era  —  Jubilation in Budapest as Péter Magyar becomes leader and invites people to ‘step through gate of regime change’  —  The pro-European centre-right leader Péter Magyar has been sworn …
New York Times:
Frontier Jet Hits Person on Runway During Takeoff at Denver Airport  —  The plane reported an engine fire and aborted its takeoff.  The people on board were safely evacuated.  —  A Frontier Airlines plane struck and killed a person on the runway as it was taking off from Denver International Airport late Friday, authorities said.
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
How China's Leader Lost Faith in His Generals  —  Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States.  But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them.  —  The purge China's leader, Xi Jinping …
Astead Herndon / Vox:
The progressive plan to reclaim the working class  —  For years, one of the bedrock adages of electoral politics was “it's the economy, stupid.”  The quip, coined by former Bill Clinton strategist James Carville, warned party leaders that economic concerns will always outrank other issues in the mind of voters
 
 
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Matt Viser / The Atlantic:
Is Marco Rubio the Happiest Cabinet Member?
Discussion: Semafor and Politico
Rebecca Carballo / Politico:
Education Department launches hiring spree in key office, roughly a year after mass layoffs
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
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Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Facing Pressure, Trump Officials Reject Claims They're Softening on Immigration
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
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Sophie Brams / The Hill:
Justice Department moves to strip 12 Americans of their citizenship
Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
In legal dispute over ‘The View,’ ABC argues Trump administration is trying to chill free speech
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
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