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Supreme Court says the state of Texas may use its redrawn congressional map.

The changes were approved by state lawmakers at the urging of President Trump to try to help Republicans retain control of the House in next year's congressional midterm elections.

Dan Katz with Texas Public Radio reports.

The Supreme Court's three liberal justices objected to the order.

Congressional lawmakers are expressing sharply different reactions following yesterday's classified briefing on a U.S.

military airstrike targeting a suspected drug boat off Venezuela in September.

NPR's Sam Greenglass says members of the House and Senate committees viewed a video of a second strike that killed two survivors of the initial attack.

At the briefing, lawmakers heard from Navy Admiral Frank Bradley, who ordered the strikes.

The FBI says the suspect, arrested in connection with pipe bombs placed outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., is a 30-year-old man from Virginia.

He's identified as Brian Cole of Woodbridge, not far from the nation's capital.

He's facing explosives charges.

The devices were placed outside the buildings the night before the January 6th attack at the Capitol nearly five years ago.

FBI and Justice Department officials say a new analysis of evidence and data already collected led them to the suspect.

Wall Street futures are mostly higher this morning.

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The latest numbers on employment in the U.S.

have some investors rethinking whether the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates at next week's policy meeting.

The Labor Department says new claims for jobless benefits dropped last week to their lowest level in more than three years.