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Democrats are scrambling to respond to a Virginia Supreme Court decision on Friday, which struck down a new congressional map that would have given the party an advantage in the midterms.
The fallout of the decision is huge.
Even though Democrats are still expected to win the House, they now have to flip more seats in hostile territory.
In its fourth re-decision, the court said that Democrats had violated the state's constitution by drawing a new map meant to give the party 10 of the state's 11 House seats.
In a private call on Saturday, Democratic lawmakers discussed trying to restore the map with a move that would replace the entire state Supreme Court by lowering the age of retirement.
It was unclear how many Democrats would support such a drastic solution.
And passengers and crew from the cruise ship that was hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were evacuated on Sunday.
The ship anchored off the Canary Islands in Spain, where health officials checked the passengers' temperatures and symptoms.
The Spanish health minister said everyone on board was asymptomatic.
Today's episode was produced by Shannon Lin and Ricky Nowetzki.
It was edited by Lisa Chow and contains music by Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker, and Dan Powell.
Our theme music is by Wonderly.
This episode was engineered by Alyssa Moxley.
From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittroweth.