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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Protests broke out in Portland, Oregon last night. Portland police say U.S.
Chapter 2: What happened during the protests in Portland, Oregon?
Border Patrol agents shot and wounded two people there. NPR's Ximena Bastille reports Portland police say both victims were hospitalized.
According to DHS, U.S. Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon when the shooting occurred. The agency said the passengers of the vehicle and target for the operation was suspected to be a Venezuelan immigrant in the U.S. illegally.
They also said the Border Patrol agent feared for his life and fired a, quote, defensive shot and the vehicle fled from the scene. In a statement, Police Chief Bob Day asked the community to, quote, remain calm as they work to earn more. The shooting took place a day after a woman was killed by an immigration and customs enforcement officer in Minnesota.
DHS also called that incident self-defense. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
The U.S. Supreme Court is due to deliver opinions this morning. It's not clear what decisions will be issued. An NPR analysis has found the United States may be headed toward the largest ever decline in representation by black members of Congress that would depend on a Supreme Court ruling.
NPR's Hansi Lo Wang explains that ruling in a redistricting case about the Voting Rights Act could come as soon as today.
Many legal experts are expecting a Supreme Court ruling that further weakens the Voting Rights Act. For decades, in places where voting is racially polarized, that landmark law has helped ensure that districts are drawn in a way that gives racial minority voters a chance of electing their preferred candidates.
NPR has found that if the Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act Section 2 provisions in redistricting, it could put at risk at least 15 U.S. House districts in the South currently represented by a black Democratic member of Congress. It's not clear how many of those districts Republican-led states would try to eliminate.
but the loss of a handful of those districts could fuel a record drop in the number of Black representatives in Congress. The current record of a loss of four Black-represented districts was set in 1877 at the end of Reconstruction. Anzila Wong, NPR News.
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