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Chapter 1: What recent changes have been made to congressional maps in Tennessee?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Tennessee this week became the first southern state to adopt a new congressional map as the result of a Supreme Court decision. limiting the use of race when redrawing districts. Other states want to do the same. NPR's Don Gagne reports the changes will make it more challenging to vote.
It is confusing for voters, right? This is a midterm, so traditionally that means lower turnout and overall lower interest by voters because there's no presidential contest driving those things. But now you have voters who don't even know what district they live in because of these changes. They used to live in four, now they're in 11 or whatever, right?
Chapter 2: How is the hantavirus outbreak being managed for cruise ship passengers?
And the changes making it more confusing are being driven by a variety of things, ballot initiatives, court cases, state lawmakers. So it's hard to keep up.
NPR's Don Gagne. The cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak is expected to dock in the Canary Islands tomorrow, where the remaining passengers will disembark and return to their countries for monitoring. While experts stress the virus is not spreading like COVID-19, some public health experts warn the U.S., may not be fully prepared if cases grow. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports.
Public health experts say the hantavirus is not spreading in the same way COVID-19 does. Dr. Seema Yasmin is an epidemiologist and professor at Stanford University. Six years after the pandemic, she says Americans still have legitimate fears about new outbreaks.
Chapter 3: What impact does political division have on public health in the U.S.?
I'm not going to gaslight anyone into thinking that they are foolish for being scared because of the world we're living in, and especially the fact that the U.S. now does not have a seat at the table when it comes to global health. Yasmin says years of political division, misinformation, and declining trust in public health agencies have left the U.S.
vulnerable, even when the overall risk from the hantavirus remains low. Windsor Johnston, NPR News.
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have forced a Palestinian family to dig up the body of its deceased father from a grave just hours after he's buried. Ruth Sherlock has more.
The cemetery where the Assasa family has buried their dead for generations, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, now lies only some 300 meters from an Israeli settlement that was re-established there last year. Palestinians now have to obtain Israeli permits to bury their dead there. The Assasa family did this to later arrest their elderly father, Hussein, on Friday.
Chapter 4: What incident occurred involving a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank?
But only hours later, settlers forced the family to exhume Hussein's body, claiming the grave was too close to the settlement. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment, but told Israeli media that it had intervened after friction between Palestinians and Israeli civilians. and said the incident was under review.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Tel Aviv. It left passengers and crew scattered. It also left more than 90 planes at dozens of airports around the country. NPR's Joel Rose reports on what happens now.
Spirit doesn't actually own most of the planes it flew. The majority, more than 60 planes, nearly two-thirds of its active fleet, were leased. And the owners want those planes back.
Chapter 5: How is Spirit Airlines managing its fleet after going out of business?
Steve Giordano is the managing partner of the Nomadic Aviation Group. He says the first challenge for companies that are trying to repossess Spirit's planes is is just getting to them. Right now, they're parked at the gate or wherever they happen to be when Spirit went out of business.
Some are already probably in the pipeline to be leased again. Some are going to have the engines removed.
Some, nobody knows. Spirit is also looking to monetize anything it can. Planes, engines, gates, even coveted landing slots at congested airports. The biggest problem may be timing.
Chapter 6: What changes are happening in Hungary's political landscape?
Joel Rose, NPR News.
The new parliament in Hungary convened today. For the first time since 1990, it does not include former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. A center-right party gained power in a landslide election last month, ending Orban's 16-year rule. Peter Magyar was sworn in today as the new prime minister. He's promised to repair ties with the European Union and to end government corruption in Hungary.
I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.
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