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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Supreme Court is allowing Texas' recently redrawn map of congressional districts to go into effect. For now, it's the latest move in the gerrymandering fight sparked by President Trump to try to keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports, Texas appealed a lower court order that had blocked it.
What recent Supreme Court decision affects Texas' congressional districts?
That court found the map's challenges are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. It's because multiples have Republican lawmakers made public statements suggesting they passed it to eliminate existing districts where black and Latino voters together make up the majority. But in Texas's appeal to the Supreme Court, the state claims that lawmakers were not motivated by race and focused instead on drawing new districts that are more likely to elect Republicans. If the Supreme Court clears a way for Texas to use the contested map, Republicans may be able to pick up five more seats in the U.S. House. But time is running out to change the map for Texas' midterm election.
The state's candidate filing deadline is in about two weeks. Hansi Lawang, NPR News.
President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani set aside their differences and discussed their shared goals during an Oval Office meeting today. Trump says he expects to help Mamdani not hurt him.
We had a meeting today that actually surprised me. He wants to see no crime. He wants to see housing being built. He wants to see rents coming down, all things that I agree with. Now, we may disagree how we get there.
When it comes to their differences on immigration enforcement, Trump said they could work them out. The meeting came after Trump called Mamdani a communist lunatic. Mamdani has called Trump a fascist. But the sit-down offered Mamdani an opportunity to talk with the most powerful person in the world, And it gave Trump a high-profile chance to talk about affordability at a time when he's trying to show he's addressing the cost of living. A federal court is blocking the IRS from sharing data on millions of taxpayers with immigration officials. The Treasury Department says the data helps the government enforce immigration laws. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kohler-Catelli says the policy was arbitrary and violates a law that protects taxpayer confidentiality.
The Trump administration has published the technical specifications for a new crash test dummy design that's based on a female body. NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reports.
Women are more likely to be injured in a vehicle crash than men. And safety advocates have long argued one reason might be that required safety tests only use dummies based on the male body. The new design is meant to help. Chris O'Connor is the CEO of crash test dummy manufacturer Humanetics.
It was designed around what injuries a female would have, not just what a small male would have.
Humanetics and federal regulators have worked on the new design for over a decade, and there are still several more regulatory steps before the dummy will actually be required in tests. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News.
After a day of wild swings, major U.S. stock indexes closed up. This is NPR News from Washington. Israel's prime minister met with top security officials to assess an increase in Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces increasing U.S. pressure to halt the violence. Washington is hoping Israel can contain it to avoid jeopardizing the U.S.-brokered peace plan for Gaza. This weekend, artists across the country are participating in what they say is creative resistance to authoritarianism. NPR's Anastasia Tsilkis reports.
Fall of Freedom includes more than 600 events across the U.S., ranging from performances of Les Miserables in Portland, Maine, to a zine-making workshop in Homer, Alaska. Fall of Freedom is the brainchild of visual artist Dred Scott. He told NPR that right now, many artists and cultural institutions are feeling paralyzed by political pressures and
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