"Lie from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
President Trump and the GOP are notching another win in their campaign to prevail in
“this year's midterm elections, and whole control of the U.S. Congress.”
In Virginia, the State Supreme Court has struck down a voter-approved referendum that would have allowed Democrats to redraw the Commonwealth Congressional map. In a 4-3 ruling the court sided with Republicans who sued on grounds of state legislature made procedural errors in how it put the question of a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Today's ruling helps a GOP boost their chances for retaining U.S. congressional control
through their own redistricting efforts, largely across the U.S. south.
Tennessee is the first state to redraw its congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court
last week, week in protections against racial discrimination in redistricting under the voting rights act. WPLN's Mariana Bakayau says the governor has signed a new map into law. The biggest change is to the city of Memphis, a majority black district that up until last week had been protected under part of the Voting Rights Act.
Now the city will be split into three different congressional districts, and it means all
“nine of the state's U.S. House seats are more likely to go to Republicans, Mariana”
Bakayau reporting. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is challenging Britain's media regulator off com, Meta told London's High Court yesterday, it is opposed to how fees and penalties under the Online Safety Act are calculated. A murder trial in Oregon is raising questions about digital privacy.
The suspect wants tech giant Meta to hand over Instagram records. He says will prove that he is innocent. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Troy Brenelson reports the state Supreme Court, her documents in the case this week.
David A. Honor Bono is charged with second-degree murder in a suspected gang killing outside
Salem, Oregon. His attorney, Ryan Peck, is seeking Instagram messages between a witness and the teen he shot in kill, "There's no meaningful dispute that Meta has Instagram messages and records
“that go to the heart of a leader's theory of self-defense.”
If the state wanted to, it could get those records from Meta with relative ease." Meta's attorneys say users' data is protected by the Stored Communications Act. That law allows them to divulge records to government entities, but they say criminal defendants don't qualify. This says the social media records has also recently been at the center of cases in Washington,
D.C. and California.
For NPR News, I'm Troy Brenelson in Portland.
U.S. gas prices are down slightly, average price, $4.54, it's NPR. The labor department says U.S. employers added more jobs than expected last month, and PR's Scott Horsley reports the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. U.S. employers added 115,000 jobs in April, more than four casters predicted, but fewer than the month before.
Job gains for February and March were revised down by a total of 16,000 jobs. Job gains in April were concentrated in health care, retail, restaurants, and transportation. The federal government continued to cut jobs. That's NPR has Scott Horsley reporting. A global cyber attack on a study program used by universities and lower-level schools have
disrupted education programs for thousands of students. Bruce Conviser reports from New Jersey that the attack comes at a particularly bad time for university students. Professors and students depend on the management system known as Canvas for course notes, assignments and grades, among other things.
The attack could hardly come at a worse time for university students gearing up for final exams and finishing term papers. The program is used by more than 40% of universities across the country, including Rutgers University, the top state school here in New Jersey. The attack was carried out by hackers known as shiny hunters.
It is not immediately clear what the hackers want, but typically they hold the data and access to the program for ransom. Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Michigan are among the countless colleges across the country, hamstrung by the attack. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Conviser and Greenbrook and Jersey.
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