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The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic-back redistricting plan, the ruling
“helps advance the Republican Party's redistricting campaign to secure more U.S. House seats”
in this year's midterm elections. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Governor Billy has signed a new congressional map that divides a state's majority black district covering Memphis, giving Republicans in advantage. And now, Alabama lawmakers may hold a vote today on a plan to set new U.S. House primaries if the courts allow redistricting in the state.
The U.S. is still waiting for Iran's response to a proposal for ending the war as new clashes continue to test their formal ceasefire. Top House Democrat Congressman Adam Smith says Iran is showing no signs of meeting U.S. demands. When this war started, Iran was weak and negotiating over that nuclear program.
We've made no progress whatsoever. We have not degraded their nuclear program at all
doing the course of this war. The World Health Organization says a number of confirmed or suspected cases of the
“hat of virus linked to a Dutch flag cruise ship in the Atlantic remains unchanged at eight.”
Ari Danna reports health experts say the risks to the public remain low. Authorities are relying on a time-tested approach for limiting the transmission of the haunt of virus, contact tracing. It involves locating the close contacts of those at high risk of infection. Pre-the Malani is an infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan.
By identifying people who are at risk of infection, you try to get ahead when people don't have symptoms yet. With the goal of preventing the infection from continuing to propagate, precautions can be taken with high risk individuals, including quarantine, so they don't accidentally come into contact with even more people and spread the illness further.
Public health officials believe this approach will help keep the haunt of virus outbreak contained. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
“California, an epicenter of the housing crisis in the United States, will soon have one agency”
overseeing the programs intended to address affordability in housing. For member-saysian KQD, Auditi Bambulini reports. Right now, housing developers say they have to navigate the states nine different agencies overseeing some 40 programs. Sarah Carlinski is with UC Berkeley's Turner Center for Housing Innovation.
When she compared California's system to other states, she found that 80 percent of them
had a more consolidated system. "The successful states, they have really high capacity, well-trained staff who work very well together, and while achieving this in a fragmented system might be impossible, it's easier to do if there is some type of consolidation." The new state agency will include separate departments for homelessness, financing, and civil
rights. The governor's office recently reported the number of people living outside decreased by 9 percent last year. For NPR News, I'm Aditi Bambulini in San Francisco. "It's NPR News."
A major rescue operation is underway amid a volcanic eruption in eastern Indonesia. Nina Rowley says more than a dozen people have been evacuated so far. "A massive volcanic eruption has claimed the lives of at least three hikers on Indonesia's Mount Duconol in Halma, here at Island. The volcano erupted on Friday, blasting a thick pillar of ash and rock nearly 33,000 feet
into the sky. Among the dead are two Singaporean nationals and one Indonesian citizen. Authorities say as many as 20 hikers were trapped near the crater when the eruption began. While a climbing ban had been in place for weeks due to increased activity, officials note that the mountain lacks an official registration post, which allowed hikers to bypass warnings
and enter via unofficial paths to view the crater. For NPR News, I'm Nina Rowley in Jakarta. Players in the U.S. added 115,000 jobs in April, according to the Labor Department's latest report, saying higher than what economists had expected. It marks another solid month of employment growth after the U.S. economy added 185,000 jobs
in March, higher than the 178,000 initially reported. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. Every book in Instagram's parent company Meta is challenging Britain's media regulator off-com, Meta told London's High Court yesterday to post, "How fees and penalties entered the online safety actor calculated.
This is NPR News." This week, on Consider This, every day Americans are feeling it more, a wartime economy. Energy prices in March went up over 10%. Energy flows into everything else that we buy. The big picture on inflation, housing, and prices that aren't coming down.
That's on Consider This.
