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Last month Virginia voters approved a redistricting measure that could have gotten Democrats four more seats in Congress. Today, Virginia's Supreme Court has nullified the election. Jan Kaliel from member station VPM reports. The court's ruling stems from Virginia's long constitutional amendment process.
It requires the legislature to pass the text of an amendment, then stand for reelection, and then pass it again before voters approve it.
Virginia Democrats had to sprint to get it passed in the first step, and did so after early
voting had already begun. The Virginia Supreme Court said that, quote, "Ereparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum."
“It's a major defeat for national Democrats, who were counting on Virginia to blunt President”
Trump's redistricting push. State Democrats also spent lots of political capital on the effort. Speaker of the Virginia House of Delgitz, Don Scott, said they would respect the result of the referendum. Likewise, it's a win for Republicans.
State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougall said the ruling was constitutional and not partisan. For NPR News, I'm Jack Kaliel in Richmond. The U.S. military says it fired on and disabled to Iranian oil tankers after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates reported another
missile and drone attack today. The violence further undermines a month-old ceasefire, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. was acting defensively and insists the ceasefire is still in effect. The force would fire back at them and they were shooting at us. That's what I would expect to do.
Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. Iran says the U.S. strikes violate the truth. The Trump administration is awaiting Iran's response to the latest U.S. proposal aimed at ending the war. Triple A says the national average for a gallon of regular gas is around $4.55 in
California. It's $6.16. It's about 10 cents higher than Monday, even though oil prices have come down a bit this week. And here's Canola Dominozki reports.
Global crude oil futures have been highly volatile since the start of the war. They spike up on any news that signals a drawn-out conflict and fall down on any hint that a resolution may be nice.
“But traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, that crucial waterway for oil markets, has remained”
all but non-existent in recent days, the global oil market is facing a supply crisis that doesn't go away based on a social media post or a headline. Meanwhile, refinery outages in the Midwest pushed U.S. gasoline prices up even further. And warmer weather means the start of summer driving season when demand usually goes up. Camila Dominozki and PR news.
President Trump drove his motorcade across the reflecting pool in Washington, DC yesterday. His administration is painting the pool of color he calls American flag blue. Trump announced the project last month telling reporters at the time that he was inspired by a friend's complaint, while visiting from Germany, Trump said the project will cost nearly $2 million.
U.S. stocks rose to new records today, you're listening to NPR news from Washington. America's employers delivered a surprising 115,000 new jobs last month, despite an economic shock from the Iran War, hiring was better than the 65,000 that economists had expected though it decelerated from March. The tech company Cloud Fares, the latest in a string of firms to cut jobs because of artificial
intelligence. As NPR's a John Ruach reports, the company announced it's axing about 20% of its workforce. Cloud Flair runs services behind the scenes that aim to make a wide range of websites and apps more secure and faster. In a quarterly earnings call, it announced that it was cutting 1100 jobs.
CEO Matthew Prince says it's not a cost cutting exercise. Instead, he says the company is accelerating its evolution to, quote, an agentic AI-first operating model. That means using AI that can perform tasks autonomously. With the cuts, Cloud Flair joins a wave of tech companies that have announced layoffs
amid huge AI investments. Those include Coinbase, Amazon, and Meta. Cloud Flair says its usage of AI has left 600% in the last three months, with teams across the organization using more and more AI agents to do work. It says the layoffs don't make for an easy day, but that it's the right decision as
the company reimagines how it operates. John Ruach and PR News. The heart of a spiral galaxy has been captured in a new picture from NASA's web space telescope.
The image depicts the MSEA 77 galaxy 45 million light years away.
The galaxy's active nucleus is powered by supermassive black hole that's 8 million times
More massive than the sun.
The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has been photographing the cosmos
since in 2021.
“This week on the NPR Politics podcast, President Trump has never been more unpopular, and”
the midterms are now less than six months away.
So the intensity of opposition, that's waiting for a lot of these Republican candidates
“in a general election, is very, very high.”
The politics of a wartime economy this week on the NPR Politics podcast, listen on the
NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
