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Alabama is the latest Southern State rushing to change congressional maps in an effort
to consolidate Republican power.
“NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the redistricting frenzy comes in the wake of a Supreme”
Court ruling that removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines." The Republican Supermajority in the Alabama legislature approved a congressional map that federal courts threw out for discriminating against black voters, protesters erupted outside the state house. "I'm trying to solve this up and up, let's make some noise out of you!"
One woman was dragged from the House Gallery for disrupting debate, Alabama GOP House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter. "I mean, they're bushing these people in buses. I don't know. It's probably part of these people.
It's not in from Alabama. You know, and I did it intensely to try to get attention." Ledbetter rejects allegations that the legislation is about disenfranchising black voters. Debbie Elliott NPR News Montgomery.
“President Trump says plans were in place for a three-day ceasefire between Russia and”
Ukraine starting this weekend. It'll happen as Russia celebrates victory day celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports. Trump says in a social media post that the ceasefire will be Saturday, March 9th, through Monday, March 11th, and then it will include a swap of a thousand prisoners for
each country. Trump claims that he asked for the ceasefire, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed. He added that peace talks are continuing in the war. Zelensky previously proposed a truce.
Last year, ending the Russia Ukraine conflict was a central goal of the Trump administration's foreign policy. However, the administration this year has been occupied, first by deposing Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro, and now by the war, the U.S. and Israel are waging in Iran. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House.
19 Americans who are on board a Dutch cruise ship where some passengers became infected with the hot of Iris will be transported to the University of Nebraska Medical Center to be quarantined and evaluated. Dr. Angela, you it is the medical director of the hospital's bio-containment unit. We have a trained team of health care workers, including everything from our nursing team
to physician team, including infectious disease, specialist, as well as critical care physicians.
And we are ready.
“Should one of these individuals develop symptoms concerning for haunt of Iris?”
The University facility is the only federally funded quarantine unit of its kind in the United States, three people have already died from haunt of Iris on the ship, several others remain ill. It is a rare rodent born illness medical experts say they have the outbreak under control. This is NPR.
The planned weekend closure of an early 10-mile stretch of Atlantis, very busy eye 285, known as the Atlante perimeter has been postponed. Foundation officials made the decision just hours before the Friday night closure, along the busily traveled west side of the interstate because of the possibility of bad weather. And there is limited time to complete the project without causing more disruptions.
The crews need dry conditions to replace the concrete, add new soldiers or make other safety improvements. Francis escalated an investigation of Elon Musk, the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. His NPR John Routich reports the case hinges on a swath of allegations including child pornography
and the unlawful collection of data. French authorities began investigating Musk and X last year focusing on algorithm manipulation and potential interference in French politics. The probe was expanded earlier this year after a complaint accused X of spreading hateful racist and homophobic content, and now French prosecutors say they have opened a criminal
investigation. The Paris prosecutors office summoned X and X AI, as well as Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino threatening to issue warrants equivalent to indictments if they failed to appear for questioning. In February Musk called the investigation at that time a political attack, X did not
immediately respond to a request for a comment. John Routich and PR News. While street finished the week in positive territory, the Dalvan Azdack and the S&P were all up.
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
