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Decision guts section of Voting Rights Act
IN THE NEWS
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil rights law in a victory for Republicans.
The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative members, blocked an electoral map that gave Louisiana a second Black-majority U.S. congressional district. The decision could prompt Republican-led states to seek to redraw electoral maps to target U.S. House seats considered safely Democratic.
The court's liberal justices, civil rights leaders, Democratic lawmakers and some legal experts denounced the decision as severely undermining Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
DHS: The Republican-controlled House approved bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund Department of Homeland Security agencies and end a shutdown of nearly 11 weeks. President Donald Trump then signed it into law.
REDISTRICTING: Florida Republicans approved a new congressional map Wednesday aimed at flipping four Democratic-held U.S. House seats, a major boost to their party's chances of preserving a narrow majority in November's midterm elections.
NOMINEE: President Donald Trump said Thursday he nominated radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, author of "Make America Healthy Again: How Bad Behavior and Big Government Caused a Trillion Dollar Crisis," for U.S. surgeon general after withdrawing wellness influencer Casey Means.
BRITAIN'S KING CHARLES, QUEEN CAMILLA VISIT UNITED STATES
Britain's King Charles III arrives Tuesday for a state
dinner hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania
Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C. The monarch, visiting
the U.S. for four days with Queen Camilla, delivered a rare speech
to Congress that underscored the importance of unity and the need
to defend democratic values at a time of deep divisions between the
two longtime allies over the war with Iran. Trump stressed the
countries' friendship since their days as adversaries during
the War of Independence.
SUZANNE PLUNKETT, REUTERS
BIG NUMBER
$25 billion
The cost of the United States' war against Iran so far, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.
HE SAID ...
"After my term as chair ends on May 15, I will continue to serve as a governor for a period of time to be determined."
— Federal Reserve board Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday, after the central bank kept its interest rates steady and chairman nominee Kevin Warsh moved forward following the ending of a controversial federal investigation of Powell
THE WATER COOLER
JIMMY KIMMEL: After a joke prompted White House calls for ABC to fire late-night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ordered an early license review of the network's television stations Tuesday. Unlike the last battle over free speech, this time the FCC targeted Disney's track record of diversity and inclusion practices, the order said.
TAYLOR SWIFT: Pop superstar Taylor Swift recently filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an attempt to protect her voice and likeness from artificial intelligence deepfake videos and audio. A spokesperson for Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
OPENAI: Elon Musk testified Tuesday at a trial over OpenAI, casting his lawsuit as a defense of charitable giving. The world's richest person sued OpenAI, its co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, saying they betrayed him and the public by abandoning the ChatGPT maker's mission to be a benevolent steward of artificial intelligence and transformed the nonprofit into a profit-seeking juggernaut.
JAMES COMEY: The U.S. Justice Department brought criminal charges against James Comey a second time Tuesday, accusing the former FBI director of threatening President Donald Trump by posting a photo of seashells arranged in the numbers "86 47" on social media.
Man accused of trying to assassinate Trump
IN THE NEWS
WASHINGTON — A man was charged Monday with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner last weekend in Washington.
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., made his first appearance in Washington federal court two days after authorities said they foiled the attack. Court filings Wednesday raised questions about Trump administration officials' initial description of events during the incident.
The Justice Department asked a federal judge Monday to throw out a lawsuit that impeded Trump's plans for a White House ballroom, arguing the alleged assassination attempt showed the project is necessary. The National Trust for Historic Preservation said it would not drop its lawsuit.
INFLATION: U.S. economic growth regained speed in the first quarter but inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in nearly three years in March amid the Middle East war, the Commerce Department Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday.
OIL GROUPS: Longstanding member United Arab Emirates said Tuesday it quit OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a heavy blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia.
CONVICTION: A federal jury in Virginia convicted an Afghan man, Mohammad Sharifullah, of conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization Wednesday in the 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghan civilians. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
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