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| SCOTUS revisits redistricting: A challenge to South Carolina’s congressional maps came before the Supreme Court this week. The NAACP argues that the Republican-held state legislature chopped up Charleston County in a way that targeted Black voters in order to achieve a safer Republican district – and the district court ruled in their favor. Now the Supreme Court justices are faced with a familiar question: Was this gerrymander about race, or partisanship, and how do you untangle the two when they are often so closely intertwined?
A House divided cannot work: Until the House can elect a new speaker, all legislative work has ground to a screeching halt. The chamber can’t move forward with President Biden’s requested aid to Israel, averting a government shutdown next month, or, well, anything else. Here are five pressing issues that are currently in limbo.
2024 check-in: Former Congressman Will Hurd, R-Tx., dropped out of the Republican presidential primary this week and threw his support behind former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Hurd was running as an outspoken Trump critic. But the former president maintains his hold on the base, and Hurd was vying for the alternate lane with fellow candidates Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, and sometimes even Mike Pence.
Older voters on Trump and Biden: In 2024, voters will likely face a choice between electing the country's oldest-ever president, and its second oldest. No one is better positioned to assess the impacts of age on the candidates than the voters who've lived it themselves: seniors around the same age as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. NPR interviewed more than a dozen of them, and some recurring themes emerged.
U.S. views on Israel vary by age and race: Two-thirds of Americans say the United States should publicly support Israel in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, but there are wide generational and racial divides on the question. One thing the vast majority of respondents agreed on? They’re worried the war will spill over into a wider regional conflict.
New charges for Santos: A U.S. attorney has added an additional 10 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, false statements, identity theft and other charges against Rep. George Santos. Santos’ fellow New York Republicans introduced a resolution to expel him from Congress this week, but with such a narrow majority, there likely won’t be much appetite within the conference for ejecting one of their own. Plus, the resolution can’t go anywhere until the House picks a speaker (see above). |
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Going Deeper: Israel and Gaza In Crisis |
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Hamas's brutal attacks against Israel last weekend were the deadliest the country has seen in decades. In retaliation, Israel has laid siege to the densely populated Gaza strip with hundreds of airstrikes.
It's the latest outbreak of violence in a conflict that spans a century. We can't possibly explain it all in one newsletter. But these stories can be a starting place, providing context for the current crisis and the history that led up to them. |
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In every newsletter, I try to bring a little dose of joy or excitement to The Shot to cut through the grind of the news cycle. This week has been really heavy, and it feels like we could use some joy more than ever.
Enter: Kelvin Kiptum, who set a world record at the Chicago Marathon last weekend and quite honestly tests the bounds of human athleticism. Kiptum, a 23-year-old from Kenya, crossed the finish line with a time of 2 hours and 35 seconds. Runner's World tells me that's an average pace of 4 minutes 36 seconds per mile. |
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