{"id":210237,"date":"2026-05-09T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-republicans-dominating-redistricting-fight-across-several-states-before-midterms-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:35:53","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-republicans-dominating-redistricting-fight-across-several-states-before-midterms-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-republicans-dominating-redistricting-fight-across-several-states-before-midterms-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Republicans dominating redistricting fight across several states before midterms – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

President and his party celebrate as Democrats vow to fight Virginia court ruling barring state from enacting new voter-approved congressional maps \u2013 key US politics stories from 8 May 2026 at a glance
Virginia<\/a>\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats<\/a> gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win before November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.
In a 4-3 decision, the court found that the state\u2019s general assembly did not follow the appropriate constitutional procedure in approving the map, which voters then passed<\/a> in a referendum last month.
The ruling is a setback for Democrats\u2019 efforts nationwide to counter gerrymanders<\/a> approved by Republican-led states that may oust Democratic House representatives and boost the odds that Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s allies retain their majority in Congress\u2019s lower chamber in the November midterm elections.
Texas<\/a>, North Carolina<\/a> and Missouri<\/a> have enacted new maps that could gerrymander<\/a> as many as seven Democrats out of their districts, while voters in Democratic-led California have approved<\/a> a new map that may cost the Republican party as many as five seats.
Republicans cheered the court\u2019s decision, with Trump calling it a \u201chuge win for the Republican Party, and America\u201d.
The decision in Virginia comes as Republican-led southern states scramble to redraw<\/a> their congressional maps following a US supreme court decision that weakened<\/a> the Voting Rights Act and allowed lawmakers to break up majority-Black districts, whose voters tend to favor Democrats.
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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio<\/a>, has said that Washington is expecting a response from Iran on Friday to its proposals for an interim deal to end the conflict in the Middle East, as Iran accused the US of breaching the increasingly fragile ceasefire announced last month.
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Exclusive:<\/strong> The claims Samuel Alito<\/a>, a supreme court<\/a> justice, made about voter turnout in Louisiana in a landmark Voting Rights Act case<\/a> were based on a misleading data analysis, a Guardian review has found.
In his opinion<\/a> gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last week, Alito said that Black voter turnout had exceeded white voter turnout in two of the five most recent presidential elections, both nationally and in Louisiana. Alito\u2019s claim was copied almost verbatim from a friend-of-the-court brief<\/a> filed by the justice department. It was a critical data point Alito used to make the argument that the kind of discrimination that once made the Voting Rights Act necessary no longer exists. But a review of turnout and racial data in Louisiana reveals that assertion relies on an unusual methodology.
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The US government has targeted thousands of parents like LT for deportation since Donald Trump<\/a> took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration<\/a> arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Pentagon on Friday released an initial group of previously secret files documenting reports of UFOs<\/a> \u2013 a move sought for decades by some.
\u201cThese files, hidden behind classifications, have long fueled justified speculation \u2013 and it\u2019s time the American people see it for themselves,\u201d Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, said in a statement<\/a> posted on X.
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The White House has branded Star Wars actor Mark Hamill \u201ca sick individual\u201d<\/a><\/strong> after an AI-generated image showing Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with the words \u201cIf Only\u201d as an overlay was posted to one of star\u2019s social media accounts.
US employers added 115,000 jobs in April<\/a><\/strong> and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3%, a surprisingly robust gain to the labor market <\/strong>as the US-Israel war with Iran continued to drive up economic uncertainty.
The recent outbreak of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship is a warning sign that reveals how cuts to US capacity have severely limited the ability of officials and scientists to track and understand pathogens like these<\/a><\/strong>, with troubling implications for rare outbreaks and for pandemic preparedness writ large.
General Motors (GM) agreed to pay $12.75m to resolve claims that it illegally sold hundreds of thousands of Californians\u2019 location and driving data<\/a><\/strong> to two data brokers, said the state\u2019s attorney general, Rob Bonta, on Friday.
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the terminations of hundreds of humanities grants last year by the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) were unconstitutional and involved \u201cblatant\u201d discrimination<\/a><\/strong>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on Thursday, 7 May 2026<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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President and his party celebrate as Democrats vow to fight Virginia court ruling barring state from enacting new voter-approved congressional maps \u2013 key US politics stories from 8 May 2026 at a glanceVirginia\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}