The U.S. Supreme Court late on May 11 cleared the way for Alabama to redraw its congressional election map to comply with the court’s landmark ruling limiting the use of race in redistricting.
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Here are today’s top stories: |
- The U.S. Supreme Court late on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to redraw its congressional election map, marking another win for the Republicans in the intensifying redistricting battle.
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The family of one of the victims killed in the Florida State University shooting last year has sued OpenAI, claiming the alleged gunman used ChatGPT to help him carry out the attack, attorneys for the family announced Monday.
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The House of Representatives is set to vote on a resolution urging President Donald Trump to make the freedom of political prisoners in China a priority in talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, including during this week’s summit in Beijing.
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The president said on Monday that he plans to raise the cases of media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai and pastor Ezra Jin during his upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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The Supreme Court in Washington on April 28, 2026. (Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) |
The U.S. Supreme Court late on May 11 cleared the way for Alabama to redraw its congressional election map to comply with the court’s landmark ruling limiting the use of race in redistricting. The court’s new decision took the form of a brief, unsigned order.
The Supreme Court vacated lower court rulings that required Alabama to use a congressional map that included two majority-black districts out of the state’s seven districts. The justices waived the usual waiting period and ordered that the new ruling take effect immediately.
Alabama and several other GOP-led states are currently in the process of an unusual mid-decade redistricting they hope will help Republicans retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November elections.
The high court ruled last month in Louisiana v. Callais that race may be only a minor factor in redistricting rationales, not the predominant, overriding reason for how congressional district lines are drawn. “For too long, unelected federal judges have had more say over Alabama’s elections than Alabama’s voters. That ended today,” Marshall said in a video posted on X.
“My job in this office was to put the legislature in the best possible legal position to draw a congressional map that favors Republicans, seven to zero,” he added. Election attorney J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, questioned whether Alabama may lawfully draw a map with no black-majority districts. There is “no way in my view Alabama could have zero without violating the Voting Rights Act,” he told The Epoch Times. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, which was joined by two justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Sotomayor noted that the majority’s new decision vacates a federal district court ruling that blocked Alabama’s 2023 redistricting plan and sent it back to that court for reconsideration in light of the high court’s new interpretation of the non-discrimination provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act.
“There is no reason to do so,” she said. (More)
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President Donald Trump waves after delivering remarks at a Rose Garden Club dinner for National Police Week in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on May 11, 2026. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) |
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President Donald Trump said he supports suspending the gasoline tax.
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Virginia Democrats asked the U.S. Supreme Court on May 11 to block a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the state’s voter-approved congressional map that gave Democrats a massive advantage.
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Cole Allen, the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, pleaded “not guilty” in federal court.
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A preservation group has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop President Donald Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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The White House released a list of nominees on Monday for various positions across the federal government, including former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton to take over as the Federal Emergency Management Agency lead—a position he was fired from a year ago.
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Recess is important for children of all ages, a major pediatrician organization said on May 11. Kids should not face a loss of recess for lagging academically or for poor behavior, the group said, and access to recess should be enshrined in state law. The American Academy of Pediatrics cited research showing that recess improves children’s health, including both physical and mental health.
- A researcher who co-authored papers that he and others said undercut claims that measles vaccination causes autism has been extradited to the United States on fraud charges 15 years after he was charged.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is bringing a delegation of business executives when he travels to China for a summit with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, White House officials confirmed on Monday. Leaders representing aerospace, agriculture, finance, tech, and other industries will sit in on bilateral discussions related to tariffs, trade deals, technology export regulations, and other issues regarding the two nations’ business dealings.
- The United States should take a stronger stance against China’s human rights violations and religious repression, according to Sam Brownback, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
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The mayor of Arcadia, California, has agreed to plead guilty to operating as an emissary to the Chinese Communist Party, the Justice Department announced on Monday, and, after being charged with secretly carrying out the directives of a foreign government, resigned from her position.
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A group of Chinese elementary school students traveled to Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok this month to participate in a military-themed children’s parade commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II. The event triggered a rare wave of online criticism inside China before related discussions were censored.
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Hong Kong has become a key hub in helping Iran evade international sanctions, according to a new report.
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Iranians walk past an anti-US and anti-Israel mural painted on a wall in the capital Tehran on May 10, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images) |
- President Donald Trump said that a weeks-long ceasefire with Iran is in jeopardy and suggested that more U.S. strikes could be coming as he rejected a proposal submitted by Tehran.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on May 10 that he hopes to wean Israel off U.S. military support within a decade.
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The Pentagon’s May 1 announcement that it would withdraw 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany fits a longer pattern of U.S. force repositioning, experts told The Epoch Times.
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Afghan children leave after attending a primary school in Khvajeh Atis village, Afghanistan, on May 11, 2026. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images) |
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"The Angel Is Opening Christ's Tomb," circa 1640, by Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp. (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) |
We are used to thinking in terms of completion. Seven days make a week; the seventh day, in the biblical account, is the day of rest. It is the point at which the work is done, the structure complete, the pattern fulfilled. Seven, therefore, has long stood as a symbol of wholeness and perfection. But what comes after perfection? This is where the number eight quietly enters the stage—and changes everything. If seven represents completion, then eight represents something far more mysterious: the moment when completion is not the end, but the beginning of something new. It is, so to speak, the first step beyond the finished circle. Where seven closes, eight opens.
This idea runs deeply through both myth and scripture. In Christian tradition, Christ rises on the first day of the week, which the early Church also came to understand symbolically as the “eighth day”—the day beyond the ordinary cycle of time, marking new creation.
It is not simply a continuation of the week, but a transformation of it. The resurrection is not a repetition; it is a renewal. Something entirely new has entered the world: a new creation, as it were.
We find a similar pattern in the story of the Flood. Noah and his family—eight souls in total—emerge from the ark into a cleansed creation. The old world has passed away; what stands before them is not merely a repaired version of what was, but the possibility of a different future. Once again, eight marks the crossing point between ending and beginning. (More)
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