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Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

By MARK SHERMAN
May 15, 2026 5:45 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the clos...
Pentagon halts deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe, AP sources say

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, EMMA BURROWS, BEN FINLEY and CLAUDIA CIOBANU
May 15, 2026 4:59 pm - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by canceling deployments to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking forces already stationed ther...
Colorado's Democratic governor commutes ex-election clerk Tina Peters' sentence after Trump pressure

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
May 15, 2026 4:56 pm - DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest...
Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

By BILL BARROW and MATT BROWN
May 15, 2026 4:46 pm - ATLANTA — Same fight. New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white conservativ...
Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen ending campaign after redraw of his Memphis district

By STEPHEN GROVES and MATT BROWN
May 15, 2026 4:41 pm - WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced Friday that he is ending his bid for reelection, his career upended by the redistricting battles that are...
Iran's top diplomat says a lack of trust is impeding talks to end war with the US

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ADAM SCHRECK
May 15, 2026 2:10 pm - Iran ’s foreign minister said a lack of trust is the biggest obstacle in negotiations to end the war with the U.S., saying Friday that Tehran would be open to diplomatic help, particularly from China, to help ease tensions. Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon extended their ceasefire following talks in Washington, U.S. officials said.
Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion and say today's catastrophe is worse

By JULIA FRANKEL and WAFAA SHURAFA
May 15, 2026 12:09 pm - Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba. That's Arabic for “catastrophe,” referring to the mass expulsion and flight of some 750,000 Palestinians from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.
Kyiv mourns as death toll from Russian attack in the Ukrainian capital rises to 24

By SAMYA KULLAB, HANNA ARHIROVA and BARRY HATTON
May 15, 2026 8:02 am - The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war.
Supreme Court temporarily clears way for mail distribution of widely used abortion pill

By Justin Jouvenal and Praveena Somasundaram
May 14, 2026 6:16 pm - The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that patients can, for now, continue to access by mail the most commonly used abortion pill, handing anti-abortion advocates a defeat in their push to restrict medication abortion.
White House planned to start Triumphal Arch work under unrelated contract

By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
May 14, 2026 3:35 pm - The Trump administration planned to start work at the site of the president’s proposed Triumphal Arch by piggybacking on an existing, unrelated contract for engineering services at the White House grounds more than a mile away, emails obtained by The Washington Post show.

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