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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A day after California voters approved a ballot measure in response to Republican redistricting efforts in other states, the California Republican Party is suing this afternoon on exit stream to news conference in which Dylan Law Group partner Mike Columbo says the map enacted in Proposition 50 is designed to favor one race of voters over others and is unconstitutional. When drawing the Proposition 50 map, the chief consultant who drew the map has stated that the first thing that he did was to increase the power of Latino voters. Additionally, the state legislature has announced that the maps increase the power of Latino voters. The measure California voters backed could help Democrats flip as many as five congressional seats. It is part of an expanding redistricting race across the country for control of the U.S. House.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case that could end many of President Trump's tariffs. NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports the case is yet another opportunity for the High Court to determine how much power a president has. The case focused on the country-by-country tariffs that Trump imposed on goods from nearly the entire world this year. Trump authorized those tariffs using a 1977 law known as the International, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEPA, which gives a president broad powers during an emergency. The businesses and states bringing the case argued that IEPA does not explicitly give presidents the power to tariff just to regulate imports. They added that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to raise revenue. The administration argued,

however, that the phrase regulate imports includes the power to tariff. They also argued that a president has broad powers when it comes to foreign relations. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. President Trump is blaming the ongoing federal government shutdown as part of the reason Democrats scored big in off-year elections yesterday. NPR's Rachel Treasman reports, as of today, it's officially the longest in U.S. history. The previous shutdown record was 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019. This one has no end in sight.

Congress is locked in a stalemate over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, which Democrats want to extend. The majority GOP Senate has tried and failed 14 times to pass a bill that would fund the government. There have been 20 lapses in government funding since the creation of the modern budget process in the 1970s, but very few of them have led to shutdowns lasting more than a few days. Multi-week shutdowns have only happened more recently in 1996, 2013, 2018, and now 2025. Rachel Treesman, NPR News. is NPR. A national transportation safety board team is now investigating the UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday. Local authorities say at least nine people died and more than 12 people

were injured. The plane crashed as it was taking off for Honolulu from UPS World Port at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir had declared a state of emergency and mobilize a National Guard. A new study in JAMA lays out an action plan to curb gun violence in the United States. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports in the past 25 years more than 800,000 Americans have died due to firearm violence. More than 2 million have been injured.

The study is authored by 60 experts from medicine, public health, criminology, and other fields who gathered earlier this year to build a roadmap to reduce firearm-related injuries and deaths by 2040. In order to do that, used existing evidence for preventing gun violence. The proposed action plan include solutions like investing in communities that have disproportionate levels of gun violence to address the main drivers like inequities in education, housing, jobs. It also includes gun laws that don't threaten

people's right to own firearms, but reduce the chances that guns end up in the hands of high-risk individuals, like those already convicted for violent crimes. Cleaning and greening of urban environments and improving street lighting have also been shown to be effective at preventing firearm violence. Ritu Chateji, NPR News. The Dow has closed up 225 points. It's NPR.