Republican lawmakers pushed through a new congressional map a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s existing map diluted the power of Black voters.
A senior housing facility in Deer Park, Texas, was damaged, prompting the evacuation of its residents. Emergency and city workers were removing debris from roadways and attending to numerous calls.
Waste from coal plants is threatening the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which the biologist E.O. Wilson called “arguably the biologically richest place” in the nation.