The Daily Populous

Thursday April 30th, 2026 night edition

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested that Democratic-leaning states respond to Republican efforts to gerrymander their congressional maps by doing the same.

Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist congresswoman, made the comments after the Supreme Court significantly weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

“The Democratic caucus has tried to pass nonpartisan gerrymandering for ten years,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Independent.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced that Louisiana relied to heavily on race when it redrew its congressional map in 2024.

That essentially opens the door to Republican-leaning states to redraw their congressional maps to expand the number of Republicans without fear of violating the Voting Rights Act.

In addition to Texas and North Carolina, Republicans have attempted to redraw the congressional maps in states like Missouri, though a Trump-backed effort to do so in Indiana failed.

But Republican efforts have prompted them to support temporary gerrymandering in states that have nonpartisan redistricting boards. »

Ukraine accuses Steven Seagal of receiving weapons from illegal Russian trafficking network

Authored by kyivindependent.com

Ukrainian authorities said they have dismantled an illegal arms trafficking network that allegedly funneled weapons to pro-Russian public figures and politicians, including U.S. actor Steven Seagal and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The National Police of Ukraine said in an April 28 statement that the network sourced weapons from temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories and through illegal imports from Slovakia.

Some of the weapons were distributed as so-called "prizes" by Denis Pushilin, the head of the Russian-installed administration in occupied Donetsk Oblast. »

Jonathan Ross - the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good - moved state and resumed work, report says

Authored by independent.co.uk
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The ICE agent who fatally shot a Minnesota protester in January has been reassigned to a different state and allowed to continue working for the federal government, according to a new report.

The incident sparked widespread protests across the U.S. in major metropolitan cities, including Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

Just 17 days later, another protester – Alex Pretti – was also shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. »