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News Wrap: Virginia voters approve new congressional map that could help Democrats

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, Democrats are celebrating a win in Virginia, where voters approved a plan to redraw the state's congressional map in a way that could help them pick up four seats in the midterms, the Supreme Court found that an Army veteran who was injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan can sue the contractor who hired the attacker and Democratic Rep. David Scott of Georgia died. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines, national Democrats are celebrating a win in Virginia.

0:05.0

After voters there, narrowly approved a plan to redraw the state's congressional map in a way that could help them pick up four seats in this year's midterm elections.

0:13.0

Virginia is currently represented by six Democrats and five Republicans in the House, a near even split.

0:19.0

The new map drawn by Democrats would leave just one clearly Republican district.

0:24.2

House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, defended the new plan this morning as a counterpunch

0:28.9

to similar redistricting efforts in Republican-led states.

0:33.2

Donald Trump and Republicans launched this gerrymandering war.

0:38.8

And we've made clear as Democrats that we're going to finish it.

0:43.7

Republicans have challenged the map and the state's Supreme Court will ultimately weigh in on whether the redistricting plan is illegal.

0:50.7

The U.S. Supreme Court found that an army veteran who was injured by a suicide

0:55.4

bomb in Afghanistan 10 years ago can sue the government contractor that hired the attacker.

1:01.1

Former Army specialist Winston Hensley was wounded when an Afghan employee blew himself up

1:06.8

at Bagram Airfield in 2016, killing five people. Today's decision overturns a lower court ruling

1:13.1

that had blocked his lawsuit due to a federal government protection during wartime. In a rare

1:18.5

lineup, the court's liberal three justices, Kintanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena

1:24.3

Kagan joined conservative Clarence Thomas in the decision.

1:28.3

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks to send hundreds of Afghans who worked with

1:33.1

U.S. forces to the Democratic Republic of Congo rather than bring them to the U.S.

1:37.8

as promised. That's according to an advocacy group that says it's been briefed by U.S. officials.

1:43.2

These Afghans have been stuck for more than a year on a former U.S. Army base in Qatar

1:48.0

after their visa processing was effectively halted.

1:51.0

On a press call today, a retired U.S. Marine originally from Afghanistan called the idea

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