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Tennessee has approved new congressional maps as part of President Trump's plan to create more Republican seats in Congress.

Mariana Bakiala of member station WPLN reports the effort drew widespread protests.

Hundreds chanted no Jim Crow 2.0 and shame, as lawmakers met today to approve new maps

splitting Memphis and its majority black voting block into three districts, one of which spans

nearly 300 miles. The old district was contained to the city of Memphis. Republican supporters of the move say it would give the state a chance to have all its nine house members be from the GOP.

To pass the new maps, the legislature first had to strike down a 50-year-old law that barred mid-decade redistricting.

The quick turnaround time could impact voters in the military and overseas.

For NPR news, I'm Mariana Bacayahu in Nashville. A man was sentenced to life in prison

without the possibility of parole today after pleading guilty to killing one person and injuring

others while they were demonstrating peacefully in Boulder, Colorado in support of Israeli hostages

in Gaza. Authorities say Mohammed Sabri Saliman through Molotov cocktails at demonstrators on a

pedestrian mall, Rahel Halpern, is one of the firebombing victims.

We have been surrounded by words that injured us, injured our identity, injured who we are, and created a space in which

somebody can imagine them throwing 18 hot, molot of cocktails, as was his intention, is the right

way to deal with whatever concerns he had.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to seek the death penalty in a separate federal case.

Big oil companies are reporting their earnings for the first quarter.

They haven't indicated they plan to boost production to fill the hole in the market

created by the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

NPR's Kamala Dominovsky reports. Exxon is sticking with its planned production growth. Chevron is keeping output flat in the Permian Basin in the U.S. And not chasing big expansion in Venezuela yet. Here's Chevron CEO, Mike Worth. We could hit the gas and begin to grow it again, but I don't know what the future looks like.

For right now, I think it's really steady as she goes.

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