Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.

The Treasury Department is placing a new round of sanctions on 10 people and companies

accused of helping Iran develop drones and ballistic missiles.

MPR's Jennifer Pack reports many are in China and Hong Kong.

The U.S. Treasury accuses one Chinese individual and seven companies from China and Hong Kong

of helping Iran to secure weapons and supplies for its drones and missiles.

This comes days before President Trump plans to meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping,

in Beijing.

The leaders have a lot to discuss, but the Iran war might overshadow the

meeting. China buys most of Iran's oil. The U.S. is trying to sever this economic lifeline for Iran.

It has also sanctioned small private refineries in China that purchase Iranian oil. But Beijing has

ordered its companies to disregard those U.S. sanctions. Jennifer Pack, NPR News, Shanghai.

Tennessee this week became the first southern state to adopt a new congressional map as a result of the Supreme Court decision limiting the use of race when redrawing districts.

That's drawn protests. And Virginia Supreme Court knocked down a plan over

a procedural error that could have given Democrats an edge. And Pierce-Donganya has more on what's at

stake for voters. People still vote to express their level of dissatisfaction or satisfaction

with elected officials. They'll vote their pocketbook,

gas prices, health care, an unpopular war, picked the issue. But if at the end of the day,

one party has been able to redraw maps in their favor, then that can act as a buffer on the

kind of disapproval we're seeing now in, say, that new NPR PBS Marispole, which puts the

presidents of disapproval at a record, record low number.

And peers Don Gagne reporting.

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