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Texas is a signature away from having its newly drawn congressional maps in effect.

State lawmakers passed the bill early this morning.

The map gives Republicans an edge in five districts held by Democrats.

The Texas newsrooms, Blaise Ganey, has more.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signaled that he will sign the new maps into law.

It comes after President Trump called on the state to redistrict last month.

But state Democrats say the maps are illegal.

Senator Boris Miles of Houston says they racially gerrymandered in the ethnically diverse city of Houston,

where he said some communities have been bunched together

with others broken apart to dilute their voting power. He says he doesn't accept Republican

denials that race was not a factor. I want you to know I thoroughly disagree with you because

Senator District 18 is more than packed. Senator's new districts are nine was cracked. Texas new districts are likely to be

highlighted during a potential court challenge. For the Texas newsroom, I'm Blaise Ganey in Austin.

Delivering products from Europe to the U.S. is about to get a bit trickier. Many parcel companies

and national postal services in Europe are temporarily pausing business

shipments to the U.S. As Empires, Camilla Dominovsky reports, it's all because of a new

tariff-related rule. There's a longstanding exception, some call it a loophole, called the

de minimis rule. An imported package worth less than $800 can carry no tariff at all.

The Trump administration has already eliminated that rule for goods from China and Hong Kong,

and starting this coming Friday, it's going away for goods from all countries.

Deutsche Post in Germany, La Post in France, Correos in Spain, and other European postal services,

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