A “major chemical explosion” was reported Tuesday morning at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company in Longview, the Longview Fire Department said.

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Flip-flops are still trending. Let’s talk about the health risks of “showing toe.”

EXCLUSIVE: Verve and Conway van Gelder Grant have signed English actor Luke Newton (Bridgerton) for representation in the U.S. and U.K., respectively. Newton is best known for his leading role as Colin Bridgerton in Netflix’s global hit series Bridgerton, where he stars opposite Nicola Coughlan, with production currently underway on the show’s fifth season. Prior to joining […]

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) slammed the Democratic Party’s strategy surrounding the conflict between Israel and Palestine, claiming they “need to face a hard truth.” “While Republicans’ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has failed, so has ours,” Van Hollen wrote Tuesday in an opinion piece published by The New York Times. “For decades, we have…

Alabama Republicans are heading back to the Supreme Court yet again after a three-judge panel that included two Trump appointees ruled against the state’s congressional redistricting effort ahead of the midterm elections.  

The panel rendered its latest ruling Tuesday in response to an order from the high court earlier this month, which directed the panel to reconsider its previous action against the state. The justices split 6-3 along party lines in ordering that second look in light of the court’s April ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, in which the justices split 6-3 along those same lines in making it harder to bring claims under the Voting Rights Act.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the Democratic appointees in dissent from the order for further review in the Alabama litigation. She argued there was “no reason” for it because the lower court had previously found not only a Voting Rights Act violation but a direct violation of the Constitution via intentional discrimination against Black voters.

“That constitutional finding of intentional discrimination is independent of, and unaffected by, any of the legal issues discussed in Callais,” Sotomayor wrote May 11. She added that sending the case back for further review “will cause only confusion as Alabamians begin to vote” in the state’s congressional primaries.

In its latest ruling Tuesday, the panel was mindful of the “very tight timeline” it was forced to rule on, noting it was 2 1/2 months ahead of Alabama’s scheduled special primaries and some five months before the general election. But the judges concluded that they “cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.” The panel rejected the state’s argument that Callais upended the intentional discrimination finding. In any event, the panel said, the Black voters in this case would likely separately satisfy the Supreme Court’s new Voting Rights Act test in Callais.

“We emphasize that because of the exceptional public importance of this matter, we carefully reviewed the extensive evidentiary record in these cases with fresh eyes in light of Callais,” the panel said. The three judges on the panel are Stanley Marcus, an appellate judge who was appointed to a district court by Ronald Reagan and then to the appellate court by Bill Clinton, as well as two district judges appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer.  

The state said in a court filing Tuesday that it’s appealing the panel’s preliminary injunction ruling to the Supreme Court.

When the high court’s Republican-appointed majority ordered further review of the Alabama map in light of Callais, it didn’t explain why or offer its view of how the separate intentional discrimination finding factors into the analysis. With the state heading back to the justices, that raises the questions of whether the majority will again provide emergency relief that would help Republicans this election season and how it will justify doing so, if it provides any explanation.

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A panel of federal judges blocked Alabama from using a GOP-drawn congressional map that would eliminate one of the state’s majority-Black districts. NBC News’ Gary Grumbach reports on how the case could soon be decided by the Supreme Court.

Trump endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Senate race.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ has set premiere dates for two of its popular Tyler Perry series from BET, including the fifth and final season of All the Queen’s Men on June 10th and the sixth season of Ruthless for June 30th. All the Queen’s Men will end with its upcoming fifth season. Season 5 will debut with […]

Southampton FC and Royal Antwerp announce the death of former academy player Victor Udoh at the age of 21.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a requirement that federal workers sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). The proposal, which the OPM filed with the Federal Register Tuesday and is scheduled to publish Wednesday, requests comment on a draft NDA “for use by Federal agencies for both new and existing employees.” The agency, which…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Mexican comedians Ricardo Pérez and José Luis Slobotzky and their podcast La Cotorrisa for representation in all areas. The agency will work closely with the duo to continue expanding their brand’s live business, including its upcoming 2027 U.S. tour, while helping to grow its broader podcast and entertainment footprint internationally. Ranked #15 among Spotify’s […]