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Did Republican efforts to redistrict the House turn into a dummymander? A state-by-state guide

Republicans undertook a historic effort to redraw several states’ Congressional districts mid-decade in an attempt to maintain control of the House. That effort was rebuffed on Tuesday night as the GOP was on track to lose all of the districts it tried to gerrymander.  There were several reasons that states undertook what had previously been a…

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Engineers perform delicate operation on explosives-packed World War II shipwreck, but bombs remain in place

Sheerness, England — A delicate operation aimed at preventing an 82-year-old U.S. shipwreck packed with tons of World War II explosives from unleashing a potentially catastrophic tidal wave on London has been completed. But while the most imminent danger has been addressed, the explosives remain inside the rusting wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery on…

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Ukraine’s military evacuates wounded soldier with aerial drone in apparent world-first

Ukraine’s military says it carried out a front-line medical evacuation by aerial drone — an apparent world-first for the drone-savvy nation — as Russia’s full-scale invasion nears the five-year mark.  The Ukrainian Ground Forces’ 92nd Assault Brigade said Monday that it had evacuated a wounded soldier from the front line using a heavy-lift aerial drone. …

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Swimmer killed in shark attack in front of horrified beachgoers in Australia: “I could see a pool of blood”

A man was killed by a shark as he swam off a Western Australian city beach Friday while beachgoers watched in horror. Boats and helicopters searched the ocean off Sorrento Beach in Perth’s northern suburbs after the late-morning attack, a police statement said. Police would not say whether potential remains had been found. But police…

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