September 9 · Six stories · About 3 minutes
Missouri’s map fight comes down to one seat.
Kavanaugh left the old map standing. Hours later, a federal judge ordered the new one used. The difference: a Kansas City-area seat.
Missouri · U.S. HouseThe 2022 map
Left standing by KavanaughThe new HB 1 map
Required by Clark’s later, temporary orderEach block is one district. The maps favor these partisan splits; November’s results are still to come.
Seven minutes
before the cutoff.
Judge Stephen Clark’s order arrived at 4:58 p.m. on September 8. It lasts 14 days, to about September 22.
Ballot-change cutoff
Ballots must be finalized
The temporary order extends beyond that second deadline.
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Big leads.
Early counts.
New Hampshire’s Senate primaries will choose the candidates for Jeanne Shaheen’s open seat. These are the returns recorded in this issue.
About 1/5 of the vote counted
Not called at these counts.
Share of votes counted
About 1/6 of the vote counted
Not called at these counts.
Share of votes counted
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Four Saudi
cities hit.
Missiles and drones wounded 73 people, Fox News reported. The Saudi-led coalition blamed Houthi forces; no group had claimed the attack as of Tuesday.
The strikes briefly halted work at Aramco sites.
400,000 barrels a day
Normal processing volume. The report does not quantify production lost.
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New York opens its
9/11 air records.
The release settles a lawsuit by 9/11 Health Watch. It draws partly on 68 boxes discovered in a city office in 2025, after earlier requests had missed them.
Mamdani says the city lied about safe air.
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Each tile represents 1,000 pages.
Bunch will leave
the Smithsonian.
Its first Black leader will retire by year’s end. Interior threatened federal support on August 28; Bunch says his timing was personal, not political.
The final 7 as secretary
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An hourlong call.
Only the Kremlin’s account.
The Kremlin described Trump and Putin’s conversation. No U.S. readout had confirmed it.
After the Moscow–Kyiv talks
No date or terms announced for the next round.