This NPR News segment covers several urgent developments: Tennessee's controversial new congressional redistricting plan that critics liken to 'Jim Crow 2.0,' a widespread ransomware attack on the educational platform Canvas affecting 9,000 colleges, FEMA policy shifts under a Trump-appoi
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