Political GuyentistMissouri

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. House
Missouri’s eight U.S. House districts

The 2022 map

Left standing by Kavanaugh
6 Republican · 2 Democratic

The new HB 1 map

Required by Clark’s later, temporary order
7 Republican · 1 Democratic

Each 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.

Pappas stands holding papers beside seated election workers at a table decorated with red, white, and blue bunting.
Chris Pappas
Democratic Senate primary

About 1/5 of the vote counted

Not called at these counts.

Share of votes counted

Pappas62%
Manzur36%
Sununu walks outdoors in a dark suit and striped yellow tie, with several people and a stone building behind him.
John Sununu
Republican Senate primary

About 1/6 of the vote counted

Not called at these counts.

Share of votes counted

Sununu70%
Brown25%
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The complete storynbcnews.comtheguardian.comcbsnews.comPhotographs: NBC News · The Guardian

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.

Jazan on the Red Sea coast; Abha and Khamis Mushait to the north; Najran farther east, near Yemen.
City locations, not precise strike sites.
Jazan refinery

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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The complete storyfoxnews.combbc.co.uknpr.orgLocator: Natural Earth (public domain). City coordinates: Jazan, Abha, Khamis Mushait, Najran.

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, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, speaks into a microphone against a blurred background.

Mamdani says the city lied about safe air.

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170,000pages made public

Each tile represents 1,000 pages.

Lonnie Bunch gestures while speaking into a microphone from a clear lectern on a stage.
Lonnie Bunch

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.

38 yearsat the Smithsonian

The final 7 as secretary

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Ukraine diplomacy

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.

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