Crews from the Great Lakes Water Authority have been working to repair a massive water main that broke in Auburn Hills early Sunday morning. It could take days or weeks to fix.

Residents in Orion Township, Lake Orion and northern Auburn Hills are being asked to restrict their water usage after the 42-inch water main broke.

"Did you see the size of that pipe they have to replace, I mean who could predict a 42-inch pipe is going to break?" Lake Orion resident Hank Ferry said.

Ferry was among those picking up two gallons of water from a distribution site at Atwater Park in Lake Orion.

"I was down in Berkley overnight and coming back home, I figured I stop by and pick up a couple of gallons of water," Ferry said.

There is also a boil water advisory in place for residents and businesses in Rochester Hills and Oakland Township, who have also been asked to conserve water.

Rochester Hills resident Jonathan Mattia said he is making the best of the situation.

"We'll make it work, we'll have to go with relatives and stuff like that and try to make the best of a bad situation," Mattia said.

Orion Township Supervisor Chris Barnett said he is working to get more resources for residents, particularly the elderly population.

"Our most vulnerable population is the people who live in the assistant living and the nursing facilities, we started at 3 am this morning led by Fire Chief Brian Allen with moving those people out of our community," Barnett said. "Every single one of them will be moved out of our community."

Great Lakes Water Authority CEO Suzanne Coffey said the timeline for repairs remains uncertain until crews can fully assess the damage.

"It's up in the air until we get that piece of pipe out of the ground, when we see the whole pipe, we will know what we're dealing with and the extent of the damage and how many pieces of pipe needs to be replaced," Coffey said.

Coffey said there is no word yet on what caused the pipe to break.

"It is very challenging to tell, when we pull that pipe out, we will send it off to the lab, people take pieces of the pipe to do a forensic analysis to determine the manner of which it failed," Coffey said.

Lake Orion Police Chief Mark Amundson said distribution sites in the village will remain open as long as the water emergency continues.

"We're getting the water from the Great Lakes Water Authority which they come up with these water trucks and fill up the water and we distribute to the people," Amundson said.

Meijer and Kroger are donating semi-trucks of water to the distribution sites, according to Amundson.

Distribution sites are located at Atwater Park on Atwater street, Wildwood Amphitheater on Joslyn Court and the Auburn Hills Department of Public Works on Brown Road.

You can find more information on the Orion Township website.

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Iran has sent its response to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators and wants negotiations to focus on permanently ending the war, Irans state-run media said Sunday. Pakistan confirmed receiving it.

Iran seeks to end the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, and to ensure the security of shipping, its state TV said. Washingtons latest proposal addressed a deal to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and roll back Irans nuclear program, an issue that Tehran would rather discuss later.

The White House had no immediate comment about Irans reply but U.S. President Donald Trump on social media accused Tehran of playing games with the United States for nearly 50 years, adding: "They will be laughing no longer!"

Trump is giving diplomacy every chance we possibly can before going back to hostilities, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, told ABC earlier Sunday.

Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen or heard publicly since the war began, issued new and decisive directives for the continuation of operations and the powerful confrontation with the enemies while meeting with the head of the joint military command, the state broadcaster reported, with no details.

Drone attacks target Gulf Arab nations

The fragile ceasefire was tested when a drone ignited a small fire on a ship off Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait reported drones entering their airspace. The UAEs Defense Ministry said it shot down two drones and blamed Iran. No casualties were reported, and no one immediately claimed responsibility.

Qatar's Foreign Ministry called it a dangerous and unacceptable escalation that threatens the security and safety of maritime trade routes and vital supplies in the region." The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said the ship attack happened 23 nautical miles (43 kilometers) northeast of Doha. It gave no details about the ship's owner or origin.

Kuwait Defense Ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al Otaibi said forces responded to drones in accordance with established procedures but did not say where they came from.

Iran and armed allied groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon have used drones to carry out hundreds of strikes since the war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.

Iran says it's on full readiness to protect nuclear sites

Trump has reiterated threats to resume full-scale bombing if Iran does not accept an agreement to reopen the strait and roll back its nuclear program. Iran has largely blocked the strategic waterway that's key to the global flow of oil, natural gas and fertilizer since the war began, rattling world markets.

The U.S. in turn has blockaded Iranian ports and on Friday struck two Iranian oil tankers it said were trying to breach the blockade. Irans Revolutionary Guard navy says any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels would be met with a heavy assault on one of the U.S. bases in the region and enemy ships.

The American military said Sunday that it has turned back 61 commercial vessels and disabled four since the blockade began April 13.

Another sticking point in negotiations is Irans highly enriched uranium. The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran has more than 440 kilograms (970 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels.

In an interview with state media posted late Saturday, an Iranian military spokesperson said its forces were on full readiness to protect nuclear sites where uranium is stored.

We considered it possible that they might intend to steal it through infiltration operations or heli-borne operations, Brig. Gen. Akrami Nia told the IRNA news agency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an excerpt of an interview with CBS scheduled to air later Sunday said the war isn't over because the enriched uranium needs to be taken out of Iran. Trump has said to me, I want to go in there, and I think it can be done physically, he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Moscows proposal to take enriched uranium from Iran to help negotiate a settlement remains on the table.

The majority of Irans highly enriched uranium is likely at its Isfahan nuclear complex, the International Atomic Energy Agency director-general told The Associated Press last month. The facility was bombarded by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in the 12-day war last year and faced less intense attacks this year.

Pakistan oversaw face-to-face talks between the U.S. and Iran last month and continues to pursue mediation. In rare public comments, army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir said Islamabad remains committed to helping end the conflict. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke by phone with his Qatari counterpart.

Iran warns against French-British effort in the strait

Iran's deputy foreign minister warned against a planned French-British effort that aims to support maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz after hostilities are over.

The presence of French and British vessels, or those of any other country, for any possible cooperation with illegal U.S. actions in the Strait of Hormuz that violate international law will be met with a decisive and immediate response from the armed forces, Kazem Gharibabadi said on social media.

French President Emmanuel Macron responded by saying it won't be a military deployment but an international mission to secure shipping once conditions allow.

Several attacks against ships in the Persian Gulf have occurred over the past week, and a U.S. effort to guide ships through the strait was quickly paused.

South Korea announced initial findings from an investigation that said two unidentified airborne objects struck the South Korean-operated vessel HMM NAMU about one minute apart while it was anchored in the strait last week, causing an explosion and fire. A foreign ministry spokesperson said officials have yet to determine who was responsible.

Experts are raising conflict-of-interest and ethical concerns after President Donald Trump hosted a LIV Golf event at his Virginia property this weekend, renewing scrutiny over whether the Trump family is financially benefiting from his time in office while supporting a golf league backed by a government accused of human rights abuses.

For years, Trumps courses have served as both a refuge and a showcase for LIV, whose chief backer, Saudi Arabias government, has been accused of human rights violations. (The Saudi government announced last month that it will stop funding the league after the 2026 season.)

Critics have accused Saudi Arabia of using the golf league in part to divert attention from its human rights concerns, particularly following the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

It comes as the countrys Public Investment Fund has invested aggressively in sports more broadly, signing high-profile stars to increase the global prominence of its soccer league and leading a consortium to buy an English soccer team. Saudi Arabia also signed a 10-year deal with Formula 1 in 2021 to host annual races.

Those moves have led to widespread accusations of sportswashing a concept that involves nations using high-profile sporting events to project a favorable image of their country.

Saudi Arabia is a murderous, authoritarian, anti-democratic region, Kathleen Clark, a law professor in government ethics at Washington University in St. Louis, told CNN. (Trumps) willingness to do this is actually a really nice example about what his priorities are.

LIV and Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund did not respond to a request for comment.

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Trump, meanwhile, has largely shrugged off the Saudi governments alleged human rights abuses in his two terms. During a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House last year, the president angrily dismissed a question about Khashoggis murder, claiming the journalist was extremely controversial and insisting a reporter raised the subject to embarrass the crown prince.

Trump then went on to insist Prince bin Salman who the CIA assessed likely ordered the murder knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that. Saudi Arabian government officials have repeatedly denied these accusations and claim they had no knowledge on the journalists death. The Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement in 2021 saying the country completely rejects the negative, false and unacceptable assessment in the report pertaining to the Kingdoms leadership, and notes that the report contained inaccurate information and conclusions.

At the meeting, which had all the trappings of a state visit, Trump heaped praise on the crown prince, including for what he called his incredible record on human rights.

Tournaments raise conflict of interest questions

The president, an avid golfer, has spent the past two weekends attending professional tour events at courses he owns, including last weeks PGA Tour stop in Doral, Florida, and this weekends LIV event in Sterling, Virginia.

Several ethics experts who spoke to CNN say they are wary of Trump hosting these golf tournaments at his properties because there is little transparency around how much financial compensation his family is obtaining. The presidents assets are in a trust managed by his children, and Trump has said he wouldnt be involved in running his business during his time in office.

President Trumps assets are in a trust managed by his children, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement to CNN last year. There are no conflicts of interest.

One expert told CNN the potential conflicts go beyond golf tournaments.

This is just going to be the tip of the iceberg, Richard Painter, a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School, told CNN. And the message has been said all over the world that if you want to get along with the Trump administration, do business with the Trump family or with his golf courses or with his son.

The golf events arent the only issues raising questions over conflicts of interest in Trumps second term. Critics say he has brazenly blended his business interests with the presidency by having his administration accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, dining with wealthy investors in his cryptocurrency coin, selling a Trump-branded smartphone, promoting his Scotland golf properties, and more.

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On the crypto investors dinner, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last year it was absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.

Don Heider, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, called on Congress to check the president on these potential conflicts.

Where are the ethics of all the members of the Senate and the House? Why are they so afraid of political pressure they wont speak up and tell the truth consistently and hold this president accountable? he said.

The White House, the Trump Organization and the PGA did not respond to CNNs request for comment on the ethics experts concerns.

Trumps involvement in the sports world

The golf events, meanwhile, also serve as the latest example of a president who is more heavily engaged with the sports world than his recent predecessors.

His appearances at the Daytona 500, FIFA Club World Cup final, the US Open, the Ryder Cup, the College Football Playoff Championship and several UFC fights have made him a fixture at the highest-profile American sporting events a somewhat unusual phenomenon for a sitting president.

Trumps attendance at these events has at times prompted backlash. He was booed by some during halftime of a Washington Commanders-Detroit Lions NFL game as he was featured on the stadiums jumbotron swearing in members of the military. He also was on the receiving end of boos at the Club World Cup final as he presented medals to players on the field.

The president has also broken norms with his level of engagement with sports leaders and leagues on a number of issues. Earlier this year, he signed an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from competing with the annual Army-Navy matchup, calling the game one of the countrys most cherished sporting traditions. He also signed an executive order aimed at stemming costs associated with the onset of the name, imaged and likeness payment system in college sports.

Trump has also developed a friendship with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who last year awarded Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize after Trumps failed push to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, the questions from ethics experts will likely resurface this summer Trumps golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, will host a LIV event in early August.

CNNs Alayna Treene, Marshall Cohen and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

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A man has died after crashing a vehicle into a guard rail early Sunday morning, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office tells us.

We're told the crash happened around 2:30 a.m., on M-59 near Livernois Road.

Investigators say that the man, identified by police as 35-year-old Troy resident Cody Trebush, was driving at a high rate of speed and didn't properly navigate a curve, leaving the roadway and striking the guardrail.

Trebush, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say that excessive speed was a factor in the crash, but aren't sure if drugs or alcohol factored into the incident.

In a box office battle of the sequels, The Devil Wears Prada 2 had the slight edge over Mortal Kombat II in North American theaters this weekend. According to studio estimates Sunday, The Devil Wears Prada 2 earned a chart topping $43 million in its second weekend, while Mortal Kombat II took in $40 million in its first.

This weekend had wide variety of newcomers playing in wide release, including the family-friendly whodunnit The Sheep Detectives and a James Cameron co-directed Billie Eilish concert film.

But it was the holdover that triumphed. The Devil Wears Prada 2, which has grossed $433.2 million worldwide in its first 12 days in release, helped push The Walt Disney Studios over $2 billion globally for the year. Its also surpassed the total grosses of the first film, which earned $327 million globally in 2006, not accounting for inflation.

Paul Dergarabedian, the head of marketplace trends for Comscore, said Mother's Day might have helped Prada get the advantage over the newcomer and have such a modest 44% dip in weekend two.

The release date was perfect, Dergarabedian said. This may be the new blueprint for how to start a summer.

Mortal Kombat II provided some gendered counterprogramming in the second weekend of Hollywood's summer movie season. Warner Bros. opened the movie in 3,503 locations where it drew a heavily male audience. According to PostTrak, 75% of the ticket buyers were men. The Devil Wears Prada 2 had almost the exact opposite gender breakdown on its first weekend.

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The first movie in this series, Mortal Kombat, was released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in April 2021 as a part of Warner Bros. pandemic-era day-and-date strategy. Reviews have been mixed for the sequel, as was its B CinemaScore. It also earned $23 million from 78 markets internationally, adding up to a $63 million global debut.

Michael landed in third place in its third weekend with another $36.5 million over the weekend, down only 33% from last weekend. The Michael Jackson biopic has now earned $240.5 million in North America, surpassing the total domestic grosses of Bohemian Rhapsody, and $577.4 million globally.

Fourth place went to Amazon MGM Studios' The Sheep Detectives which brought in $15.9 million in its first weekend in 3,457 theaters. The quirky, all-ages murder mystery features a starry ensemble including Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and Nicholas Braun, as well as the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Regina Hall and Patrick Stewart as the sheep who try to figure out who murdered their shepherd. Audiences gave it an A- CinemaScore. The movie cost a reported $75 million to produce.

Rounding out the top five was Billie EilishHit Me Hard & Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) an immersive concert experience which Cameron shared co-directing credits on with Eilish. Paramount released the movie in 2,613 theaters, where it earned $7.5 million in North America and $12.6 million internationally. The movie was very well reviewed by critics (93% on Rotten Tomatoes) and audiences, who gave it an A CinemaScore.

Project Hail Mary, in its eighth weekend, and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, in its sixth weekend, are still going strong as well adding up to a weekend that is up significantly from the same weekend last year. Dergarabedian said the films that seem to be doing well and drawing new and repeat audiences week after week are the ones offering pure, escapist entertainment.

This is playing out very well for movie theaters right now, he said.

Top 10 movies by domestic box office

With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:

1. The Devil Wears Prada 2, $43 million.

2. Mortal Kombat II, $40 million.

3. Michael, $36.5 million.

4. The Sheep Detectives, $15.9 million.

5. Billie EilishHit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, $7.5 million.

6. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, $6.6 million.

7. Project Hail Mary,$6.1 million.

8. Hokum, $3.3 million.

9. Deep Water, $780,274.

10. Animal Farm, $663,624.

U.S. military intelligence-gathering flights are surging off the coast of Cuba, a CNN analysis of publicly available aviation data shows.

Since February 4, the U.S. Navy and Air Force have conducted at least 25 such flights using manned aircraft and drones, most of them near the countrys two biggest cities, Havana and Santiago de Cuba, and some coming within 40 miles of the coast, according to FlightRadar24.

Most of the flights were by P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, which are designed for surveillance and reconnaissance, while some were by an RC-135V Rivet Joint, which specializes in signals intelligence gathering. Several MQ-4C Triton high-altitude reconnaissance drones have also been used.

The flights are notable not only for their proximity to the coast, which puts them well within range of gathering intelligence, but for the suddenness of their appearance prior to February, such publicly visible flights were exceedingly rare in this area and for their timing.

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Trumps public utterances against Cuba hardened noticeably in the weeks just before the surge, with the U.S. president reposting on Truth Social a comment by Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen that Trump would visit a free Havana before leaving office. Just a few days after that post, Trump ordered an oil blockade of the island.

Fast forward to today and Trump is imposing an expanded sanctions regime on Cuba and insisting it represents a threat to U.S. national security. (Cuban officials meanwhile have dismissed the suggestion their communist-run government poses any danger to the U.S. They insist they are open to negotiations, though have also vowed to conduct an extended guerrilla war against U.S. forces if attacked.)

The Pentagon declined to comment on these findings; CNN has also reached out to the Cuban government.

A familiar playbook

Similar patterns, in which ramped-up rhetoric by the Trump administration coincided with an uptick in publicly visible surveillance flights, occurred in the lead-up to U.S. military operations in both Venezuela and Iran.

In the case of Venezuela, Trump announced on September 2 the first U.S. strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean, specifically alleging a connection to Venezuelas then-President Nicols Maduro, whom he accused of mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror.

Publicly visible surveillance flights began a week later off the coast of Venezuela, persisting with a gap in October and November into the days before U.S. special forces captured Maduro in his compound in Caracas.

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A similar trend unfolded in Iran, where a far more extensive collection of intelligence-gathering aircraft and unmanned drones overtly surveilled Irans southern coastline ahead of joint U.S. and Israeli strikes. The P-8A Poseidon, RC-135V Rivet Joint and MQ-4C Triton, which in recent weeks have all been spotted near Cuba, are among the planes active in the Iran conflict.

Since early 2025, dozens of these same U.S. surveillance aircraft have been active around the warzone in Ukraine and near geopolitical hotspots on the Korean Peninsula and along Russias western border. Bulk data aggregated by adsb.exposed shows flights in these and other regions operating consistently over many months.

However, the uptick in flights observed off the Cuban coast is new and deviates from where these aircraft have historically been deployed.

A public message?

All the flights described above were tracked using publicly available open-source flight tracking dashboards like Flightradar24 or ADS-B Exchange.

And in some cases, these flights have been shared widely across social media, whether on X, Discord, or other platforms.

That is despite the aircraft involved being capable should they so choose of masking their presence by turning off their location beacons, which raises the question of whether the U.So is deliberately signaling the presence of these aircraft to its adversaries.

Whether or not the signaling is explicitly intended by the U.S. military or administration, the message is likely to be unsettling, to say the least, for Cuban officials.

CNNs Natasha Bertrand and Patrick Oppman contributed to this report.

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In partnership with The ALS Association, downtown Detroit parks will shine red May 1016 in recognition of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) Awareness month.

A special kickoff event will take place from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 10, in Campus Martius Park. The event will allow families impacted by ALS to connect, learn about upcoming initiatives, and take part in a meaningful END ALS photo moment under the illuminated park lights.

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The first plane carrying passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship left Spains Canary Islands on Sunday for Madrid, where they will be taken to a military hospital.

Spanish nationals were the first to leave the MV Hondius, which remains anchored off Tenerife, the largest island in the Spanish archipelago off the coast of West Africa. The ship arrived hours earlier.

None of the more than 140 people on the Hondius has shown symptoms of the virus, Spains health ministry, the World Health Organization and cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions said.

Those disembarking and personnel working at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife were wearing protective gear during the evacuation process, including face masks, hazmat suits and respirators.

The entire operation is proceeding normally, Spanish Health Minister Mnica Garca said.

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Passengers and some crew members from more than 20 nationalities on board will be evacuated throughout Sunday into Monday.

After reaching Madrid, those evacuated on the first plane will be under quarantine, Spanish health authorities say. Only the 14 Spanish nationals on board will quarantine in the country.

Authorities have said the passengers and crew members disembarking will be checked for symptoms, have no contact with the local population and will only be taken off the ship once evacuation flights are ready to fly them to their destinations. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Spains health and interior ministers are supervising the operation in Tenerife.

Pope Leo XIV thanked the Canary Islands for allowing the arrival of the Hondius.

Hantavirus usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings and isnt easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

Three people have died since the outbreak, and five passengers who left the ship are infected with hantavirus, which can cause life-threatening illness.

Passengers and crew members disembarking are leaving behind their luggage, and are allowed to take only a small bag with essential items, a cellphone, a charger, and documentation.

Some crew, as well as the body of a passenger who died on board, will remain on the ship, which will sail on to Rotterdam, Netherlands, where it will undergo disinfection, Spanish authorities said.

The expected sailing time to Rotterdam is around five days, the cruise company said.

Evacuation and quarantine plans

The U.S., the United Kingdom and the Netherlands will send planes to evacuate their citizens. Americans on board will be quarantined at a medical center in Nebraska.

Twenty-nine people will be on board the Dutch charter flight, including Dutch nationals and people of other nationalities, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said.

Five French passengers will be repatriated Sunday, and will be hospitalized for 72 hours for monitoring, after which they will quarantine at home for 45 days, France's Foreign Ministry said.

U.K. passengers and crew will be hospitalized for observation once they are flown home, British authorities say.

Australia is sending a plane, expected to arrive on Monday, to evacuate its nationals and those from nearby countries such as New Zealand, Garca said. Its plane will be the last to leave Tenerife, she said.

Norway has sent an ambulance plane to Tenerife with personnel trained to transport patients with high-risk infections, its Directorate for Civil Protection told public broadcaster NRK.

The ambulance plane is owned by the European Union, but operated by Norway.

Countries monitor suspected cases

British Army medics have parachuted onto the remote South Atlantic territory of Tristan da Cunha, where one of the 221 residents has a suspected case of hantavirus.

The patient was a passenger on the MV Hondius and disembarked last month.

The U.K. defense ministry says a team of six paratroopers and two medical clinicians jumped Saturday from a Royal Air Force transport plane, which also dropped oxygen and medical equipment.

Tristan da Cunha is Britains most remote inhabited overseas territory, about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the nearest inhabited island, St. Helena. The group of volcanic islands has no airstrip and is usually accessible only by boat on a six-day voyage from Cape Town, South Africa.

Meanwhile, a Spanish woman in the southeastern province of Alicante suspected of being infected tested negative for hantavirus, Spanish health authorities said Saturday.

The woman was a passenger on the same flight as the Dutch woman who died in Johannesburg after traveling on the cruise ship.

The Great Lakes Water Authority says a leaky water main that crews had been working around the clock to fix has now experienced a break. It occurred around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in River Woods Park in Auburn Hills.

Crews are working to isolate the break so that they can begin making repairs. GLWA says once the break is isolated, residents in Orion Township, Lake Orion and Northern Auburn Hills will lose water completely in a matter of hours. The Authority is asking people living in those communities and the surrounding areas like Rochester Hills, which is now a boil water advisory, to limit water use to only essential needs.

The City of Auburn Hills has also declared a state of emergency due to the massive water main break. In addition, all residents and water users within the city, north of Cross Creek Parkway/University Drive are currently under a boil water advisory and should not drink the water until boiled.

GLWA says water trucks will be posted in the impacted communities as soon as possible for residents to get clean water. The Trucks will be located at:

The Wildwood Ampitheater in Orion Township

The Auburn Hills Department of Public Works

Atwater Park in the Village of Lake Orion

GLWA says these trucks will be available as long as the water outage continues. It also says that there is currently no time line on how long the water will be out in these communities, however it does say that residents and businesses should be prepared to be out of water for a minimum of at least two weeks.

Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides claiming to have suffered casualties in drone and artillery strikes over the past 24 hours. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia was neither observing the truce nor even particularly trying to, adding there had been no calm in front-line areas despite a lull in large-scale attacks and pledged that Ukraine would retaliate to any aggression shown by Moscow. Yesterday and today, Ukraine refrained from long-range retaliatory actions in response to the absence of large-scale Russian attacks, Zelenskyy said in evening statement, stressing Ukraine's increasing ability to hit targets far inside Russia. We will continue to respond in the same mirrorlike manner, and if the Russians decide to return to full-scale warfare, our response will be immediate and significant, he said. Ivan Fedorov, head of Ukraines southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, said one person was killed and three others wounded by Russian artillery and drone attacks in the last 24 hours. Another 16 people were also wounded in attacks across other regions of Ukraine, local officials said. Russia's defense ministry, meanwhile, accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing. The ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions on the front line. Russia's military had responded in kind to the ceasefire violations, the ministry said. Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraines Kherson region, the areas Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said. U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine had bowed to his request for a ceasefire running Saturday through Monday to mark Victory Day , the Russian celebration marking the defeat of Nazi Germany. Trump said there would also be an exchange of prisoners, declaring that the break in fighting could be the beginning of the end of the war. Zelenskyy, who had said Russian authorities fear drones may buzz over Red Square during the May 9 parade in Moscow, followed up on Trumps statement by mockingly declaring Red Square temporarily off-limits for Ukrainian strikes to allow the Russian parade to go ahead. The Kremlin shrugged off the comment as a silly joke. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sunday he expects U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner who have both taken a leading role in negotiations to end the war to visit Moscow soon enough. However, he stressed that Moscow would not move from its demand that Kyiv's troops withdraw from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Until (Ukraine) takes that step, we can hold several more rounds, dozens of rounds (of negotiations), but well be stuck in the same place, Ushakov was cited by the state news agency Tass as saying. Previous ceasefires, most recently at Orthodox Easter, have failed to produce any tangible results amid deep mistrust between Moscow and Kyiv more than four years after Russia launched its invasion of its neighbor. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the war have also largely stalled. ___ Follow APs coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

A leak in a massive 42-inch water main in Auburn Hills has prompted a state of emergency for Orion Township. Governor Whitmer has declared a State of Emergency in Oakland County because of this.

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Officials say the leak, discovered on Thursday, has gotten progressively worse over the last few days.

"It is essential that the residents of Orion Township, the Village of Lake Orion, Rochester Hills, and Auburn Hills restrict their water usage to only what is necessary for hydration, food preparation and basic sanitation for the duration of the emergency," the Great Lakes Water Authority said in a social media post.

We're told that all Lake Orion Community Schools will be closed Monday and Tuesday due to this leak. In addition to this, Avondale School District and Crown of Life Preschool, Rochester are closed Monday with building problems and classes at Oakland Comm College-Auburn Hills have been shifted to online. Also, Stellantis told us in a statement that "employees working at the Chrysler Technology Center, Lapeer Road Marshalling Center, Chrysler Office Building, Featherstone Road Engineering Center and other area facilities should work remotely on Monday, May 11" due to this water main break.

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If the main were to break, all of Orion Township would not have water for 2 days to potentially 2 weeks.

Great Lakes Water Authority crews are working around the clock at the site in Auburn Hills to prevent the break from happening.

Water trucks have been deployed in three locations for communities impacted by the break:

Atwater Park (426 Atwater Street) Wildwood Amphitheater (2700 Joslyn Court) Auburn Hills DPW (1500 Brown Road)

Orion Township Supervisor Chris Barnett said he doesn't want residents to panic because contingencies are in place.

"There's a lot of set up we're doing in preparation for the worst case scenario."

Barnett said the situation is stable but does want residents to stay alert and prepared.

"We've had lots of people asking us questions, should we stop using water now, no, use water as you normally would, don't use more."

Barnett added that the township declared a state of emergency as a precaution, but if a full break happens, it would help the township access critical county and state resources.

"We have everything lined up to provide them drinking water should that happen, but toilets won't flush. Businesses will be closed," Barnett said. "Our most vulnerable population will need to be moved from the nursing facilities that they're in now and assisted living facilities to communities that do have water."

Residents can sign up for alerts from CivicPlus by texting "ORION MI" to 38276 or visiting OrionTownship.org to stay informed.

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Metro Detroiters turned sweat into solidarity Saturday at CrossFit in the D.

More than 80 teams gathered at a downtown Detroit gym to row a million meters and raise money for a program that gives cancer survivors free access to CrossFit training across Southeast Michigan.

Hundreds of metro Detroiters converged at CrossFit in the D on Saturday, pushing through a million-meter rowing challenge to raise money for the CAPABLE Program an initiative that connects cancer survivors with free fitness training at gyms throughout the region.

More than 80 five-member teams took part in the 2nd annual Million Meter Row challenge, with participants ranging from first-time supporters to cancer survivors who have made CrossFit part of their recovery.

Ray Temple, a participant on team RO Cares, said the turnout exceeded expectations.

"We thought it was just going to be our gym, so to walk in and see so many people from other gyms, everyone supporting the cause, it's just awesome," Temple said.

The energy inside the gym reflected the weight of the cause. Participant Chase Zubari works in the hospice industry and said the event carried personal meaning.

"I work in the hospice industry myself. I deal with a lot of families that are battling cancer, helping them through those last days. Seeing so many people out here for a great cause with Karmanos, it's huge. One of my co-workers actually just passed from cancer last week, so this really means a lot to see so many people rally around for this," Zubari said.

Jordan Turek said a family member's diagnosis brought him to the event.

"My mom actually had skin cancer in her head, so it's definitely a sore subject for me, and it's definitely one of the reasons why I came to this event today," Turek said.

What is the CAPABLE Program?

Dr. Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer, principal investigator, epidemiologist, and CrossFit coach, said the CAPABLE Program introduces cancer survivors to the sport of CrossFit through 12 weeks of free training at 1 of 10 CrossFit gyms throughout Southeast Michigan.

"The CAPABLE program basically introduces cancer survivors to the sport across this. All these patients participate in 12 weeks of free training at one of 10 CrossFit gyms throughout Southeast Michigan. And 100% of the donations, there's no administrative fees. It goes right back to the patients in terms of purchasing equipment for the gym, boarding scholarships. If patients want to continue after the program and they love it," Beebe-Dimmer said.

Her message for anyone watching from the sidelines was simple.

"That fitness is medicine," Beebe-Dimmer said.

Participant Connor Berlin said the program's impact is visible inside the gym every day.

"I know so many that have joined the CAPABLE program here and graduated to just general CrossFit classes. Shout out to those people. They're amazing," Berlin said.

According to the CDC, only 47% of U.S. cancer survivors meet the recommended 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise per week, while 12% remain completely sedentary.

Survivors lead the way

Among those crossing the finish line Saturday was Fred Hardy, a 78-year-old, 3-time cancer survivor.

"You know, cancer sometimes it makes you want to slow down. But the thing is, you keep moving. And CAPABLE gives me that opportunity to keep moving. And I enjoy it. And fitness, my doctor told me my fitness helped me get through my camp. Wow," Hardy said.

Michael Dudley, a 71-year-old, 2-time cancer survivor, said a lifelong commitment to fitness played a key role in his recovery and said awareness is critical, particularly in the Black community.

"From the earliest days, I've always been a very active person. All the way through college, I ran track and field. And that was really one of the keys to my quick recovery," Dudley said.

"As African-American males, we really have to double down on awareness and early detection. We have to double down on our annual physicals, annual follow-up," Dudley said.

'Every single person knows somebody'

Julie Barnes Maurer, CAPABLE Project Coordinator, said the scene inside the gym captured the spirit of the event.

"You're seeing the big old beefcakes out here rowing as hard as they can. And you're seeing folks that have beat cancer and they're out here and they're just lifting each other up," Maurer said.

Participant Jake Wolok said the event sends a message beyond the gym.

"We're coming together for a great cause," Wolok said.

"And just remember, anybody can do this," Wolok said.

Jenny Fugaban, a participant on team RO Cares said the day was about more than the meters.

"Raising money for our cancer, but survivors that are out here working hard with us," Fugaban said.

Kelly Koehler, a participant on team RO Cares said the program deserves wider recognition.

"Honestly, I think about all the cancer survivors that come and work out here anyway, and it's really cool. It's a great program that CrossFit Detroit does, and I would highly recommend it," Koehler said.

Dave Finlay, CAPABLE Director and owner and head coach at CrossFit in the D, said the cause is one everyone can connect with.

"I think everybody should be able to donate at least a few dollars to a program like this because every single person knows somebody that's been affected by cancer. And we run a fantastic program that is well worth every donated dollar," Finlay said.

The CAPABLE Program runs year-round. For more information and to donate, visit https://www.teamcapable.org/

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Former MLB manager Bobby Cox, who guided the Atlanta Braves to a World Series title in 1995, has died at age 84, the team announced Saturday.

A cause of death was not released.

Coxs Braves won the franchises first title after the team relocated to Atlanta. His first stint with the Braves began in 1978, when he managed the club for four seasons.

His managerial career also included several seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he won the American League Manager of the Year award in 1985.

Cox left the Blue Jays after the 1985 season to become the Braves general manager. In 1990, he moved back into the dugout as Atlantas manager. Under Cox, the Braves won 14 consecutive division titles from 1991 through 2005, claiming four National League pennants during that stretch.

In his first season back as Braves manager in 1991, Cox earned Manager of the Year honors. He won the award again in 2004 and 2005.

Cox was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014.

His MLB playing career was brief he appeared at third base for the New York Yankees in 1968 and 1969.

The Braves released a statement mourning his passing:

We are overcome with emotion on the passing of Bobby Cox, our treasured skipper. Bobby was the best manager to ever wear a Braves uniform. He led our team to 14 straight division titles, five National League pennants, and the unforgettable World Series title in 1995. His Braves managerial legacy will never be matched.Bobby was a favorite among all in the baseball community, especially those who played for him. His wealth of knowledge on player development and the intricacies of managing the game were rewarded with the sports ultimate prize in 2014 enshrinement into the Baseball Hall of Fame.And while Bobbys passion for the game was unparalleled, his love of baseball was exceeded only by his love for his family. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we send our sincerest condolences to his beloved wife, Pam, and their loving children and grandchildren.

Google has settled with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022.

April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a pattern and practice of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claimed the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. Other former Google workers also joined the suit, which later received class action status.

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This case is about accountability, plain and simple, said civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented the plaintiffs, in a statement. For far too long, Black employees in the tech industry have faced barriers that limit opportunity. This settlement is a significant step toward holding one of the worlds most powerful companies accountable and making clear that discriminatory practices cannot and will not be tolerated.

The settlement was announced in May 2025 and granted final approval this week. Google said when the settlement was reached that it strongly disagrees with the allegations that it treated anyone improperly and remains "committed to paying, hiring, and leveling all employees consistently.

The lawsuit, echoed years of complaints from Black employees at the company. That includes prominent artificial intelligence scholar Timnit Gebru, who said she was pushed out in 2020 after a dispute over a research paper examining the societal dangers of an emerging branch of artificial intelligence.

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The 2022 lawsuit claimed that Mountain View, California-based Google viewed Black job candidates through harmful racial stereotypes and claimed that hiring managers deemed Black candidates not Googly enough, a plain dog whistle for race discrimination.

In addition, according to the suit, interviewers hazed and undermined Black candidates and hired Black candidates into lower-paying and lower-level roles with less advancement potential based on their race and racial stereotypes.

The settlement, which does not constitute admission of liability by Google, also includes a commitment to pay equity analyses, pay transparency measures, and limits on mandatory arbitration for employment-related disputes through at least August 2026, according to Crump.

Theres little debate that college graduates tend to earn more than those without a degree. Data has long shown that workers with at least a bachelors degree earn considerably more than even those with some college experience.

But some graduates have unrealistic expectations about what theyll make when they leave school.

A new report from Clever Real Estate found that new college graduates expect to earn about $24,000 more than is typical. Graduates surveyed said they expect to make roughly $80,000 at the start of their careers, when the average starting salary is $56,153.

Nearly 10 years after graduation, respondents said they expect to earn more than $144,000 annually. In reality, the typical graduate earns just over $95,000 at that point, according to the report.

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Students in almost every field surveyed overestimated their incomes. Communications and journalism majors came the closest, expecting to start at $64,000 only about $4,000 above the actual average of $60,000.

Future teachers had the largest gap between expectation and reality. They anticipated earning more than $75,000 right out of school, but starting salaries tend to be under $47,000.

While many survey participants understood that most new grads dont earn $80,000, 59% said they have a stronger work ethic and 51% said they are smarter than their peers.

Another factor: Many graduates say they are willing to work less if it means a better work-life balance.

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The good news is that for most, the $80,000 figure isnt unrealistic long-term. As of 2024, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the median annual wage for bachelors degree holders is more than $80,000. For workers with some college but no degree, the median falls to $53,000. College graduates also have a much lower unemployment rate than non-graduates.

However, experts note that the economy has shifted in recent months. Job openings have dropped considerably in the past four years from more than 12 million in 2022 to 6.9 million in 2024, according to the BLS.

No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors.

In the midst of a strange outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government's top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been missing in action, according to a number of experts.

We seem to have things under very good control," President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening.

But experts say the situation has not spiraled because, unlike COVID-19 or measles or the flu, hantavirus does not spread easily. It has been experts in other countries, not the United States, who have been dealing primarily with the outbreak in the past week.

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The CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. I've never seen that before.

The CDC's diminished role in this outbreak is an indicator the agency is no longer the force in international health or the protector of domestic health that it once was, some experts said.

The hantavirus outbreak is a sentinel event that speaks to how well the country is prepared for a disease threat. And right now, Im very sorry to say that we are not prepared, said Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, chief executive officer of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

How the outbreak unfolded

Early last month, a 70-year-old Dutch man developed a feverish illness on a cruise ship traveling from Argentina to Antarctica and some islands in the South Atlantic. He died less than a week later. More people became sick, including the man's wife and a German woman, who both died.

Hantavirus was first identified as a cause of sickness of one of the cases on May 2. The World Health Organization swung into action and by Monday was calling it an outbreak. About two dozen Americans were on the ship, including about seven who disembarked last month and 17 who remained on board.

It's WHO taking center stage

For decades, the CDC partnered with the WHO in such situations. The CDC acted as a mainstay of any international investigation, providing staff and expertise to help unravel any outbreak mystery, develop ways to control it and communicate to the public what they should know and how they should worry.

Such actions were a large reason why the CDC developed a reputation as the world's premier public health agency.

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But this time, the WHO has been center stage. It made the risk assessment that has told people the outbreak is not a pandemic threat.

I dont think this is a giant threat to the United States, said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of Brown Universitys Pandemic Center. But how this situation has played out just shows how empty and vapid the CDC is right now, she said.

Tumult until Trump

The current situation comes after 16 tumultuous months during which the Trump administration withdrew from the WHO, has restricted CDC scientists from talking to international counterparts at times and embarked on a plan to build its own international public health network through one-on-one agreements with individual countries.

The administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency's ship sanitation program.

As this was playing out, Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said he was working to restore the CDCs focus on infectious disease, invest in innovation, and rebuild trust through integrity and transparency.

Waiting to hear from the CDC

The CDC has not been completely silent on hantavirus.

The agency on Wednesday issued a short statement that said the risk to the American public is extremely low, and described the U.S. government as the worlds leader in global health security.

Said Nuzzo: Not only was that not helpful, it actually does damage because a core principle of public health communications is humility.

The CDC's acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, posted a message on social media that the agency was lending its expertise in coordinating with other federal agencies and international authorities. Arizona officials this week said they learned from the CDC that one of the Americans who left the ship a person with no symptoms and not considered contagious had already returned to the state. WHO officials said the CDC has been sharing technical information.

The CDC also is monitoring the health status and preparing medical support for all of the American passengers on the cruise, Bhattacharya wrote.

But federal health officials have mostly been tight-lipped, declining interview requests. Some details emerged not through public statements but through disclosures from anonymous sources, including news Friday that the CDC was sending a team to Spain's Canary Islands to meet the Americans onboard.

On Friday evening, health officials issued an updated statement, confirming the deployment of a team to the Canary Islands. They also said a second team will go to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska as part of a plan to evacuate American passengers from the ship to a quarantine center.

COVID-19 comparison

In interviews this week, some experts made a comparison with a 2020 incident involving the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship docked in Japan that became the setting of one of the first large COVID-19 outbreaks outside of China.

The CDC sent personnel to the port, helped evacuate American passengers, ran quarantines, shared genetic data on the virus, coordinated with the WHO and Japan, held public briefings and rapidly published reports that became the worlds reference data on cruise ship COVID transmission, said Dr. Tom Frieden, a former CDC director.

Some aspects of the international response to the Diamond Princess were criticized, and it did not halt the outbreak or stop COVID-19s spread across the world. But some experts say it was not for the CDC's lack of trying.

The CDC was right on top of it, very visible, very active in trying to manage and contain it, Gostin said, while the agency's work now is delayed and subdued.

Instead of working with nearly all of the world's nations through the WHO, the Trump administration has pursued bilateral health agreements with individual nations for information sharing, public health support, and what it describes as the introduction of innovative American technologies. Roughly 30 agreements are currently in place.

That's not sufficient, Gostin said. You can't possibly cover a global health crisis by doing one-on-one deals with countries here and there, he said.

The Million Meter Row is a high-energy, community-driven indoor rowing fundraiser that blends athleticism, teamwork and purpose to raise critical funds for CrossFit and Physical Activity: A Better Life Experience (CAPABLE). CAPABLE is a free, evidence-based exercise program and research initiative supporting cancer survivors.

The benefit is being held Saturday, May 9, at CrossFit In the D in Detroit. To learn more or to donate to CAPABLE, visit https://www.karmanos.org/karmanos/karmanos-events/capable-million-meter-row-52324

During its investor call Friday, Wendys unveiled a new restaurant design as part of its Future Fresh initiative.

Interim CEO Ken Cook said new international locations will feature a blue color scheme instead of the brands traditional red. The company has already implemented the design at 100 locations in the Philippines and plans to expand to other international markets.

Cook said the concept would help expand growth for the brand overseas.

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This bold, modern format enhances our visual identity through a blue color scheme and a digital-first layout that makes us stand out from the competition, Cook said. These actions support our globally great, locally loved strategy, driving continued expansion around the world.

Wendy's has already started introducing hints of blue inside restaurants, but has kept red as its primary brand color.

Cook did not indicate when the design might be introduced in U.S. markets.

In Fridays call, Cook also said the company is focusing on providing value to U.S. customers. Wendys plans to continue its Biggie Deals promotion, which offers meals at $4, $6, and $8 price points.

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This platform provides a foundation for us to compete on value by emphasizing the quality of our products, and we plan to introduce exciting innovation here later this year, he said.

Wendys reported a sharp drop in first-quarter profit compared with a year ago $22.7 million, down from $39.2 million in 2025. The company attributed the decrease to higher beef costs and lower customer traffic.

The remaking of the U.S. political map accelerated this week in courts and legislatures, all of it in this round expected to boost Republicans in their attempt to keep control of Congress in November's elections.

This week's major action came in Southern states, with a significant state court ruling in Virginia and continued fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month.

Here's a look at where things stand.

Virginia court undoes new map drawn to help Democrats

In a 4-3 decision Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court stuck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that was approved by voters in April.

The new map was intended to give Democrats an inside track for 10 of the state's 11 seats in the U.S. House a jump from the six they currently hold. The new lines were drawn as part of a push by both parties to redistrict for their advantage in time for the 2026 midterm elections.

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The court majority cited procedural reasons for rejecting the amendment to the state constitution that paved the way for new maps. To send a constitutional amendment to voters, lawmakers are supposed to approve the measure twice once before and once after a legislative election. The court found that they didn't comply because the initial approval came in October after early voting had begun for the general election.

The result is that the state's previous maps will remain in place for this year's elections.

Fallout from US Supreme Court ruling leads to quick redistricting

Multiple GOP-controlled Southern states pushed this week to redraw their congressional maps in the aftermath of an April 29 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a Louisiana congressional district drawn to have a Black majority of constituents.

The ruling was seen as a blow to a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires political maps to include districts where minority populations' preferred candidates can win elections.

Louisiana quickly suspended primaries scheduled for May 16 so lawmakers could create new districts. Voting rights activists there packed the statehouse to oppose proposals for new maps that could eliminate at least one of the two current majority-Black districts.

Republicans in Alabama enacted a law Friday that would ignore the results of its May 19 congressional primaries and instead hold a new election if a federal court agrees to lift an order for the state to have a second congressional district where a majority or near-majority of residents are Black. Republicans currently hold four of the state's six seats in the House and want to instead use a map that could allow them to win an additional seat.

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South Carolina's GOP-dominated legislature met Friday to discuss a proposal to create a new map that gives the party a shot at winning all seven of the state's House seats. But some worried that breaking up the one Democratic-controlled district could make some other districts vulnerable to Democratic election wins.

Tennessee enacted a law Thursday creating a new U.S. House map that carves up a majority-Black House district in Memphis, the only one now held by a Democrat. That would give Republicans a strong chance of winning all nine of the state's seats.

The balance of power could be tipping more to Republicans

Normally, House districts are reworked only after results from the once-a-decade U.S. Census are tallied.

This time it's different.

President Donald Trump urged Texas officials to draw new districts to help his chance of keeping Congress in GOP control after the 2026 midterm elections. Texas officials complied with a plan designed to bring them as many as five new seats.

Democratic-dominated California responded with a map intended to bring them five new states. Other states have followed. And in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, the pace has picked up, though it's been mostly in states where Republicans have nearly all the seats already and thus not much room for gains.

Without counting the pending possible map changes in Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina, the mid-decade redistricting has created 14 more House seats that Republicans believe they could win and six that could give Democrats an edge. Overall, that would mean a potential eight-seat advantage for the GOP ahead of a midterm election, when the president's party normally loses seats.

But as changes and court challenges play out along with voters having their say the results aren't certain.

Currently, Republicans have 217 seats in the House to Democrats' 212. There's one independent member. Five seats are vacant.