Court picks Alabama congressional map likely to mean Democratic gain

A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama congressional map that creates a second Black-majority district in the state and that will probably flip one House seat for Democrats in 2024. Keeping up with politics is easy with The 5-Minute Fix Newsletter, in your inbox weekdays. The new map is the end — for now — of a lengthy legal battle that pitted Alabama’s Republican-led legislature against Democrats and civil rights groups that argued that Republicans were illegally diluting the power of Black voters in the...