The plaintiffs said the Republican-drawn unlawfully packed large numbers of Black voters into a single district and dispersed the rest into the five others in numbers too small to enable them to elect their preferred candidates.

However, illnesses can sometimes be more severe and even lead to hospitalization. People with other severe illnesses, weakened immune systems, children under 12 months old and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to serious side effects - or even death. 

Democrats and civil rights advocates seized on an Associated Press report that found roughly 23,000 mail ballots went uncounted during Texas´ March 2022 primary due to the state´s new voting requirements as they embarked on a narrower push for new federal voting protections.

"But if it's bad, the ATP need to make decisions to avoid that and to stop that because sometimes, even if it's very unlucky or unfortunate, going right in that moment that something negative will happen." (Reporting by Hritika Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Texas Republicans advanced new voting restrictions - known as Senate Bill 1 - including a ban on drive-thru voting, new liberties for poll watchers and additional ID requirements in August following months of protests by voting rights activists and Democratic state lawmakers.

Coronado is a corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

The election law overhaul eventually passed following two walkouts by Texas Democrats, who are a minority in both legislative chambers and used the last resort effort to block the bill by denying their GOP colleagues the attendance necessary to cast a vote.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Voting rights groups went before Congress on Wednesday and lashed out at Texas´ tougher new voting laws during a Thursday congressional hearing following tens of thousands of rejected mail ballots - an unusually high number - earlier this month in the nation´s first primary of 2022.

March 18 (Reuters) - Australian Nick Kyrgios apologised for losing his temper after his defeat at the hands of Rafa Nadal at Indian Wells and for smashing his racket into the ground, which then bounced and nearly struck a ball boy.

"Democrats and Republicans in Congress need to quickly come together and approve emergency global food aid in order to prevent tens of millions of people, including millions of children, from dying of starvation," Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, told Reuters.

LONDON (AP) - Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as the Oscar winner faces charges of sexually assaulting four men as long as two decades ago.

Nadal said last week that the sport needed to impose stiffer penalties to curb outbursts, after Alexander Zverev received one-year probation - but no immediate suspension - following an expletive-filled tantrum in Acapulco

"We´re seeing a generation of Republicans who are much more willing to test the boundaries of how much you can weaponize procedures," said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian and political scientist.

Congress passed $13 billion in aid for Ukraine on March 9, but the $2.65 billion earmarked in the package for food and other humanitarian aid does not go far enough to address food shortages globally, the Senators said.

"The situation looks dire for November and for the runoff election before that," said Hani Mirza, homeschooling adhd gifted legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project Voting Rights Program, who are listed as co-counsel in a lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 1.

Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers and party representatives largely ignored the thrown out ballots, instead turning their focus to Harris County, where state and county officials previously reported issues with 10,000 ballots misplaced but eventually counted.

March 22 (Reuters) - The United States must increase food aid to prevent millions of people starving as Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens global grain supplies, members of the U.S.

Senate's bipartisan hunger caucus said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans have held it over Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for months.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing it too. And President Joe Biden seemingly isn´t far behind.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The warnings have been sounded for more than a year: A recession is going to hit the United States. If not this quarter, then by next quarter. Or the quarter after that. Or maybe next year.

following the 2020 election. Most of the Texas ballot rejections happened because voters failed to comply with new ID requirements that took effect this year. While comparable historical data from primary elections is not available, experts say anything above 2% is usually cause for attention in a general election.