{"id":324,"date":"2026-05-07T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/07\/donald-trump-republicans-gop-electoral-map-redistricting-midterms-lula-executive-orders-latest-news-updates"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:19:58","slug":"575ed907381a16856fe1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is how we cement President Trump\u2019s agenda\u2019: Tennessee Republicans celebrate state\u2019s new congressional maps \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed.Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority districtSign up for the Breaking News US emailFollowing Marco Rubio\u2019s closed-door meeting with Pope Leo XIV, the state department said that the pair discussed the \u201csituation in the Middle East and topics of mutual interest in the Western Hemisphere\u201d, according to a readout from spokesperson Tommy Pigott.\u201cThe meeting underscored the strong relationship between the United States and the Holy See<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/07\/donald-trump-republicans-gop-electoral-map-redistricting-midterms-lula-executive-orders-latest-news-updates\">Read original at The Guardian US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog is now closed.Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority districtSign up for the Breaking News US emailFollowing Marco Rubio\u2019s closed-door meeting with P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}