Illustration: (Anneke Paterson/Todd Wiseman/The Texas Tribune)
Texas lawmakers intentionally diluted the political clout of minority voters in drawing the state’s House districts, a panel of federal judges ruled Thursday.
Sunaina Dumala grieves near the body of her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in a racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at their residence in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled “get out of my country” at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin’s Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)
