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- Texas republicans fail again to vote on GOP redistricting plan, as democratic lawmakers hold out in other states;
- Federal judge orders officials to produce agreements showing what agencies and contractors have authority at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center;
- California to close expensive Norco prison, 4th state prison closed in last 4 years;
- Rwanda becomes 3rd African nation to accept deportees, following secretive agreements with South Sudan and Kingdom of Eswatini;
- UN says children in Gaza dying from hunger and “the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them”;
- 40 arrested at Gaza war protest Monday night at Trump International Hotel in NYC
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