COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) — An effort to reshape South Carolina's congressional districts will get its first full airing Monday in the state House, as lawmakers launch a lengthy and potentially testy discussion on whether to accede to President Donald Trump's desires for a U. S. House map that could yield a clean sweep for Republicans. Tense debates already have played out in Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana as Republicans push aggressively to leverage a recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling that Act...

COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) — An effort to reshape South Carolina's congressional districts will get its first full airing Monday in the state House, as lawmakers launch a lengthy and potentially testy discussion on whether to accede to President Donald Trump's desires for a U. S. House map that could yield a clean sweep for Republicans. Tense debates already have played out in Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana as Republicans push aggressively to leverage a recent U. S. Supreme Court ruling that Act...

PARIS (AP) — France’s Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found that it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that would make it more transmissible or more dangerous. “The analyzed virus corresponds to the viruses already known and monitored in South America,” Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said Friday on X. “At this stage, no element...