July 24 0400 UTC Brief

In U.S. politics and public safety A federal court has allowed Tennessee’s new congressional map to stand, even though it breaks up the majority-Black Memphis district now held by Rep. Steve Cohen and spreads it across three districts reaching toward the Nashville suburbs. It is the kind of map-drawing that makes the phrase “representative government” work very hard. In Washington, a Senate committee delayed a vote on the Trump administration’s nominee to lead the CDC, Erica Schwartz, after it didn’t have enough members present to proceed. Also on the domestic front, Origin Energy customers have been warned that personal details were exposed in a data breach, raising the risk of more convincing phishing scams and fake documents. In the U.K. and Europe The mother of murdered hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte has written to Andy Burnham asking for a face-to-face meeting and answers after saying Keir Starmer never replied to her repeated pleas over two years. She also wants to discuss her proposed “Rhiannon’s Law,” which would add electronic tagging for illegal migrants in hotels or HMOs, plus health checks and faster vetting on arrival. In Italy, a man was jailed after building a fake Roman amphitheatre near Vicenza and charging tourists €40 to visit it. He claimed the site had ancient links, but investigators said it was built in the early 2000s from modern materials. History, it turns out, does occasionally require receipts.