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The Nigerian government says its armed forces took part in a U.S.-led operation
that killed the second-in-command of ISIS.
NPR's Jewel Bright reports the Islamist militant was hiding in Africa.
A spokesperson for the Nigerian military say ISIS' global second-in-command,
Abu Bila al-Minuki, and several of his commanders were killed in a joint U.S.-Nigerian airstrike on his compound.
In northeast Nigeria, Al-Minuki was the most senior ISIS commander in West Africa and the Sahel,
and the State Department branded him a specially designated global terrorist in 2023.
The operation comes several months after U.S. Forces carried out airstrikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria,
following claims by the Trump administration of targeted attacks on Christians.
Since then, more than 200 U.S. Soldiers have been deployed to Nigeria to help train the local
military in the fight against his surgeons.
Drew Bright, NPR News Vegas.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Virginia's request to use a new congressional map that favored Democrats
in all but one of the state's congressional seats.
NPR's Nina Totenberg reports it was a key part of an effort by Democrats to counter a Republican wave
of redistricting set off by President Trump.
The new map was approved by Virginia voters in an April referendum, but the state Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote,
invalidated the referendum because the court said state legislators
had failed to follow the proper procedures under the state constitution.