The South Carolina Senate rejected a new congressional map that Republicans hoped would eliminate the state’s only Democratic seat, a Black-majority district represented for more than three decades by Rep. James Clyburn.

The vote against the new map was an unexpected rebuff of Trump, who had pushed for the redistricting effort in hopes of retaining his party’s slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Pope Leo XIV has issued a landmark encyclical warning that artificial intelligence threatens human dignity and truth itself. Meanwhile, across America, a massive bipartisan revolt is erupting against the spread of data centers powering the boom. It may be the most united Americans have been on anything in years, and their leaders aren’t listening.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-C.A. joins Morning Joe exactly one year after he was tackled, handcuffed and removed from a DHS press conference in Los Angeles to discuss the state of immigration enforcement today. He notes a shift in tactics from the administration and sounds the alarm on hazardous conditions inside detention facilities across the country.

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From having his name scrapped off the Kennedy Center to having a federal judge extend a court-ordered block for his so-called “anti-weaponization” fund, recent setbacks for Donald Trump have only served to highlight the extent to which the president’s personal interests have consumed the needs and priorities of Americans. Antonia Hylton, Ayman Mohyeldin and Elise Jordan break down the setbacks amid staggering inflation, as well as the upcoming U.F.C. fight planned at the White House on the same day as Trump’s birthday.

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Trump’s name is in the process of being removed from the front of the Kennedy Center after a federal appeals court rejected a last-minute bid from the administration to keep his name on the building. MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez and Vanity Fair Washington Correspondent Aidan McLaughlin join The Weekend to discuss.

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