Completely unknown golfer Yurav Premlall comes out of nowhere to win DP World Tour event by 14 shots


A week ago, DP World Tour golfer Yurav Premlall missed the cut in the Turkish Airlines Open by nine shots. Fast-forward to this Sunday, and his performance looks very different as the South African stunned the golf world with a 14-shot win at the Catalunya Championship.

Golf is a fickle game, but the performance the 22-year-old put together in Spain for his maiden victory on the European circuit is stunning on every level imaginable. We’re talking about a player who began the week without a top-30 finish in eight starts this season turning around and finishing just one off the all-time biggest margin of victory set by Tiger Woods at the 2000 U.S. Open.

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Yurav Premlall of South Africa celebrates victory on the 18th green on day four of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship 2026 at Real Club de Golf el Prat on May 10, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Luke Walker/Getty Images) (Luke Walker/Getty Images)

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Premlall, who entered the event ranked No. 598 in the Official World Golf Ranking, began the week with a 2-under round of 70 on Thursday. More than respectable given he had missed four out of eight cuts this season, but it still left him six shots back with 54 holes to play.

Then came Friday, when it appears Premlall woke up a completely new man.

He carded a second round score of 64, which he then followed with a 63 on Saturday to enter Sunday’s final round five shots clear of the chasing pack.

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Yurav Premlall of South Africa celebrates victory with the trophy on the 18th green on day four of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship 2026 at Real Club de Golf el Prat on May 10, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

Any player, especially one who has yet to find the winner’s circle, would sign up for a five-shot cushion with 18 holes to play. Still, it’s also a unique spot that most players have never experienced at the professional level. So while many would have expected Premlall to take at least a half-step back and make things somewhat interesting on Sunday, that simply did not happen.

The South African made birdie on six of his opening nine holes, picked up another four birdies down the stretch, and managed to post his second consecutive round of 63 to secure the insanely impressive 14-shot victory at 28-under par.

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“No words,” Premlall said after securing victory. “I’ve worked so hard to get into this position and it’s so rewarding to finally see the results of it. I mean, the last eight, nine months have been such a struggle just to build myself onto a platform where I know I could give myself a chance to win and to end up obviously in this position. I’m just so grateful so it’s a dream come true.”

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Yurav Premlall of South Africa walks onto the 18th green on day four of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship 2026 at Real Club de Golf el Prat on May 10, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)

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With his back-to-back rounds of 9-under across the weekend, Premlall could have theoretically skipped the first two rounds of the tournament and still won by four shots.

Fellow South African Shaun Norris finished in solo second.



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The Tories are still on life support – so why is Badenoch in celebratory mood? | Conservatives

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By any sane person’s reckoning, the Conservative party had a night to forget in Thursday’s local, mayoral and devolved elections. It lost about 500 councillors in England and ceded control of three local authorities to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – losing to the rightwing upstarts in England, Wales and Scotland. Why, then, is Kemi Badenoch hailing these results as proof that “the Conservatives are coming back” – and why do many Tory MPs appear to agree with her?

The Conservative leader was vocal on Friday about the eye-catching gains her party made in politically atypical London, where the Tories won back the totemic council of Westminster, took the most seats in Wandsworth council and saw off the threat from Reform in Bexley and Bromley.

But it was hard to ignore the damage in her own back yard of Essex, where Badenoch and five other shadow cabinet ministers are MPs. Reform ended the party’s 25-year reign at the local authority, as well as taking the Tory-held Newcastle-under-Lyme and Suffolk, as well as making inroads in East and West Sussex.

In parts of southern England, including Surrey, the party suffered losses at the hands of the Liberal Democrats. In Wales it took just 11% of votes, its lowest ever vote share in the Senedd. In Scotland its vote share dropped by 10.1 percentage points, compared with the -2.4 suffered by Labour.

Twenty-four hours on from her exuberant comeback messaging, Badenoch softened her tone, using a sober opinion piece in the Telegraph to talk more gently of “green shoots” – and perhaps conscious of the hundreds of Conservative councillors moodily reading her words.

“Despite the setbacks, I am encouraged by our results this week,” she wrote. “The Conservative party is rebuilding steadily, seriously and with purpose. We are not asking people to forget the past but to judge us by what we do next.”

Over the weekend, repeated Conservative talking heads pointed to Sky News’s vote share projections (which takes each party’s vote share in England council elections and projects them into a nationwide vote) that had Reform leading on 27% of the vote, with the Conservatives in second on 20%. Under the same tracker last year the party was 15 points behind Reform. (They tend not to mention the BBC analysis, which put Reform first with 26% of the vote, the Greens second on 18%, the Conservatives and Labour on 17%, and the Liberal Democrats on 16%.)

The optimism is genuine, said the Tory election expert Robert Hayward. The Conservative peer, who first identified the phenomenon of “shy Tories” before the 1992 election, pointed to successes in London – which always governs Westminster’s mood to an extent – the increase in the vote share and Badenoch’s favourability rating as to why the party faithful were feeling surprisingly buoyant.

“There’s a sense that Kemi has been laying the foundations for the last few months, and despite the huge level of losses in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, it could have been worse,” he said. After a disastrous set of results in 2025, many party members were simply feeling a sense of relief, he added.

“The Tory party can’t kid itself that there are not challenges. We’re in a bad position in Scotland. We’re in a bad position in Wales. There’s a whole string of councils where there are no conservative councillors, but there is this huge sigh of relief that they’ve almost got themselves off the floor and are still breathing.”

Badenoch’s (relative) popularity is repeatedly raised by Tory MPs. Last month the thinktank More in Common found she was the most popular party leader, on -9 net favourability. The latest YouGov tracker found 29% of Britons viewed her favourably, her highest score to date, and “part of a steady trend of improvement in attitudes … since the middle of last year”.

People like Badenoch on the doorstep, says her neighbour Richard Holden, the MP for Basildon and Billericay. “Even at the count I had a Reform candidate saying they were really impressed by Kemi,” he said. Asked if he thought he would keep hold of his seat, which he won by just 20 votes in the 2024 general election, he said: “There’s a shedload of work to do, but I’m more confident after these election results than I was before them.”

While a slowing down in the loss of Conservative support meant Badenoch was less likely to face a leadership challenge, her position had also been shored up by Robert Jenrick jumping ship to Reform, said the political commentator Henry Hill.

“There’s no challenger,” he said. “The party is also quite determined to find a silver lining, because it doesn’t really have an alternative at the moment.”

But while the Conservatives were no longer on life support, the party remained extremely sick, and was still polling lower nationally than after the 2024 general election, he added. “If you measure it in terms of, ‘Is the Conservative party going to die?’, then its demise seems less likely than it did a year ago,” he said. “But if you have any ambitions beyond that, it’s not obvious that the party really is on the road to recovery.”



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Trump says US will not allow Iran to reach enriched uranium | US-Israel war on Iran News

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President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will target any Iranian trying to reach the country’s highly enriched uranium, saying that the nuclear material is under constant surveillance by the US military.

In an interview with the syndicated TV show Full Measure that aired on Sunday, Trump appeared to play down the significance of the uranium, which is believed to be buried under the rubble of nuclear facilities, remaining in Iran for now.

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“We’ll get that at some point, whenever we want. We have it surveilled,” Trump said.

“I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching. If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge … If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”

Iran’s highly enriched uranium is one of the major sticking points between Washington and Tehran in ceasefire negotiations to end the 10-week US-Israel war on Iran.

The US wants Iran to transfer the uranium outside the country and completely shut down its nuclear programme, but Tehran has stressed that it will not give up its right to a domestic enrichment programme.

Several international media reports have said that the uranium remains under nuclear sites that the US bombed in June 2025, but Tehran has not confirmed the location of the nuclear material.

Last month, Trump announced that Iran had agreed to allow Washington to retrieve the uranium and bring it to the US – claims that Tehran quickly dismissed.

Trump told Reuters on April 17 that the US would work with Iran “at a nice leisurely pace, and go down and start excavating with big machinery” to retrieve the uranium stockpile at the sites.

“We’ll bring ⁠it back to the United States,” he added.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei denied Trump’s claim. “Enriched uranium is as sacred to us as Iranian soil and will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances,” he said.

Iran is estimated to have more than 400kg (882lb) of uranium enriched at 60 percent purity.

Uranium enrichment is a complex process of isolating and garnering the most radioactive variety – isotope – of the element to produce nuclear fuel.

When enriched to around 90 percent purity, uranium can be used to make nuclear weapons.

In 2015, Iran agreed to a multilateral deal that saw Tehran scale back its nuclear programme and cap its uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent under strict international supervision in exchange for lifting sanctions against its economy.

Trump nixed that agreement – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – and started reimposing sanctions on Iran.

In response, Tehran – which denies seeking a nuclear weapon – began to advance its enrichment programme well beyond the limits set by the JCPOA.

Trump has argued that the ongoing conflict with Iran aims to prevent the country from acquiring a nuclear bomb.

Asked about the rising oil prices due to the war, Trump said: “We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon because they’re crazy.”

The average price of one gallon (3.8 litres) of petrol or gasoline in the US has risen to more than $4.50 due to supply issues linked to the Iranian blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, fuelling inflation. It was less than $3 before the war.

Despite the truce that came into effect last month, skirmishes have erupted in the Gulf over the past week as the US continues to enforce a siege on Iranian ports amid Tehran’s Hormuz blockade.

Iranian state-affiliated news outlets reported on Sunday that Iran has delivered its response to the latest US proposal to end the war to Pakistan, which is mediating the talks.

But Trump said the war is not over while reiterating his claim that Iran has been “defeated”.

“They are defeated, but that doesn’t mean they’re done,” the US president said. “We could go in for two more weeks and do every single target. We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70 percent of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit.”



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Costco chicken tenders at select locations spark debate over 1,640 calories


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Costco’s new chicken tenders are gaining attention online — but shoppers aren’t exactly sold.

A TikTok video showing the oversized tenders has racked up thousands of views, with users reacting to both the portion size and calorie count. The video, filmed at a Costco location in Schaumburg, Illinois, shows a five-piece order priced at $6.99.

The item has appeared at select Costco locations across the U.S., with some customers noting it may be replacing the calzone at certain stores.

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It is unclear how widely the tenders are available or whether Costco plans a nationwide rollout.

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Costco’s new food court chicken tenders are getting attention online. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Chicken tenders are not entirely new to Costco, however. The item has been available at some international locations, including Canada and Australia, in recent years, food-focused publication TastingTable reported.

The meal includes several large chicken tenders served with dipping sauce, quickly drawing buzz across social media as customers share photos.

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The reaction online, however, has been mixed.

Some shoppers questioned what the tenders might be replacing.

“What did they get rid of? The calzone?” one user asked.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Costco for comment.

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The meal (not pictured) includes large chicken tenders served with dipping sauce, with some shoppers wondering if it may replace items like the calzone. (iStock)

Others focused less on the menu change and more on the calorie count.

The TikTok video shows the tenders total 1,640 calories, prompting strong reactions from viewers and questions about how the number could be so high.

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Some shoppers speculated the dipping sauce may be responsible for a large portion of the calories.

Still, not everyone was critical.

“Those look amazing,” one user wrote, while others said they were eager to try the item if it expands to more locations.

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Fox News Digital previously reported that Costco recently reintroduced churros in a new format, though the change drew mixed reactions from shoppers.

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People online paid attention to the high calorie count, as the TikTok video shows the Costco tenders have 1,640 calories. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Instead of the traditional full-size pastry, the retailer rolled out a caramel churro sundae topped with smaller churro pieces.

Some longtime customers expressed disappointment, saying they preferred the original version that had been a staple for years.

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Others welcomed the update, noting that Costco frequently rotates items on its food court menu depending on demand and availability.

Deirdre Bardolf of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.



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Iran may negotiate on how it uses nuclear facilities, but it will not destroy uranium or allow it to be moved overseas, senior researcher Sultan Al-Khulaifi says.



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Trump unhappy about NFL streaming costs for fans as government probes league’s antitrust exemption


President Donald Trump has chimed in on the NFL’s fight to retain its antitrust exemption amid probes by the FCC and Justice Department that could seriously affect the league’s business model if it loses its exemption.

At the center of the issue is whether the NFL’s shift of games onto Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and Peacock has become too expensive for average fans to access, which in turn could be a violation of the Sports Broadcasting Act and the antitrust exemption the act grants the league.

In a wide-ranging interview involving other subjects on the president’s plate, reporter Sharyl Attkisson asked if the NFL is “price gouging” and whether the administration is going to do anything about it.

“It’s tough,” Trump replied. “You got people that love football. They’re great people, they don’t make enough money to go and pay this. It’s tough. And [the NFL] could be killing the golden goose, I mean to have that stupid kickoff thing that you can’t watch, it’s unwatchable. I hate the games where they, you know, they have the new phony kickoff. I don’t think it’s any safer. I hope college football doesn’t do that.”

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President Donald Trump walks onto the field before Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La., on Feb. 9, 2025. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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Got it, the president is not a fan of the NFL’s so-called dynamic kickoff that the league says has lowered the number of head injuries in its games.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand — the NFL’s growing relationship with streaming services and the cost of adding those for fans.

“…They have to be careful because others have tried this and all of a sudden you don’t have a sport anymore,” Trump said. “Probably will.”

Did the president just say his administration will step in?

“It’s something, there’s something very sad when they take football away from many, many people, very sad. I don’t like it,” Trump said.

Again, is the government stepping in?

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President Donald Trump’s FCC is seeking public comments on the shift of live sports from broadcast channels to streaming services. (Getty Images)

“I don’t know,” Trump said. “I don’t, but I don’t like it. I don’t like it. They’re making a lot of money. They could make a little bit less … You’ve got people that live for Sunday. They live, they can’t think about anything else, and then all of a sudden they’re going to have to pay $1,000 a game?

“It’s crazy, so, I’m not happy about it.”

For the record, no one pays $1,000 to watch an NFL game on a streaming service. But the cost of adding the multiple streaming platforms the NFL is now doing business with, plus the cost of cable or satellite service to have all games available on a given game day, could easily eclipse $1,000 per season.

And while that is potentially a lower cost than, say, a family of four actually attending a game once one figures in tickets, parking and concession purchases of food and beverages, that’s not the point.

The point is the NFL enjoys a government-provided antitrust exemption that has become the cornerstone of its business model.

That exemption passed by Congress in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 and signed into law by President John F. Kennedy allows the NFL to negotiate massive league-wide broadcast deals with networks.

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office as Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser listen during an event on May 5, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)

And that has benefited the league in ways Major League Baseball and other leagues have not because those broadcast rights are typically the highest in American sports and the NFL shares those revenues evenly among its teams.

So there are no poor teams competing with rich teams. And that makes the NFL more competitive to the point smaller-market teams such as the Kansas City Chiefs can author a dynasty with multiple Super Bowl wins even as big-market teams such as the New York Jets or New York Giants aren’t automatically good simply because they have more money to spend.

At issue is that the Sports Broadcasting Act only covers over-the-air television and not the relatively new streaming services that are expensive for some consumers.

So the government probes by the FCC and DOJ are questioning whether the 1961 act is being violated by 2020s-era broadcasting rights to pay streaming services.

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So, while the NFL’s business model depends on centralized control of its media rights allowed under the antitrust exemption, adding streaming to that model makes restrictive bundling harder to justify.

We now know what side the president is on.

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British paratroopers land on Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case | Hantavirus

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Paratroopers landed on a “golf course covered in rocks” to supply medical personnel and oxygen to Britain’s most remote overseas territory as it deals with a suspected hantavirus case, an army commander said.

The UK Health Security Agency confirmed on Friday that a British national had disembarked from the cruise ship MV Hondius to the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where they live, with a suspected case of hantavirus.

Six paratroopers, a Royal Air Force (RAF) consultant and an army nurse from 16 Air Assault Brigade were parachuted to the island, which is normally only accessible by boat, while oxygen supplies and medical aid were also dropped.

An RAF A400M transport aircraft flew from RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, to Ascension Island, supported by an RAF Voyager, before heading to Tristan da Cunha.

Tristan da Cunha, in a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is Britain’s most remote inhabited overseas territory – accessible only by boat, it has no airstrip and a population of 221.

Brigadier Ed Cartwright, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, said there was “7,000 miles and about 56 hours” between help being requested and “having those parachutists and those medical stores on the ground”.

Describing the mission, he told Sky News: “No airstrip, high winds, very difficult to reach, and over a week for a boat, and the patient, as I understand, was on oxygen, and that oxygen supply was running out – so we had very few options.

“I think the soldiers will have had a great time, but it’s pretty risky. Parachuting has some inherent dangers. The winds were reasonably high.

“The parachuters – I’ve spoken to them – they described it to me as a ‘pretty tasty jump’.

“They would have got out of the aircraft, had to turn straight into wind to avoid being pushed past the island and into the Atlantic, and then had a very difficult descent down through the cloud and then on to the drop zone, which was a golf course covered in rocks.”

The Army commander said there was a “plan to get them back”.

He added: “There are some ships being moved and some further medical support being prepared, so we’ll be able to extract them safely in due course.”

The Ministry of Defence said it was the first time medical personnel had been parachuted in to provide humanitarian support.

Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, said the safety of “all members of the British family” was the top priority.

“We will continue to work closely with international authorities and the Tristan da Cunha administration, keeping those affected informed and ensuring the right support is in place in the UK and across the overseas territories,” she said.



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Virginia Democrats trade blame after court kills redistricting maps


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Virginia Democrats’ redistricting push was meant to lock in an advantage. Instead, it’s unraveling after a costly court defeat—triggering a growing blame game inside the party.

The high-stakes effort to redraw congressional maps, backed by tens of millions of dollars and significant political capital, briefly delivered a narrow on-paper win. But in a 4–3 ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the maps, citing legal deficiencies, and forced a redraw—wiping out those gains.

Democrats are left arguing over whether party leaders ignored legal warnings and pushed a strategy that was always at risk of collapsing.

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In hindsight, critics say the outcome was avoidable. Republicans had urged an earlier court review before votes were cast and money spent, a step they argued could have clarified the maps’ legality. 

Democrats pressed ahead anyway, betting the strategy would hold.

“Violating the Virginia Constitution and bypassing the rule of law to further one’s own political power is wrong,” Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., said in a statement to The Hill. “Had [Democratic Gov.] Abigail Spanberger and the rest of Virginia’s Democrats succeeded, they would have caused irreparable harm to our democracy and disenfranchised millions of Virginians.”

Allies of Spanberger say legal concerns were raised early and not fully heeded, pointing to state lawmakers for pushing forward. Lawmakers and other Democrats counter that litigation was inevitable and the maps were defensible.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers a response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. (Steve Helber/Reuters)

The dispute reflects a broader divide within the party over how aggressively to pursue redistricting. Some Democrats argue such efforts are necessary to counter Republican-led maps nationwide.

“I feel like the system is fundamentally broken, but let’s be clear. Republicans began the redistricting arms race,” Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., told Fox News Digital in an earlier interview. “And so Democrats are left with no choice but to level the playing field for the sake of democracy.”

“Look, in a perfect world, we wouldn’t have political gerrymandering,” Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, added. “But because we don’t live in that world, we’ve got to fight fire with fire.”

Others, however, are more blunt in assigning blame.

“I put this all on Democrats,” Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, said, arguing the party failed to respond forcefully to earlier GOP redistricting efforts and is now facing the consequences.

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Voters attend an Arlington Democrats redistricting vote watch party during a special election in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)

The fallout is landing at a difficult moment.

A federal raid on May 6 on the office of a powerful state senator has added to a sense of instability, while former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has suggested the turmoil could give Spanberger an opening to reset and impose discipline on a still-fractured political operation.

The episode underscores the growing role of courts in redistricting fights—and the risks of pushing legal boundaries in a high-stakes environment, with potential implications for control of Virginia’s congressional delegation.

In retrospect, even with the narrow 4–3 decision, it’s a steep price: roughly $70 million and much of Spanberger’s political capital spent on a campaign that won the battle but lost the war.

Democrats are left to sort out not just what went wrong—but who’s responsible.

Fox News Digital’s Leo Briceno contributed to this report.



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