Eoff: We start the day's other headlines with a rare Republican review of one of president trump's priorities.

Indiana's Republican led senate voted this afternoon against a plan to redraw its state's electoral map.

>> This bill has been defeated.

Geoff: 21 Republicans joined all 10 Democrats in voting down the measure.

Outside .. the redistricting plan celebrated.

The vote comes after.. pressure from president trump who had been pushing Republican led states to re.. ahead of next year's midterm elections.

A gran.. refused to bring a new indictment against New York attorney general.. for mortgage fraud.

It is the second time in a week that the justice department has failed to resurrect its case against James.

A judge throughout an original indictment finding that the prosecutor in the case, Lindsey Halligan, ha.. appointed to her role.

A similar case against another of president trump's perceived foes, former FBI director James Comey, was also dismissed last month for similar reasons.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia left a detention center in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered his really saying his months long detention was troubling.

The native of El Salvador and Maryland resident was mistakenly deported by the administration this past spring, and then returned to the U.S.

In June to face human smuggling charges, which he denies.

The white house says they'll appeal his release.

This comes as the administration's immigration policies were under scrutiny by lawmakers today.

>> Joe Biden left us with -- >> I'm not asking you about Joe Bien, I'm asking you a specific question.

hearing, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem defended the trump administration's hard-line immigration po.. >> We're ending illegal immigration, returning sanity back to our immigration system.

We will never yield.

We will never waver, and we will never back down.

Geoff: There was also this moment, when secretary Noem was asked how many U.S.

Military veterans her agency .. deported.

>> Sir, we have not deported U.S.

Citizens or military veterans.

>> We are joined.. United States army combat veteran.

Will you joi.. Parker for his service to our country?

>> I'm grateful for every single person that has served our country and follows our la.. >> Can you tell Mr.

Park why you deported him?

>> Every s.. needs to be enforced.

Geoff: Meantime, the.. armed services committee questioned top military officials over the legality of troop deployments to U.S.

Cities.

The white house says the deployments ar.. fighting lawlessness, while critics describe them as an abuse of military power that violates state's rights.

The oil tanker that was taken yesterday by U.S.

Forces off the coast of Venezuela will make its way to an American port, where authorities will seize the oil on board.

That's according to white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

This afternoon, she described the tanker as a sanctioned shadow vessel carrying black market oil which she said justified its seizure.

>> The United States currently has a full investigative team on the ground, on the vessel and individuals on board the vessel are being interviewed and any relevant evidence is being seized.

The vessel will go to a us port, and the United States does intend to seize the oil, however there is a legal process for the seizure of that oil and that legal process will be followed.

Geoff: Also today, the U.S.

Imposed sanctions on three Venezuelan president Nicolas maduro's nephews among others, as the trump administration continues to increase pr.. on that country.

Meantime, the face of Venezuela's resistance.. Nobel laureate Maria Corina machado waved to a cheering crowd in Oslo late last night where she is being celebrated as this year's Nobel peace prize winner.

It was her first public appearance in 11 months.

>> Venezuela will be free.

Geoff: At a press conference today, machado vowed to keep fighting for her homeland's democracy, and credited what she called the decisive actions of president trump for weakening the maduro regime.

Here at home, state health officials are reporting rising cases of the measles in .. separate outbreaks in the eastern and western U.S.

New cases are cropping up along the utah-arizona border, as well as in South Carolina, where more than 250 people have been quarantined.

Arizona has logged 172 measles cases since August, and Utah has seen 82.

In South Carolina, 111 people have been sickened in just the last two months.

Nationwide, the number of measles cases is nearing 2,000, the highest number since 1992.

Days of relentless rain have sent rivers rising toward record levels in the pacific northwest.

The national weather service says the atmospheric river began to subside today.

But not before dumping more than a foot of rain in some areas.

Washington is under a statewide emergency, with tens of thousands un.. orders, especially around the Seattle area.

Those who've stayed are doing what they can to keep the floodwaters out.

>> We're just trying to build a wall, like a little island perimeter around the property here, to keep the water out from the house.

Geoff: Meantime in parts of western Washington, rivers are continuing to swell, prompting numerous water rescues and road closures.

Disney annouced a billion-dollar investment in openai today, to bring iconic characters like Mickey mouse and Luke Skywalker to the sora video tool.

The three year-licensing deal will allow fans to create and share videos with more than 200 Disney, marvel, Pixar and star wars characters.

Disney CEO Bob iger said the agreement will extend the reach of our storytelling through generative ai, while respecting and protecting creators and their works.

The deal comes as Hollywood tries to navigate the opportunities and challenges that generative ai presents.

Artificial intelligence is gracing the cover of time magazine, which named the architects of ai as its person of the year for 2025.

That includes nvidia CEO Jensen huang and openai boss Sam Altman, among others.

The publication said this was the year when the potential for ai "Roared into view," and "That there will be no turning back or opting out."

An ai boom has of course been driving a long-running rally on Wall Street.

And today, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 600 points to a new all-time high.

The NASDAQ lost ground, giving back about 60 points.

The S&P 500 managed a modest gain.

Still to come on the news hour, then a investigation delves into connections between the misogynist influencers t.. brothers and the trump inner circle.

The president an.. with a steep price for stores and restaurants that imported Italian pasta.

We explore the best video games released this year.

>> This is the pbs news hour from the David M. Rubenstein studio at weta in Washington and in the west from.. Cronkite school of journal.. Arizona state university.