General Motors (GM) is recalling over 23,000 Chevrolet Corvettes due to a fuel leak issue, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

The recall was initiated after it was discovered that excess fuel could be spilled into the cars’ fuel-filler pocket during refueling, possibly leaking onto an ignition source and increasing the risk of fire. 

The defect was tied to four alleged fires, identified by GM’s probe, with two that “included evidence indicating that the filling station pump was malfunctioning and caused a fuel spill at the time of the incident.” 

The recall encompasses Corvette models from 2023 to 2025, NHTSA reported. Around 0.1 percent of the recalled vehicles contain the defect, the auto agency said. 

As part of the recall, dealers will insert a shield to divert spilled fuel, according to NHTSA. 

General Motors told Road & Track it is focused on “excess fuel spillage issue during refueling.”

“This is a rare occurrence, and malfunctioning filling station pumps appear to be a contributing factor. The safety of our customers is the highest priority for the entire GM team, and we’re working to remedy this matter as quickly as possible,” a GM spokesperson said. 

The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a new congressional map passed in Texas violates the Voting Rights Act. 

The lawsuit alleges that Texas racially gerrymandered their map in such a way that it blocks Black voters from being to elect their picks for office.  

Texas Republicans passed a new congressional map in the state legislature this month, which looks to give their party five pick-up opportunities in the House ahead of 2026. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has not signed the maps into law but is expected to do so soon. 

Democrats have criticized Texas Republicans for making an already GOP-favored House map tilt further toward Republicans, arguing it breaks up communities of interest and saying Republicans are bending a knee to President Trump and the White House over their push to do mid-decade redistricting. 

“The state of Texas is only 40 percent white, but white voters control over 73 percent of the state’s congressional seats,” NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement.  

“It’s quite obvious that Texas’s effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year’s midterm elections, is racially motivated,” he added. “The state’s intent here is to reduce the members of Congress who represent Black communities, and that, in and of itself, is unconstitutional.”   

Damon T. Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, described the map as “intentionally harmful” and “discriminatory” in his own statement. 

“Black and Brown voters in Texas deserve better. They are legally and constitutionally entitled to fair representation,” he said. “These maps do the opposite, and they must not stand.” 

Republicans, however, have called Democrats hypocritical, noting that several of the state Texas Democrats fled to during their quorum break were ones that have been gerrymandered.  

They also point out that California Democrats looking to place a new House map in front of voters this fall subverts the independent redistricting commission the state has in place to draw the maps once each decade. California Democrats say they are in favor of independent redistricting and see this as a temporary measure.  

Several other Democratic-aligned and civil rights groups have also signaled they are ready to sue over the Texas House map as well.  

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s on track to identify “interventions” that are “certainly causing autism” and possible ways of addressing them by September.

In April, Kennedy vowed to find the cause of growing rates of autism, calling it an “epidemic” that “dwarfs the COVID epidemic.”

President Trump asked Kennedy for a progress update during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying, “The autism is such a tremendous horror show. What’s happening in our country and some other countries, but mostly our country. How are you doing?”

“We are doing very well,” Kennedy responded. “We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we’re going to be able to address those in September.”

Kennedy has long claimed that environmental factors, or vaccines, are likely culprits behind the rising rate of autism diagnoses, arguing research to back this up has been blocked by federal authorities. He argued in April that autism should be prevented because autistic people are burdens on their family and society.

“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said.  “Autism destroys families.”

During the cabinet meeting, Kennedy pointed to his oft-repeated evidence of environmental factors contributing to autism rates, noting how diagnosis rates have significantly jumped since the 1970’s.

“So, there has to be something artificially causing this, meaning a drug or something. And I know you’re looking very strongly at different things, and I hope you can come out with that as soon as possible,” Trump said.

According to the CDC, 1 in 31 children and 1 in 45 adults in the U.S. have autism, significantly than the 1 in 150 rate just a few decades ago. But according to experts, this is more likely due to autism detection improving since the diagnosis was first developed and the criteria broadening over the years. The first time someone was diagnosed with autism was in 1943.

“Rates of autism without intellectual disability, that is increasing faster than diagnoses of autism with intellectual disability, which shows that if that group that would have been missed in the past that is making up the larger portion of the increase in diagnoses,” Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at Autistic Self Advocacy Network, told The Hill in June.