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Mike Allen / Axios:
McCarthy still short on votes in bid to become speaker — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has begged countless lawmakers — and offered extraordinary concessions, including allowing members to easily fire him at any time — to secure the votes for speaker.
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Rep. Don Bacon / The Daily Caller:
If McCarthy's Speaker Bid Fails, Democrats Might Have To Be Part Of The Process … I support Kevin McCarthy, but a small handful of people are holding us hostage. — The vast majority of the conference knows we can't cave to the few when the demands are unreasonable.
Politico:
Conservatives threaten to withhold critical McCarthy support, hours before speaker vote — Kevin McCarthy has already moved into the speaker's office, even as an influential conservative group urges members to vote against him unless he concedes to key rules changes.
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USA Today
Stephen Neukam / The Hill:
Gingrich offers searing criticism of Republicans who oppose McCarthy — Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) slammed GOP lawmakers who said they plan to oppose Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in his bid for Speaker, calling the conservatives holding out against McCarthy …
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Raw Story, Just The News and Fox News
Politico:
McCarthy relents on key conservative demand — but uncertainty remains over speaker bid — Kevin McCarthy has made perhaps his biggest concession so far to the band of conservatives standing in the way of his path to speaker. Yet it's not clear if it will be enough to clinch his gavel.
Scott Parkinson / Club for Growth:
Key Vote Alert - House - Speaker Vote
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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Common Dreams and Balkinization
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Here Are the House Republicans to Watch if McCarthy's Bid for Speaker Falters
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Outside the Beltway, Vanity Fair and Mediaite
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
EXPLAINER: How the House of Representatives elects a speaker
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News and Washington Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy on the brink
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Eileen Grench / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Bob Good Teases Rival to Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker
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New York Times:
Brazilian Authorities Will Revive Fraud Case Against George Santos — A 2008 court case had been suspended because Brazilian law enforcement officials could not find Mr. Santos. — When Representative-elect George Santos takes his seat in Congress on Tuesday, he will do so under the shadow …
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Rachael Bunyan / Daily Mail:
'It's going to stink for a while, but I'll fight with all I have got': Tennis world rallies around Wimbledon legend Martina Navratilova, 66, as she reveals ‘double whammy’ of throat and breast cancer diagnosis — Martina Navratilova, 66, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer …
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Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
‘DOUBLE WHAMMY’: Martina Navratilova Has 2 Kinds of Cancer
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Tennis.com, NPR, Forbes, Associated Press, CBS News and New York Daily News
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
‘This made us all unemployable’: Trump White House aides respond to January 6 in angry text exchange — A text exchange between Ivanka Trump's chief of staff Julie Radford and White House aide Hope Hicks reveals their anger over then-President Donald Trump's actions on January 6, 2021 …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Hope Hicks to aide on Jan. 6: ‘We all look like domestic terrorists now’
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Hope Hicks, Ivanka Aide Fumed at Karlie Kloss' Jan. 6 Tweets
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PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
A Comprehensive Guide to Why a Ron DeSantis Presidency Would Be as Terrifying as a Trump One — His bigoted policies and authoritarian behavior make him just as bad a pick for the top job in Washington. — Ron DeSantis has not (yet) said if he will run for president in 2024 …
New York Times:
Ukrainian Attack Kills 63 Russian Soldiers in East, Moscow Says … A Russian proxy official called the attack in Donetsk a ‘massive blow.’ — Ukrainian missiles struck a building that housed Russian soldiers in an occupied city in Donetsk early on New Year's Day, according to Russian proxy officials and the Ukrainian military.
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Asta Hemenway / The Daily Beast:
South Carolina Lawmaker Found Drunk in Parked Car on New Year's — ‘ASHAMED’ — South Carolina state Sen. Tom Davis was hit with a public intoxication ticket on New Year's after he was found drunk in a parked car. The Republican said in a statement that he got in a car after a night of drinking …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Inside the Jan. 6 committee's massive new evidence trove — The Jan. 6 select committee has unloaded a vast database of its underlying evidence — emails between Trump attorneys, text messages among horrified White House aides and outside advisers, internal communications among security …
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Associated Press, Raw Story, Insider, Balloon Juice, Digby's Hullabaloo and Rolling Stone
Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
White contractors wouldn't remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. — RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill. Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection.
Jessica Piper / Politico:
New data shows the folly of Trump's crusade against early voting — If there was any doubt Donald Trump's vilification of early voting is only hurting the GOP, new receipts from the midterm elections show it. — Election data from a trio of states that dramatically expanded the ability …
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Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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