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House to return tonight as McCarthy tries to nail down final speaker votes … Updated just now — Today, the majority Republican House voted to adjourn until 10 p.m. Eastern to allow two supporters of Kevin McCarthy's speaker bid to return to Washington and give supporters …
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Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:
McCarthy Makes Progress—Flips 15 Republican Votes But Will Likely Lose 13th Ballot — Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made his first tangible progress toward becoming House speaker since voting started Tuesday, flipping the votes of 15 Republicans who opposed him in earlier rounds …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
The ‘Never Kevin’ Chaos Is Tearing Fox News Apart — The never-ending House speaker vote has further divided Republicans, but it has also exposed a giant rift within Fox News, with Tucker openly calling one colleague a “moron.” — The seemingly never-ending fight for the House speakership …
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Grid News:
‘The Democrats, the Republicans and the Freedom Caucus’: Inside the right's plans to seize power in the new Congress
‘The Democrats, the Republicans and the Freedom Caucus’: Inside the right's plans to seize power in the new Congress
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy's Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy's Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
House members blocking McCarthy speaker bid meet at offices of ex-Trump chief Mark Meadows — United States Senator from South Carolina — Several Republican House members fighting to stop Rep. Kevin McCarthy from becoming Speaker of the House met Friday morning at the offices …
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Politico:
Enablers, line-straddlers and quiet resisters: How GOP lawmakers contributed to Jan. 6
Enablers, line-straddlers and quiet resisters: How GOP lawmakers contributed to Jan. 6
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Washington Post:
Social Security numbers of Trump officials, allies posted in Jan. 6 files
Social Security numbers of Trump officials, allies posted in Jan. 6 files
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CNN:
Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase
Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
The feds say they're in for the long haul in the Jan. 6 investigation. There is a time limit.
The feds say they're in for the long haul in the Jan. 6 investigation. There is a time limit.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Missing Call Logs Could Become His Nixon Tapes
How Trump's Missing Call Logs Could Become His Nixon Tapes
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Matt Laslo / Raw Story:
Some Democrats fear a mass shooting on House floor — by a QAnon-Republican — WASHINGTON—Surprise quickly morphed into alarm for some at the Capitol this week as a post-Jan. 6 security measure vanished without warning just before Republicans reclaimed control of the House.
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Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg:
Biden Gets a Political Gift on Jan. 6 Anniversary With GOP's Capitol Mutiny
Biden Gets a Political Gift on Jan. 6 Anniversary With GOP's Capitol Mutiny
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
House Democrats connect Jan. 6 to GOP's speakership fight
House Democrats connect Jan. 6 to GOP's speakership fight
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Alex Sundby / CBS News:
6-year-old shot teacher at Newport News, Virginia, elementary school, police say — A 6-year-old student shot a teacher during an altercation at a Virginia elementary school on Friday, police said. No students were injured in the incident at Richneck Elementary School, Newport News police said in a statement.
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Jack Newman / Daily Mail:
John Bolton announces he WILL run for the White House in 2024 against former boss Donald Trump as he blasts the ex-president's ‘terminal decline’ — Bolton served as Donald Trump's national security adviser from 2018 to 2019 — He has announced he will run against the former president in the 2024 election
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NBC News:
On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found — Twitter accounts that offer to trade or sell child sexual abuse material under thinly veiled terms and hashtags have remained online for months, even after CEO Elon Musk said he would combat child exploitation on the platform.
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Raw Story
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Donald Trump Will Be in the Lead of His Obituary”: Ex-Rudy Giuliani Aide Dishes on Sweeping New CNN Doc — From 9/11 hero to Trump toady, a four-part CNN series will chronicle the epic fall of “America's Mayor.” Consulting producer Ken Frydman, “dismayed” by his former boss's antics, hopes he'll “start caring about his legacy.”
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Raw Story
CREW:
Corporations have given over $50 million to the Sedition Caucus … On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters — emboldened by then-President Trump's call to “fight like hell” — stormed the Capitol Building in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Supporters raise millions to rebrand Jan. 6 rioters as ‘patriots’
Supporters raise millions to rebrand Jan. 6 rioters as ‘patriots’
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Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Big-Money Donors Can't Reel In GOP Rebels
Why Big-Money Donors Can't Reel In GOP Rebels
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Conservative leader Matt Schlapp is accused of fondling a male campaign staffer in Georgia — WASHINGTON — Matt Schlapp, one of the nation's most prominent conservative leaders and a top ally of former President Donald Trump, is being accused of sexually groping a male aide …
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Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Federal judges strike down SC's 1st Congressional District as racial gerrymandering — South Carolina lawmakers drew the coastal 1st Congressional District held by Republican Nancy Mace in such a way that it discriminates against Black voters and must be recrafted by the end of March, a panel of federal judges has concluded.
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
Trump-era ban on bump stocks struck down by court — A Trump-era ban on bump stocks, devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire multiple rounds quickly, was nixed by a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Friday. — The ban was imposed after the deadly 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting …
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Kevin Mcgill / Associated Press:
US appeals court blocks ban on rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’
US appeals court blocks ban on rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’
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Politico:
Katie Porter weighs Senate bid launch as Feinstein stays mum — Rep. Katie Porter is weighing a campaign launch for Sen. Dianne Feinstein's seat — potentially even before her veteran Democratic colleague announces her plans for 2024. — Fresh off a bruising battleground reelection win …
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Political Wire
Rolling Stone:
Sex Trafficking Row Helped Fuel Gaetz's Hatred for McCarthy — The Florida congressman's opposition to the House Speaker hopeful's bid for the gavel is indeed personal, sources tell Rolling Stone … What he was not privately predicting was that the beatings would continue for an entire week.
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Bloomberg:
McCarthy's Speaker Deal Could Stymie Defense Spending Next Year — The emerging deal Kevin McCarthy is discussing to make him speaker of the House could make agreements on new defense spending impossible next year, at a time when the US is intent on backing Ukraine against the Russian invasion …
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Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
2 Men Accidentally Set Themselves on Fire Trying to Burn Down an Immigration Center — Video shows both the men running away from the fire they set with their clothing in flames. — Mack Lamoureux — Two men set themselves on fire after dumping an accelerant on a California immigration services building …
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Judge suspends law license of lawyer for Alex Jones following Sandy Hook document leaks — A Connecticut judge suspended the law license of a lawyer for right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones after he allegedly improperly released court documents from the Sandy Hook defamation case.
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Tracie Canada / Scientific American:
Damar Hamlin's Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football — The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football's violence disproportionately affects Black men — Millions of people watched as Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old player in the National Football League (NFL) …
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Sam Mellins / New York Focus:
‘Highly Unlikely’ Hector LaSalle Gets a Floor Vote, Say Senate Democrats … GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL'S nominee for Chief Judge of the state's highest court is “highly unlikely” to get a confirmation vote from the full state Senate, Senate Democratic spokesperson Mike Murphy told New York Focus.
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Matt Leach / Fox News:
‘CORPORATE KINGDOM’: DeSantis-backed plan to take control of Disney's land announced — Planned legislation would replace Disney's self-governing powers with state run board: DeSantis sources — Floridians react to Disney's “wokeness” after DeSantis passes Parental Rights in Education bill