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9/12/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — THE TOP … McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could get an update on the investigations led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair Jamie Comer (R-Ky.).
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CNN:
GOP lawmaker faces blowback from Republicans over anti-impeachment stance — Conservative Rep. Ken Buck is just one of several House Republicans standing in the way of the right's push to impeach President Joe Biden. — But his high-profile seat on the key House Judiciary Committee …
Politico:
Playbook: The clash that will set the tone for September — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — JUST POSTED — WaPo's Ben Terris takes a deep dive into Sen. TIM SCOTT's love life, a subject that has become something of a thing for the 57-year-old bachelor …
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Washington Post:
House lawmakers return to looming budget and impeachment decisions — Balancing the two demands could be the hardest test of Speaker McCarthy's leadership thus far — The House reconvenes Tuesday with a pressing deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown, a priority that threatens …
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Punchbowl News:
McCarthy will endorse impeachment inquiry this week — THE TOP … McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could get an update on the investigations led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
How Democrats could save Kevin McCarthy
How Democrats could save Kevin McCarthy
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Raw Story, American Wire News, Washington Examiner and New Republic
Billy House / Bloomberg:
McCarthy to Back Opening Biden Impeachment Probe
McCarthy to Back Opening Biden Impeachment Probe
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips — Susanna Gibson is running in a competitive district with control of the House at stake. — RICHMOND — A Democrat running for a crucial seat in Virginia's House of Delegates performed sex acts with her husband …
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Associated Press:
Virginia election candidate responds after leak of tapes showing her performing sex acts with husband: “It won't silence me” — A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay …
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The Messenger, Heavy.com, New York Times and Political Wire
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
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Twitchy
Associated Press:
Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump files motions to dismiss charges against him in Georgia election case
Trump files motions to dismiss charges against him in Georgia election case
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New York Times and Above the Law
Washington Post:
Trump demands recusal by Judge Chutkan in D.C. Jan. 6 trial
Trump demands recusal by Judge Chutkan in D.C. Jan. 6 trial
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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Palmer Report and Raw Story
CBS News:
Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case
Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
The US moves to advance a prisoner swap deal with Iran and release $6 billion in frozen funds — The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money …
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Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Iranian president says Tehran will spend $6 billion released in prisoner exchange ‘wherever we need it’
Iranian president says Tehran will spend $6 billion released in prisoner exchange ‘wherever we need it’
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Fox News, The Messenger, ZeroHedge News and Political Wire
John Hudson / Washington Post:
U.S. advances deal with Iran to swap prisoners, free frozen oil funds
U.S. advances deal with Iran to swap prisoners, free frozen oil funds
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FOX8 WGHP, NewsNation, The Hill and The Messenger
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump faces another 14th Amendment candidacy challenge, this time in Minnesota — A liberal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks that hopes to invoke the 14th Amendment's arcane “insurrectionist ban.”
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Talking Points Memo and Boston Herald
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground — Home Polls Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground — Neither Party with Clear Alternatives to Frontrunners — A new Emerson College Polling survey …
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and Florida Politics
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Senile Joe Biden rambles about pony soldiers, Vietnam and lies about 9/11 — In April 1968, after he had run through five draft deferments, a medical board determined Joe Biden was unfit to go to Vietnam. — Unfortunately, nobody stopped him this time. — The president …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I just had another one’: How McConnell scrambled to protect his job after two freeze-ups — The GOP leader emerged from a tumultuous 10 days with his internal strength intact, according to interviews with more than a dozen senators. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's apparent health problems …
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Andrew Yang says he's had ‘conversations’ with No Labels — The former Democratic candidate railed against a potential Trump-Biden rematch in an interview in POLITICO's office. — Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate and one-time New York City mayoral hopeful …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Wisconsin Republicans' nuclear option — In April, Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court with more than one million votes, defeating her conservative opponent by a wide margin. Her victory tipped the balance of the court, and the new liberal majority will soon review a case …
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Journal Sentinel, The Nation and The Guardian
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Political ad spending for 2024 expected to shatter $10 billion, breaking record — The new projected high comes as ad spending in the GOP race has already hit a torrid pace. — Political ad spending is projected to reach new heights by the end of the 2024 election cycle …
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Bloomberg
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's girlfriend … In June, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) began to get a little momentum in the presidential primary, a person working on behalf of one of Scott's Republican opponents messaged me, asking to chat. — “Have you seen the video,” he asked over the phone, conspiratorially, “where he says he has a girlfriend?”
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Insider, HuffPost and The Bulwark
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise — Public health experts denounced the platform's moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information — LOS ANGELES — Instagram's text-based social platform Threads last week rolled …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Biden claims he was at Ground Zero day after 9/11 — but his own book puts him in DC — WASHINGTON — President Biden said Monday that he was at the World Trade Center site in New York City one day after the 9/11 attacks — despite his own autobiography placing him in DC.
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ross Douthat's Theories of Persuasion — At a time of distrust and polarization, the conservative Times columnist seeks to bridge the worlds of the Christian right and the secular left. — This summer, Ross Douthat, liberal America's favorite conservative commentator …
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Althouse