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5:50 AM ET, October 4, 2023

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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Only Sin That Republicans Can't Forgive  —  The fall of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today demonstrated again that the one sin that cannot be forgiven in the modern Republican Party is being seen as failing to fight the Democratic agenda by any means necessary.
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Newt Gingrich / Washington Post:
Republicans must expel Matt Gaetz  —  Newt Gingrich, a Republican from Georgia, was speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is an anti-Republican who has become actively destructive to the conservative movement.  —  Drama has filled the halls of Congress for 234 years.
Politico:
The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024  —  Kevin McCarthy's undoing underscores a bigger problem — the inability to govern itself — that risks imperiling the party's chances in 2024.  —  There's no House speaker, Republicans are tearing each other to shreds over Kevin McCarthy's ouster …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP tensions explode after McCarthy bows out of speaker race  —  House Republicans were distraught, furious and concerned for the future of their party after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced he won't run for speaker again after being ousted on Tuesday.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Ramaswamy says chaos not ‘a bad thing’ after McCarthy ousted as speaker  —  Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy agreed with those attacking Republicans who removed Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the Speakership on Tuesday, but said the resulting chaos is actually a good outcome.
John L. Dorman / Insider:
Kevin McCarthy's CBS interview, where he blamed Democrats for the near-government shutdown, tanked any hope of them saving his speakership  — A CBS News interview destroyed any chance that Kevin McCarthy had in keeping his job as speaker.  — Just a handful of Democrats could have easily crossed …
John F. Harris / Politico:
The House GOP Is a Failed State  —  Kevin McCarthy's ouster is dramatic evidence, if redundant, about the state of the modern GOP.  —  At the start, Kevin McCarthy's speakership was effectively an optical illusion.  At the end, it was an exercise in self-abasement.  Francis Chung/POLITICO
The Hill:
McCarthy won't run for Speaker again
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House in Chaos: Kevin McCarthy Ousted From Speakership
Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's House speaker job under threat, with vote possible today
Laura Davison / Bloomberg:
Interim Speaker Patrick McHenry Is Trusted McCarthy Lieutenant
Brent D. Griffiths / Insider:
Once a secret, the temporary House speaker is Rep. Patrick McHenry
Washington Post:
Will House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lose his job? Here are the scenarios.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Kicks Reporters Out of Courtroom to Talk to Trump and AG  —  Justice Arthur F. Engoron also issued a gag order against Trump earlier in the day after the former president attacked one of his law clerks on social media.  —  A turbulent second day at Donald Trump's bank fraud trial …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Trump Ordered Not to Comment on Judge's Staff in Fraud Case  —  The former president attacked Justice Arthur F. Engoron's clerk in a social media post that soon disappeared.  He was called to account behind closed doors.  —  A New York judge placed a limited gag order on Donald J. Trump …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Posts (Then Deletes) Attack Against Judge's Clerk During Trial  —  The former president is attending his New York civil fraud trial in person, ranting at cameras and on social media in between courtroom sessions … Trump last week was found guilty of committing fraud in the case …
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House  —  Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) announced late Tuesday he will file paperwork to nominate former President Trump to be the next Speaker of the House.  —  “This week, when the U.S. House of Representatives reconvenes …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility  —  Sean Hannity, who remains close with Trump, claimed he's “been told” the former president is open to the idea.  —  Right-wing pundits and lawmakers are already rallying around the idea of former President Donald Trump …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump fraud trial live updates: Day 2 begins with testimony from ex-Trump accountant
CNN:   Judge issues gag order and rebukes Trump after social media post attacking his clerk
Ella Lee / The Hill:
New York judge issues gag order after Trump attacks clerk on Truth Social
The Messenger:
Judge Gags Trump After Ex-President Attacks His Law Clerk
Discussion: HotAir
Politico:
McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday  —  The former speaker blasted the move as a “sharp departure from tradition.”
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants  —  First guilty plea in RICO case came Friday  —  Fulton County prosecutors are floating plea deals to a number of defendants in the election interference case involving former President Donald Trump, according to people with knowledge of the proposals.
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ABC News:   Multiple Trump co-defendants approached about plea deals in Fulton County: Sources
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Payday Lenders Get Their Asses Handed To Them During Anti-CFPB Supreme Court Arguments  —  The case to dismantle the CFPB ran into a hammer from the three liberal justices and marked skepticism from at least two of the conservatives.  —  LOADING  —  The case seeking to eviscerate …
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Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Leonard Leo says he will not cooperate with D.C. Attorney General tax probe  —  A liberal group targeted by a similar tax probe said it would comply.  —  Judicial activist Leonard Leo is not cooperating with an investigation by Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
Drugmakers agree to negotiate drug prices with government, White House says  —  The manufacturers of 10 prescription drugs — including Eliquis, Xarelto and Januvia — will take part in the negotiations.  —  Major drug companies including Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb …
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eur-lex.europa.eu:
Notice of initiation of an anti-subsidy proceeding concerning imports of new battery electric vehicles designed for the transport of persons originating in the People's Republic of China  —  The European Commission ('the Commission') initiates on its own initiative an anti-subsidy proceeding pursuant …
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Kari Lake Files to Run for Kyrsten Sinema's Senate Seat in Arizona  —  Ms. Sinema left the Democratic Party last year to become an independent, but has not confirmed whether she will run for re-election.  —  Kari Lake, the Republican former news anchor who refused to acknowledge her loss …
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Scott Dance / Washington Post:
September shattered global heat record — and by a record margin  —  Temperatures around the world last month were at levels closer to normal for July  —  Early analyses show global warmth surged far above previous records in September — even further than what scientists said seemed like astonishing increases in July and August.
Jamie Dettmer / Politico:
Trump is no ghost of the past — he's haunting Ukraine's present  —  Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  —  Europe and Ukraine got a nasty foretaste last week of what a second Donald Trump presidency in the United States would look like.  —  As the former president's …
 
 
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