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Politico:
How Trump was talked into — and out of — a run for speaker — A behind-the-scenes campaign coaxed the former president out of a quixotic campaign. — Just hours after Kevin McCarthy was deposed as House speaker, the “draft Trump” movement began. — “I called him and I said, 'Sir …
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The Messenger:
How a Texas Congressman ‘Totally F—d’ Trump's House Speaker Race Strategy (Exclusive) — According to one adviser, the former president is ‘pissed’ at Rep. Troy Nehls — A Facebook icon representing an external link to share the article on Facebook.A Twitter icon representing an external link …
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Team Trump readies attacks on RFK Jr. as spoiler anxiety grows — The News — Members of Donald Trump's team are quietly preparing to go on offense against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as internal campaign polling suggests his expected third party bid could draw more votes from Trump than President Joe Biden in a general election.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Inside Trump's earlier secret bid for House speaker as McCarthy nomination drama unfolded — From ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl's upcoming book. — Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at the South Carolina State House, Jan. 28, 2023 in Columbia, SC.
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Madeline Coggins / Fox News:
Scalise makes House speaker pitch after Trump endorses Jordan: I know how to ‘unify’
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Jim Jordan, Who's Running For Speaker, Played A Key Role In Trump's 2020 Election Plot
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Tori Otten / New Republic:
Trump Loves Sharing National Security Secrets With Random Strangers
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Kevin McCarthy considers resigning from the House before the end of his term — The deposed former speaker has made clear he plans to stay at least through the speakership election before ending his House career, two people familiar with the matter tell POLITICO.
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Daniella Diaz / Politico:
Is the speaker pro tempore acting up? — Presented by With assists from POLITICO's Congress team — PARSING PATRICK'S POWERS — The word “unprecedented” often gets bandied about in politics for things that are actually just uncommon. What's happening now in the House, however, is truly unprecedented.
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CNN:
McCarthy denies reports he's leaving Congress
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Congressman Tom Mcclintock:
Statement by Congressman Tom McClintock on the Speakers Impasse
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NBC News:
Trump trial Day 5 highlights: Ex-Trump executive says Allen Weisselberg asked for help in committing tax fraud — Trump's New York civil fraud trial wraps up its first week … 25m ago / 9:41 PM UTC — Appeals court stays cancellation of Trump biz certificates — By Dareh Gregorian, Adam Reiss and Lisa Rubin
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CNBC:
Trump loses bid to stay NY fraud trial, but gets delay of business certificate cancellations — A New York appeals court declined to stay the civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump. — But the court did halt a judge's order that cancelled the business certificates of Trump's companies.
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CNN:
New York appeals court halts the process of breaking up Trump's businesses but rejects stopping the trial — A New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump's attempt to stop the ongoing $250 million civil fraud trial, but temporarily halted the process of breaking up the former president's businesses.
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Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Donald Trump's lawyers seek to halt civil fraud trial and block ruling disrupting real estate empire
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Judge Who Doomed His Company
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Hakeem Jeffries / Washington Post:
A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House — Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) is the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives. — In recent days, Democrats have tried to show our colleagues in the Republican majority a way out of the dysfunction and rancor they have allowed to engulf the House.
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Washington Post:
The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash — A reconstruction of the wreck shows how human error and emerging technology can collide with deadly results — The sun had yet to rise in Delray Beach, Fla., when Jeremy Banner flicked on Autopilot.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Michael Benz, a rising voice for conservative criticism of online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona — Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories. Inadvertent slips revealed details about his identity.
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Raw Story
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
America needs to talk about the right's ‘Red Caesar’ plan for U.S. dictatorship — The incredible scenes this week on Capitol Hill — leaving the U.S. House without a speaker and promising an autumn of sheer chaos in Congress — marked a rapid escalation of the downward spiral of American democracy.
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US Department of Justice:
Former Soldier Indicted for Attempting to Pass National Defense Information to People's Republic of China — For Immediate Release — Defendant Arrested Upon Arrival in San Francisco on Flight from Hong Kong — A former U.S. Army Sergeant whose last duty post was Joint Base Lewis-McChord …
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Iowa police dispute Ramaswamy campaign's claim that protesters rammed their car — “Our investigation has revealed no evidence to substantiate” the claim that protesters hit Ramaswamy's car on purpose and fled, police said. — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign claimed Thursday …
Ben Feuerherd / The Messenger:
New York v. Trump on Day Five: Company Exec Testifies About Mar-a-Lago and Eric Trump's Golf Club Directive to ‘Leave Value as Is’ — The former controller of the Trump Organization revealed over-valuations of key real estate properties including the so-called ‘winter White House’
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Katie Herchenroeder / Mother Jones:
Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell. — This week, hundreds of delegates from around the world began a monthlong meeting as part of Pope Francis' “Synod on Synodality”—a gathering to discuss the future of the Catholic Church.
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Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:
Moms for Liberty Is Taking Over Banned Books Week — It's the American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week, a tradition that started in 1982. This year, the theme is “Let Freedom Read!” in honor of record-breaking efforts to censor books now sweeping the nation's libraries and schools.
Talking Points Memo:
We've Finally Solved The Mystery Of George Santos' Mysterious Fortune — The world knows a lot about Rep. George Santos (R-NY). His backstory is full of lies and his campaign finance reports were studded with extraordinary irregularities. However, amid a cascade of revelations …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
‘Jan. 6 choir’ member sentenced to 7 years in Capitol attack — A man who joined a nightly performance of the national anthem inside the D.C. jail that has been promoted by former president Donald Trump and his allies was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting police and obstructing Congress on Jan. 6.
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Associated Press
Politico:
Pharmacies begin dispensing abortion pills — A handful of pharmacies are offering the pills 10 months after the Biden administration allowed them to do so. — A handful of independent pharmacies across the country have quietly begun dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone under …
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NBC News:
Biden defends administration's move to extend border wall — Illegal border crossings are averaging more than 9,000 per day in just the last week, border officials tell NBC News. The Biden administration will expand the border wall with the president saying he had “no choice” …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect ‘Democracy’ … Most Americans who oppose Donald Trump agree the threat to democracy is the major issue of the 2024 election. But what, precisely, constitutes the threat? To most Democrats, the danger is that the election will install into power …
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Washington Examiner
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
33 Lawmakers Urge Biden To Release Leonard Peltier — Including 1 Republican — We must “hold our government accountable when we see a case of injustice,” they said of the Indigenous activist who has been in prison for nearly 50 years. — LOADING — Nearly three dozen members of Congress …
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