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Politico:
Fear and loathing grips the House GOP — While Republicans appear to be turning next to Jim Jordan, some are already airing open doubts that he can pull off what the majority leader couldn't. — The House GOP has entered an angrier and more bewildered phase in its leadership crisis.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Bipartisan talk grows as GOP fails to find a speaker — Lawmakers in both parties are expressing growing openness, both in public and in private, to a bipartisan deal to elect a House speaker as Republicans are continually thwarted in their efforts to do it alone.
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Politico:
House GOP rejects — again — bid to avoid messy speaker fight on the floor — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is now the only declared candidate for the GOP's nod, but he remains short of the support needed to win.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
House GOP in total chaos: So much for fascist order and discipline! — Aren't far-right movements supposed to make the trains run on time? GOP can't elect a speaker from its own tribe — Nearly eight decades after the end of World War II, the thing we ought to understand most clearly …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Axios
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Jim Jordan's House Speaker Bid Challenged by Austin Scott
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The Hill, Fox News, ABC News, The Daily Caller and American Greatness
Politico:
Playbook: The House GOP sinks deeper into chaos
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
With the World in Crisis, House Republicans Bicker Among Themselves
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CNN:
Steve Scalise drops out of speaker's race as House GOP faces leadership crisis
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
Will Narcissist Trump's Bizarre Praise for Hezbollah Hurt Him? — DONALD TRUMP HAS DEMONSTRATED YET AGAIN that he is a man without a single ounce of human decency. At an event in West Palm Beach on Wednesday night, just four days after Hamas's brutal attack on Israeli civilians, Trump did the unthinkable.
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Israeli War Insight — He attacks Netanyahu in a crisis because of old personal grudges. — The front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination for some reason used the words “smart” and “Hezbollah” in the same sentence on Wednesday night.
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Washington Post:
Fraudster freed from prison by Trump faces prosecution under Biden — Philip Esformes received clemency from Trump in the final weeks of his presidency after well-connected supporters pushed for his release. — Philip Esformes beat the system. Or so it seemed.
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Raw Story and Kim Kardashian
Washington Post:
How 91 felony charges boosted Trump's standing in the GOP
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The Messenger and Raw Story
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's turn against Israel offers stark reminder of what his diplomacy looks like
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New York Times, Politico, Fox News, Raw Story, IJR and Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Israel orders unprecedented evacuation of 1 million in Gaza as possible ground offensive looms — Gaza's energy crisis risk hospitals turning into morgues — Israel Defense Forces release footage of assault on Gaza-adjacent outpost — Israel's military told some 1 million Palestinians …
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Reuters:
Hamas tells Gaza residents to stay home as Israel ground offensive looms — Mosques and Hamas officials told Gaza Strip residents to stay in their homes on Friday, in defiance of an Israeli military call for more than a million civilians to move south within 24 hours in the build-up to its expected ground offensive.
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Associated Press:
Hamas practiced in plain sight, posting video of mock attack weeks before border breach
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The Hill, Financial Times and The Messenger
Financial Times:
Residents flee Gaza City as Israel tells 1.1mn to leave
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Associated Press:
Israel-Hamas war: Strikes devastate Gaza as Israel prepares for possible ground assault
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CNN:
US intelligence warned of potential for Gaza clash in days before attack — The US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel warning the Biden administration of an increased risk for Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the weeks ahead …
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The Gateway Pundit, Wall Street Journal, The Hill and RedState
Politico:
Even with last-minute challenger, Jordan poised to move toward speaker's gavel — Republicans are meeting to hear directly from Jordan and Rep. Austin Scott, who threw his hat into the ring just before the close-door meeting
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Joe.My.God., UPI, Crooks and Liars and Middle East Monitor
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
DeSantis, voter have heated exchange over Gaza bombings: 'You had my vote, but you don't now' — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a 2024 presidential candidate, had a heated exchange with a voter over Israel's airstrikes in Gaza after Hamas militants launched a deadly attack against Israel last weekend.
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The Messenger, Mediaite and Florida Politics
Axios:
Exclusive video — Bush on Bibi: “We'll find out what he's made of” — Mike Allen- Zachary Basu- Barak Ravid — Video — On video obtained by Axios, former President George W. Bush — in his first comments about the attack on Israel — warned that the expected Israeli ground offensive in Gaza is “going to be ugly for a while.”
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Justices Avoid Falling Chunk Of Marble In Courtyard — Democratic institutions in D.C. are literally crumbling, apparently. — LOADING — The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a piece of marble at least 2 feet long crashed to the ground …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 12, 2023 — We are in a bizarre moment. — If the U.S. government were operating within its normal parameters, my first story tonight would be about new federal charges that Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was acting as an agent of Egypt while chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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