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2:10 PM ET, October 13, 2023

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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.
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Axios
Washington Post:
Live updates House speakership stalled as Scalise withdraws from race
CNN:
Steve Scalise drops out of speaker's race as House GOP faces leadership crisis
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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Kim Kardashian
Washington Post:
How 91 felony charges boosted Trump's standing in the GOP
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
Eric Albeen / Fox News:
Former President Trump on Israel, Speaker's race, Nikki Haley & RFK, Jr.
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.
Financial Times:
Residents flee Gaza City as Israel tells 1.1mn to leave
Wall Street Journal:
Latest Death Tolls in Israel and Gaza
Associated Press:
Israel-Hamas war: Strikes devastate Gaza as Israel prepares for possible ground assault
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 …
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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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.
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.”
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
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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CNN:
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden team launches organizing pilot project in Wisconsin and Arizona
Discussion: Associated Press and Balloon Juice
Barbara McQuade / MSNBC:
Jack Smith tells Trump to put up or shut up
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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