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8:35 AM ET, October 16, 2023

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CNN:
Senior House Republican says GOP members ready to block Jordan  —  A number of House Republicans are in talks to block Rep. Jim Jordan's path to the speakership as the Ohio Republican tries to force a floor vote on Tuesday, according to multiple GOP sources.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Turner: If GOP can't elect Speaker then ‘deal will have to be done’ with Democrats  —  Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said Sunday if House Republicans cannot elect a Speaker soon then a “deal will have to be done” with Democrats in order to get the chamber running again, as it nears two weeks since …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza  —  While the president has stood strongly behind Israel since Hamas attacked, he said on “60 Minutes” that a new occupation of Gaza would “be a big mistake.”  —  President Biden warned Israel in an interview aired on Sunday not to reoccupy Gaza …
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
President Joe Biden: The 2023 60 Minutes interview transcript  —  Rarely does a president confront so much peril; the catastrophe in Israel—the war in Ukraine—and no help from a paralyzed Congress.  Late Thursday, we met President Biden at the White House.  It had been a rough week and we could see it on him.
Politico:
Playbook: How the attack on Israel has scrambled U.S. politics  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Q3 CASH-ON-HAND LEADERBOARD — JOE BIDEN $24,785,201 ... DONALD TRUMP $24,535,602 ... RON DeSANTIS $11,160,604 ... ROBERT KENNEDY JR. $8,713,134 …
Discussion: Punchbowl News
Washington Post:
Live updates Judge to hear argument over Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case  —  Special counsel Jack Smith's office is in federal court in D.C. today asking for a gag order that would bar former president Donald Trump from maligning the judge, prosecutors, witnesses and potential jurors in his election obstruction case.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump faces reckoning as D.C. judge mulls gag order  —  At a court hearing Monday, a judge will consider special counsel Jack Smith's demand that Trump be formally ordered to stop attacking potential witnesses against him.  —  Can Donald Trump be gagged?  —  That's the question at the heart …
Niha Masih / Washington Post:
Israel-Gaza war live updates  —  Gaza residents flee south as Israel prepares for ‘next stages of war’  —  Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza are fleeing in buses, cars and on foot, crowding onto narrow roads leading south after Israel's evacuation warning.
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Washington Post:
Blinken meets resistance in courtship of Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Gaza war  —  The secretary of state appealed to the leaders of the two key countries to tamp down anger over Israel's retaliation and to assist in humanitarian aid  —  CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced stiff resistance …
ABC7:
Man targeted 6-year-old boy, mom in deadly Plainfield stabbing because they are Muslim: detectives  —  ‘You Muslims must die’: 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba facing hate crime charges in death of Palestinian boy Wadea Al-Fayoume  —  PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) — A man stabbed a child to death …
Jan Cienski / Politico:
Opposition wins Polish election, according to exit poll  —  WARSAW — Poland's opposition parties look like they've won a solid victory in the country's general election — and if the result holds it signals a radical change both in Poland and in the EU, where the current Law and Justice …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden  —  Jill and I were shocked and sickened to learn of the brutal murder of a six-year-old child and the attempted murder of the child's mother in their home yesterday in Illinois.  —  The child's Palestinian Muslim family came to America seeking what we all seek …
Discussion: USA Today, Politico, The Messenger and UPI
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Climate Advocacy Group Plans to Spend $80 Million on Ads to Aid Biden  —  Climate Power says the lack of awareness and understanding of the president's record on environmental issues is hurting him in the polls.  —  Climate Power, a liberal advocacy group, plans to spend $80 million …
Politico:
Boebert spent campaign cash at Beetlejuice boyfriend's bar  —  The Colorado congresswoman dropped a few hundred bucks at Hooch, a place that hosts drag shows.  —  Well before Rep. Lauren Boebert and her date got thrown out of a local theater showing of Beetlejuice for being disruptive and frisky …
 
 
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NBC News:
Supplemental funding request for aid to Israel and Ukraine could come this week
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOPer cut off by CNN host for anti-immigrant rant when asked about Gaza refugees
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Biden, DNC raise $71 million in third quarter
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