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3:50 PM ET, October 16, 2023

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Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian:
Jim Jordan to force floor vote for House speaker on Tuesday after consolidating Republican support - US politics live  —  Republican hardliner says situation in Israel had changed his earlier stance that he would only call a vote if he had enough votes to win  —  Jordan consolidates support ahead of Tuesday House speaker vote
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Washington Post:
Inside Jim Jordan's uphill battle to win the speaker's gavel  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us. … In today's edition ... What we're watching: Potential Biden trip to Israel …
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Moderate Democrats get behind temporary speaker fix
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.
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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 …
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Team Twisted His Bank Fraud Trial Into a Farce
Discussion: Raw Story and The Messenger
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 …
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Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Justice Department Launches Hate Crime Probe Into Brutal Killing Of Muslim Boy In Illinois
Will County Sheriff's Office:
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP HOMICIDE UPDATE  —  On 10/14/2023 at approximately 11:38 AM …
US Department of Justice:
Attorney General Statement on the Killing of Six-Year-Old Child Wadea Al-Fayoume and Severe Wounding of His Mother Hanaan Shahin in Illinois
Nick Arama / RedState:
More on Disastrous Biden Interview: Scott Pelley Has to Help Him Finish Sentence, Says President ‘Tired’  —  I wrote earlier about a couple of the teaser clips from the “60 Minutes” interview with Joe Biden.  —  Those were bad, but the complete interview was even worse.
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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
Discussion: NPR
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Scott's super PAC cancels TV ad reservations as campaign sputters  —  The super PAC supporting Tim Scott's presidential campaign said Monday it will cancel “all of our Fall media inventory.”  —  The super PAC supporting Tim Scott's presidential bid is canceling most of its remaining TV spending …
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Dasha Burns / NBC News:
Tim Scott super PAC cancels its planned fall ad buy
Associated Press:
Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years  —  The federal government would be barred from immigration policies that separate parents from children for eight years under a proposed court settlement announced Monday that also provides families …
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NBC News:
Biden admin reaches deal with migrants separated from their families under Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:   Court settlement would bar separating migrant families as Trump did
New York Times:
Trump Federal Election Case: Judge Imposes Limited Gag Order on Trump  —  The order pits the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate against the responsibilities of a judge to protect witnesses and to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden campaign to launch account on Trump's Truth Social  —  'There's very little ‘truth’ happening on Truth Social, but at least now it'll be a little fun,' Biden campaign tells Fox News Digital  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Biden campaign is launching an account on former President Trump's Truth Social, Fox News Digital has learned.
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Michigan Poll: Gov. Whitmer Ten Points More Favorable than President Biden in Michigan  —  Home Polls Michigan Poll: Gov. Whitmer Ten Points More Favorable than President Biden in Michigan  —  Trump and Biden Remain in Dead Heat in Potential General Election
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Scholastic's “bigot button”  —  Scholastic, the popular publisher of children's books, is a big business.  It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion.  Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ben Wilson / Washington Free Beacon:
Fourth Iranian Arrested Illegally Crossing US Border This Month  —  U.S. authorities on the southern border have apprehended an Iranian citizen crossing into Texas for the fourth time this month.  —  The Iranians are considered “special interest aliens” because the U.S. government designates Iran a supporter of terrorism.
Discussion: RedState and Fox News
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The GOP refusal to condemn Menendez speaks volumes  —  Public Notice just celebrated its second birthday.  Click the button to take advantage of our special anniversary offer.  —  Click to redeem 2nd anniversary special  —  As a general rule of politics, it should be easy to condemn …
 
 
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Huntsman family, longtime Penn supporters, will halt donations to ‘unrecognizable’ University
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Supreme Court silence on allowing Texas execution is an institutional failure
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Politico:
Yellen says US is not ready to sign global tax treaty just yet
Discussion: Bloomberg
Politico:
Exclusive: N.Y. Working Families Party appoints co-directors
Discussion: Political Wire
Shruti Mahajan / Bloomberg:
India's Top Court to Rule on Same-Sex Marriage Rights
Discussion: Reuters
James Sillars / Sky News:
Janet Yellen: America can certainly afford two wars, US Treasury secretary says
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Isabel Keane / New York Post:
Iran says Hamas ready to release hostages if Israel stops airstrikes as at least 199 now known taken
Amanda Terkel / NBC News:
NBC News to host the third Republican presidential primary debate
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators flummoxed, ‘horrified’ by House leadership vacuum
Washington Post:
Blinken meets resistance in courtship of Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Gaza war
 

 
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