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9:10 AM ET, October 16, 2023

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Annie Karni / New York Times:
There's Still No House Speaker.  What Happens Now?  —  The House is entering its second week without a speaker.  Here is how a new one could be elected, or how the process could go off the rails yet again.  —  The House is set to return to Washington on Monday with no speaker …
Discussion: CNN, Digby's Hullabaloo and Fox News
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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.
Kadia Goba / Semafor:
Moderate Democrats get behind temporary speaker fix  —  The News  —  With the House still paralyzed in the absence of a speaker, the idea of giving Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry more power to conduct normal business is picking up growing bipartisan support.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Bulwark
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
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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.
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 …
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 …
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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
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Team Twisted His Bank Fraud Trial Into a Farce  —  The former president's lawyers may not be trying to win his New York trial—instead, they're dragging it out in hopes of solving his other political and legal problems.  —  Two weeks into Donald Trump's bank fraud trial in New York …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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.
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 …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Oprah pitched a White House run with Mitt Romney, book reveals … - Romney tells Coppins he dismissed the idea, believing that such a campaign would inadvertently help Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
 
 
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators flummoxed, ‘horrified’ by House leadership vacuum
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NBC News:
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