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9:50 AM ET, October 22, 2023

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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker urges Republicans to sign unity pledge to back eventual Speaker nominee  —  Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) is urging his caucus to vote together as chaos over the House Speakership continues, launching a unity pledge for lawmakers to commit to a single candidate.
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New York Times:
Meet the Republicans Running for Speaker  —  The lawmakers vying for the job include veterans of the House, committee chairmen, a top member of Republican leadership and a sophomore.  —  At least 10 Republicans have announced that they will run for speaker or that they are considering doing so since Friday …
Discussion: Washington Times
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
What to know about Speaker candidate Kevin Hern  —  The House GOP is in chaos amid attempts to elect a Speaker after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) lost his third attempt at securing the gavel in a floor vote Friday.  —  Nine congressmen have stepped up for the job, or have signaled …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Free Press:
Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found dead outside her home  —  A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed dead this morning outside her home in the city's Lafayette Park neighborhood, east of downtown.  —  Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue …
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CNN:
President of Detroit synagogue found stabbed to death outside home, police say  —  The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead Saturday morning with multiple stab wounds outside her home, police said.  —  The victim, Samantha Woll, was the president of the board …
Post and Courier:
One GOP candidate can defeat Trump.  Clear the field for Haley.  —  Donald Trump won the GOP nomination in 2016 not because he was the choice of most Republican primary voters; he was not.  He won because, in a crowded field, he got more votes than any of his rivals in South Carolina, and then in later-voting states.
Discussion: Fox News
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Politico:
'I'm disappointed': Even Tim Scott's friends and fans see a campaign on the ropes  —  Scott's polling is down, his super PAC is in retreat and his hometown newspaper is cheering on Nikki Haley instead.  —  Tim Scott's old friend and former colleague in the Senate, Cory Gardner, kept pleading with him to get on TV more.
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
More Bad News for Trump  —  It turns out it wasn't just a bad day for Trump, as I captioned my column Thursday night.  It was a bad week.  A really bad week.  —  After Sidney Powell's guilty plea, there was Kenneth Chesebro's plea.  His was to a felony charge of filing false information …
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U.S. Department of Defense:
Statement From Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Steps to Increase Force Posture  —  Following detailed discussions with President Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a series of additional steps to further strengthen …
Nick Fagge / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli morgue worker says horrors inflicted on Hamas's victims are ‘worse than the Holocaust’ including decapitated pregnant woman and her beheaded unborn child  — Shari says the atrocities committed by Hamas are ‘worse than the Holocaust’  — She and her team spend 12 hours a day cleaning mutilated corpses
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Google owes executive $1 million after losing gender bias lawsuit … A jury found Google guilty of sexual discrimination and awarded female Google Cloud executive Ulku Rowe, who filed the complaint, $1.1 million.  Rowe's lawsuit alleged that the company gave higher pay to less-experienced male cohorts …
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Roya Rateshtari / usmarshals.gov:
U.S. Marshals Searching for Fugitive Wanted for the Murder of a State Judge  —  Pedro Manuel Argote now the target of an interstate manhunt  —  For Immediate Release  —  District of Maryland  —  (410) 362-7550  —  Baltimore, MD - The U.S. Marshals Service is seeking the public's assistance …
Reuters:
Australia PM to visit China, reaches deal to resolve WTO wine dispute  —  Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he would travel to China from Nov. 4 to 7 to meet with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang, with the aim of ensuring a “stable and productive” relationship between the two countries.
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
 
 
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Associated Press:
Egypt's border crossing opens to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into besieged Gaza
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Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
AP visual analysis: Rocket from Gaza appeared to go astray, likely caused deadly hospital explosion
Discussion: The Times of Israel and Twitchy
Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Leading Democrats need to go to the White House to ask Biden and Harris to step aside
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Elderly and Imprisoned: 'I Don't Count It as Living, Only Existing.'
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, after a long courtship; the lobbying group's other members are Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, and WBD

Sean Hollister / The Verge:
YouTube says it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers” after a “strong advertiser and strong viewer response” and piloting Pause ads from 2023

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Economist introduces AI translations into French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish for Espresso, its budget-friendly, “snack-sized” journalism app
 
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