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6:30 AM ET, October 27, 2023

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CBS News:
Rep. Dean Phillips will challenge Biden in Democratic presidential race: “This is an election about the future”  —  Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has decided to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and will launch his 2024 campaign on Friday in New Hampshire …
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Politico:
Mike Johnson pushed the ‘Big Lie.’ But Biden world sees thornier issues ahead.  —  The White House has begun envisioning life with a new speaker — and the path to keeping the government's lights on.  —  The rapid ascension of Rep. Mike Johnson to the House speakership has forced the White House …
New York Times:
Prosecutors Withdraw Second Subpoena in Trump Fund-Raising Inquiry  —  The decision suggests that the special counsel is winding down an investigation into whether the former president's political operation defrauded investors by promoting election lies.  —  Federal prosecutors …
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The Messenger:
Trump Prosecutors Fani Willis and Jack Smith Have Been Keeping Their Distance.  That Might Soon Change.  —  A rash of plea deals in the Fulton County election-racketeering case has yielded fresh statements by three former top Trump election attorneys that may be of interest to federal prosecutors
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Chris Christie on What Mark Meadows Immunity Deal Means for Trump: ‘The Walls Are Closing In Around Him’
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Jenna Ellis and Michael Cohen: What happens when Trump's co-conspirators become his victims
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Maine passed a law to try to prevent mass shootings.  Some say more is needed after Lewiston killings  —  Barely four years before a gunman's deadly rampage in Maine, a state that is staunchly protective of gun rights, the governor signed a law aimed at preventing a mass shooting …
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Washington Post:
Maine's loose gun laws come under scrutiny after deadly shootings
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Family Reveals Suspected Gunman's Link to Maine Massacre Sites
Washington Post:
Maine shootings live updates Manhunt for suspect in 18 deaths continues
Washington Examiner:
Robert Card: What we know about Maine shooting person of interest
HuffPost:
New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is ‘Pointing People To The Truth’  —  An ark replica with dinosaurs “is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.  —  Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago …
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion  —  Mike Johnson is a Christian nationalist with extreme views on guns, reproductive rights, and more.  He's now second in line for the presidency … The Louisiana Republican's record on guns has come under scrutiny …
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Before Mike Johnson Was Speaker, He Was Blaming Abortion for School Shootings
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Republican Speaker Nominee Mike Johnson Has a Plan to Avoid a November Shutdown
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting  —  Five senators who caucus with Democrats joined Republicans in voting to adopt the amendment  —  ROBERT CARD, AN Army reservist with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of killing at least 18 people …
Discussion: Roll Call
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Rep. Jared Golden reverses on assault weapons ban  —  The Maine Democrat says he must take responsibility following the mass shooting in his state and now opposes the weapons.  —  Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), a conservative Democrat, reversed his previously held opposition and said on Thursday …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Is the Republican Speakership Cursed?  Johnson Is About to Find Out.  —  Kevin McCarthy was just the latest in a series of Republican speakers and speaker wannabes who faced revolts.  Speaker Mike Johnson should take note.  —  Republicans didn't have a speaker for 40 years until Newt …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Washington Post:
A barrage and a midair explosion: What visual evidence shows about the Gaza hospital blast  —  Videos analyzed by The Post reveal that rockets were launched from Gaza in the direction of the hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there  —  Fighters in Gaza launched a barrage of rockets toward Israel …
Discussion: BBC and HotAir
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Here's Why Mike Johnson Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump  —  The former president only cares about himself.  The new Speaker of the House actually wants to make America a Christian theocracy. … The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism.  It is Christofascism.
Alex Tabet / NBC News:
Donald Trump Jr. goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Iowa appearance  —  The former president's son spoke in Iowa Thursday, with less than three months to go until the first-in-the-nation caucuses.  —  URBANDALE, Iowa — It was junior-on-junior warfare at former President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
Peter Dickinson / Atlantic Council:
Arming Ukraine is cheap compared to the far higher price of Russian victory  —  Search Suggestions  — {{ suggestion }}  —  Total Results {{ currentCount }}/{{ totalCount }}  —  LOAD MORE  — ISSUES  — REGION  — FOCUS  —  How much longer can the West afford to continue supporting Ukraine?
Kennedy24:
Intruder Arrested Twice Wednesday at RFK, Jr.'s Home  —  On Wednesday an intruder was arrested after climbing a fence at the residence of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  —  Protectors from Gavin de Becker & Associates (GDBA) detected and detained the intruder, who asked to see the candidate.
Washington Post:
Charlottesville's Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace  —  Melted down in secret, the divisive Confederate monument will be turned into a new piece of public art … SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee.  But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too.
Adriana Gomez Licon / Associated Press:
DeSantis says he's sending weapons to Israel in move that could bolster him in the GOP primary  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he's arranged to send drones, weapons, and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas' attack.
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Judge Rejects Bryan Kohberger's Request to Dismiss Idaho Murders Case  —  The University of Idaho stabbing suspect's lawyers had argued the grand jury indictment against him should be dismissed, citing bias and prosecutorial misconduct.  —  Bryan Kohberger lost a long-shot bid to get the murder case …
Susan Walsh / Washington Examiner:
Israel War: John Kirby blasts reporter over criticism of US response to Gaza death figures  —  National Security Council spokesman John Kirby blasted a reporter for asking a question critical of President Joe Biden's response to the war in Gaza.  —  Referencing remarks where Biden said he had …
 
 
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NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files censure resolution accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of inciting an insurrection
Riley Rogerson / The Daily Beast:
New York Republicans Offer Motion to Expel George Santos From Congress
John Hudson / Washington Post:
U.S., Qatar to revisit Doha's ties to Hamas after Gaza hostage crisis
Discussion: Foreign Policy
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The Guardian:
‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch's network
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Numerous verified X accounts are claiming that the Maine mass shootings were a “false flag”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge throws out Georgia's redistricting, orders new political maps
 

 
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