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11:40 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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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
Dean Phillips Is Primarying Joe Biden  —  The Minnesota congressman's presidential bid could energize the Democratic Party—or gift the presidency to Donald Trump.  —  To spend time around Dean Phillips, as I have since his first campaign for Congress in 2018, is to encounter someone so earnest as to be utterly suspicious.
Politico:
Playbook: What Dean Phillips will say in New Hampshire  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WELCOME TO THE NFL — “'One of his early tests': New speaker confronts GOP divide on abortion,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Meredith Lee Hill
Politico:
Mike Johnson pushed the ‘Big Lie.’ But Biden world sees thornier issues ahead.
NBC News:
Judge orders Ivanka Trump to testify in $250 million fraud case  —  Judge Arthur Engoron agreed with the AG's office that her testimony is necessary, even though she's no longer a defendant in the case.  —  The judge overseeing the $250 million civil trial against Donald Trump and his company ordered …
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
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Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
Trump Civil Fraud Trial Turns To Question Of Whether Ivanka Trump Will Have To Testify  —  It's unclear how soon Judge Arthur Engoron will decide, or when Ivanka Trump would testify if ordered to do so.  —  LOADING  —  Days after former President Donald Trump got a taste of the witness stand …
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Hearings begin as Trump critics attempt to kick him off ballots  —  Lawsuits in Colorado and Minnesota center on the 14th Amendment, which bars those who engage in an insurrection from running for office  —  In two courtrooms 900 miles apart, judges next week will begin to weigh an unprecedented …
Discussion: Reuters, CNN, The Hill, Raw Story and NBC News
Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner:
Tlaib is the very threat to democracy Democrats warned about  —  For about six years, Democratic politicians and pundits have promoted the phrase “threat to our democracy.”  It was entirely based on constructing a political narrative through fearmongering propaganda meant to brainwash …
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Vanishing Act: Why Trump Rallies Are Going Extinct  —  Trump has been holding about two rallies per month.  That's way down from his previous campaigns, like in 2016 when he held 323 rallies, or 70 rallies during COVID. … Vanishing Act  —  DERRY, New Hampshire …
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
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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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Jenna Ellis's long, strange trip to disgrace  —  In court, she's contrite.  On social media?  Not so much. … On November 19, 2020, Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis stood on the stage at the RNC flanked by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and vowed that “an elite strikeforce team” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Katelyn Fossett / Politico:
‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’  —  A Q&A with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on the Christian nationalist ideas that shaped House Speaker Mike Johnson.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson, a Shreveport, Louisiana, native, entered politics after spending …
Punchbowl News:
NRCC chair dishes on Johnson  —  THE TOP … He's bringing his longtime chief of staff Hayden Haynes to work in the speaker's office.  And the new speaker is busy searching for a top foreign policy aide, a member services director and a policy director.  —  Yet maybe no organ …
U.S. Department of Defense:
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Statement on U.S. Military Strikes in Eastern Syria  —  Today, at President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces conducted self-defense strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
Make Mike Johnson Famous  —  If Republicans vote for a medieval insurrectionist, and nobody knows, does it count?  —  I had hoped, without really expecting, that the 20-plus member GOP rebellion against Jim Jordan's efforts to shove himself down their throats would bloom into a greater struggle …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Congress' Job Approval Drops to 13%, Lowest Since 2017  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid a prolonged search for a new House speaker that paralyzed the House of Representatives for three weeks while two U.S. allies are engaged in wars, Americans' approval of Congress' job performance fell from 17% to 13%.
Associated Press:
Former Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters is running for Congress  —  Masters, a venture capitalist, lost a race last year against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.  —  PHOENIX — Republican Blake Masters, who lost to Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in last year's midterm election …
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
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 …
Emily Ngo / Politico:
One-way plane tickets: NYC offers migrants free travel anywhere to move  —  New York City is moving migrants out of shelters and offering them plane tickets to anywhere in the world.  —  NEW YORK — Here's one approach to discourage migrants from settling in New York City: Give them a free, one-way plane ticket out of town.
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
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Targets Additional Sources of Support and Financing to Hamas  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a second round of sanctions on key Hamas-linked officials and financial networks following the October 7 barbaric attacks …
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.
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 …
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: ABC News and Roll Call
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: The Messenger and KGET 17
Haley Britzky / CNN:
Pentagon says 900 US troops have deployed or are deploying to Middle East amid heightened tensions  —  Roughly 900 US troops have been deployed or are deploying to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region after a series of attacks on coalition bases that resulted in minor injuries for almost two dozen troops.
 
 
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The White House:
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard, and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby
Discussion: Breitbart, UPI and Politico
NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files censure resolution accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of inciting an insurrection
Associated Press:
Maine passed a law to try to prevent mass shootings. Some say more is needed after Lewiston killings
Peter Dickinson / Atlantic Council:
Arming Ukraine is cheap compared to the far higher price of Russian victory
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Rep. Jared Golden reverses on assault weapons ban
 Earlier Items: 
Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
White House slams ‘grotesque’ displays of antisemitism on college campuses
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Larry Elder drops out of 2024 GOP primary, backs Trump
Riley Rogerson / The Daily Beast:
New York Republicans Offer Motion to Expel George Santos From Congress
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion
Adriana Gomez Licon / Associated Press:
DeSantis says he's sending weapons to Israel in move that could bolster him in the GOP primary
 

 
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