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He got the gavel. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) became the 55th Speaker of the House in the midnight hour on Saturday, ending a historic four-day, 15-ballot stalemate caused by a group of 20 hardline conservative members — and fulfilling the California Republican's longtime goal. |
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BY AL WEAVER, MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
The bitter battle to confirm Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as House Speaker is finally over and the groundwork has been laid for the 118th Congress. |
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House lawmakers took their oaths of office early Saturday morning, shortly after the days-long Speaker standoff came to a close with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) securing the gavel. |
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BY AL WEAVER, MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) praised former President Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for pushing him over the finish line and helping him secure the gavel. |
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BY AMIE PARNES AND HANNA TRUDO |
President Biden's reelection campaign is preparing to launch. |
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If President Biden opts to follow in the footsteps of his recent predecessors, he could wait until the spring to announce he's running for reelection. |
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House Democrats — and one Republican — paused for a brief but emotional ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. |
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A federal judge has ordered attorneys for former President Trump to provide the government with the names of the private investigators he hired to search for classified documents at his properties. |
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A panel of federal judges on Friday ruled that South Carolina lawmakers racially gerrymandered the state's 1st Congressional District specifically to dilute the power of Black voters. |
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The final jobs report of 2022 showed U.S. employment growth slowing under the weight of higher interest rates and stubborn inflation, but not enough to derail a historically strong labor market. |
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OPINION | How ironic that Kevin McCarthy, a former whip of the Republican House – the guy whose job it is to herd the cats – cannot bring his raucous caucus to elect him Speaker. |
OPINION | The recent rise in Medicaid enrollment is one of the most remarkable expansions of a welfare program in U.S. history. Because of reckless government policies, 90.9 million Americans are now enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). That's an increase of more than 20 million compared to February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a significant public health problem in the United States. |
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WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy's historically long slog to become speaker of the House has made one thing abundantly clear: The United States should brace for the likelihood of a Congress in perpetual disarray for the next two years. |
BY MARY ILYUSHINA AND MARY GELMAN |
As Russian President Vladimir Putin steers Russia toward becoming a closed-off, conservative society, ruled by "traditional values" and bound tightly to the Orthodox Church, with visions of a "Russian world" in opposition to the decadent, amoral West, the Russian parliament has expanded Moscow's official discrimination against gays and others of non-heterosexual orientations. |
The disarray that engulfed Southwest Airlines this holiday season left observers as bewildered as the carrier's hapless passengers. How could Southwest—whose consistent profitability, efficient service and low prices once made it the exemplar of skillful airline management—melt down so disastrously? In the coming years, the business school professoriate will publish case studies. Politicians and regulators will have their say. I have some modest personal experience to share that might help to explain it. |
LONDON (AP) — Bereaved boy, troubled teen, wartime soldier, unhappy royal — many facets of Prince Harry are revealed in his explosive memoir, often in eyebrow-raising detail. |
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