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Republican efforts to enhance their appeal with minority voters suffered a series of setbacks this week when a pair of GOP lawmakers made racially explosive comments, stirring immediate condemnation from civil rights groups and threatening to muddy the party's message of big-tent inclusivity. House Republican leaders have spent much of the year highlighting the party's advances in recruiting women and minorities, linking a diverse slate of candidates to their success in flipping control of the lower chamber last year. And they retain high hopes of expanding on those gains in the 2024 elections. |
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Nearly every week features a familiar plotline for the House Republican conference: Right-flank pressure spurs last-minute scrambles that appear to put Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) and GOP leaders in peril – before they squeak out a compromise or victory. In the latest episode, the House Freedom Caucus's push to add culture war amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) tanked Democratic support for the normally bipartisan bill — but won over enough hardline conservatives that Republicans passed it without needing Democratic help. |
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The House passed its version of the annual defense policy bill on Friday, with four Democrats and four Republicans bucking their parties on the high-profile vote. The chamber approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a large party-line 219-210 vote, an unusual outcome for the must-pass measure that typically receives bipartisan support. |
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The White House on Friday slammed congressional Republicans for "hijacking" the annual defense policy bill and loading it up with conservative amendments related to abortion, transgender rights and other issues, arguing it will undermine national security. "Holding America's military readiness – as well as service members and their families – hostage to an extreme, divisive political agenda undermines our national security and disrespects the sacrifices that those who wear the uniform," deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
A three-judge appeals court panel on Friday issued a brief pause of a lower court ruling that limited the Biden administration's communication with social media companies over free speech concerns. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued an administrative stay that takes effect until further notice. A separate panel will later consider the Justice Department's motion to issue a longer pause that would run through the administration's appeal. |
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Friday signed Iowa's new abortion ban into law, effectively outlawing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. The ban will take effect immediately, further eroding abortion access across the Midwest, where it is already extremely limited. |
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) acknowledged on Friday that he "had a lot of supporters who were averse to me" on the six-week abortion ban he signed into law earlier this year. "As President, I will be somebody who will use the bully pulpit to support governors like [Iowa Gov.] Kim Reynolds when she's got a bill, other states as they advance the cause of life. It is a critical issue, and it's one I'm happy to have done," DeSantis told former Fox New host Tucker Carlson during the Family Leadership Summit event in Iowa, referring to Reynolds' recently signed a six-week abortion ban. |
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While Pell Grants will soon give access to free college for more than 760,000 inmates under an expansion announced this month, experts warn of inequities and difficulties that will plague incarcerated individuals looking for a degree. Prison education programs are shown to lower recidivism and boost employment opportunities, and, for the first time since 1994, incarcerated Americans are now eligible for Pell Grants while they serve their time if their facility has access to education programs and they get chosen in the highly competitive process. |
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson aggressively pressed former Vice President Mike Pence Friday about how he'd characterize the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol, forced the evacuation of lawmakers and interrupted the counting of electoral votes in the 2020 election. The questioning by Carlson, who described the events of Jan. 6 as "mostly peaceful chaos" while at Fox News, underscored how Pence's break with former President Trump that day will be a defining feature of his campaign. |
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Tucker Carlson's interview with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who faces charges of human trafficking and rape in Romania, is highlighting an effort on the far-right to redefine traditional values. Tate sat with Carlson for a two-and-a-half-hour interview published Tuesday on Twitter, where the pair opined on a wide range of topics, including society's purported push to put "the woman in charge, and the man below with no backbone." |
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BY SEN. MIKE BRAUN (R-IND.) | OPINION | Over the weekend, President Biden let slip in an interview that the United States' munitions stockpile has dwindled so much that we will now be sending controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine to aid their ongoing fight against Russia. Washington's establishment quickly took sides in a debate over whether cluster munitions — which can go undetonated for years after a conflict ends only to explode in the innocent hands of a civilian — were ethical or the proper method to kill Russians. |
OPINION | Now that the Fourth of July mattress sales have closed down and the last flames caused by errant fireworks have been snuffed, Americans should reflect on whether the self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence — that all men are created equal and endowed with certain "unalienable rights" — have actually been realized. An honest assessment would disclose that America has made progress, but it has been a back-and-forth struggle since the first slaves set foot on North American soil. |
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Representative Jen Kiggans, a minivan-driving mom and Navy veteran, narrowly won election last year in her suburban Virginia swing district after a fiercely competitive race that focused on her opposition to abortion rights. |
Pentagon officials are attempting to stay on the sidelines of an intensifying feud over annual defense legislation that has highlighted the military's vulnerability to being pulled into America's most divisive social issues. |
Dramatically escalating a bitter labor battle that has already brought Hollywood to a virtual standstill, thousands of striking film and television actors took to the streets Friday to fight for better pay and job protections in an industry that has been upended by the rise of streaming. |
BY SCOTT PATTERSON, JENNIFER HILLER AND ALYSSA LUKPAT |
Heat waves stretching across large parts of the globe are straining power grids and shutting businesses that can't keep their workers cool. Some of the hardest-hit areas will face hotter temperatures in the coming days, forecasters say, adding to risks that infrastructure will fail. |
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