Simmering tensions between Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) are boiling over as the Florida Republican heightens his threat to oust the GOP leader from his post. The bitterness between the two GOP lawmakers — which stretches back to the Speaker's race in January — hit a fever pitch on Tuesday when Gaetz warned that he would force a vote on taking McCarthy's gavel if the California Republican did not meet a series of demands on spending and legislation. |
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Special counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked a judge to limit the extent former President Trump can discuss his looming trial on charges related to his effort to block the transfer of power in the 2020 election, citing a history of targeting those who "present an obstacle" to him. The order asks federal district court Judge Tanya Chutkan to restrict "certain prejudicial extrajudicial statements" from Trump about the 2020 election case, seeking a "narrow, well-defined restriction" limiting discussion about the testimony or credibility of witnesses in the case, as well as court personnel and jurors. |
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Former President Trump attacked Justice Department (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith after the prosecutor asked for a partial gag order in the trial related to Trump's alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election. "Deranged Jack Smith, he's the prosecutor, he's a deranged person, wants to take away my rights under the First Amendment," Trump said during a speech Friday at the Concerned Women of America conference in Washington. "He wants to take away my right of speaking freely and openly." |
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Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in new court filings sought to justify becoming involved with Georgia's 2020 presidential election by arguing former President Trump had an "unqualified and illimitable right" to change his job responsibilities. Clark, who is charged in Georgia alongside Trump and 17 others over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, heads to court on Monday to convince a judge to move his state prosecution to federal court, which would enable him to attempt to assert immunity. |
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Former President Trump on Friday continued his attack on GOP lawmakers' messaging on abortion, claiming they don't know how to "explain it properly." "A lot of politicians who are pro-life do not know how to discuss this topic," Trump told the audience at the Concerned Women of American conference in Washington, D.C. "And they lose their election. We had a lot of election losses because of this because they didn't know how to discuss it." |
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House Republicans who are veterans and focused on military issues in Congress are publicly voicing their frustration with Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) holds on military promotions. Rep. Brandon Williams (R-N.Y.), who was a nuclear submarine officer for the Navy, revealed in a press conference on Friday that he forced a meeting with Tuberville to talk about a friend with whom he served in the Navy and who is set to take over command of the submarine force. |
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The Florida Republican Party will no longer require candidates to sign a loyalty pledge to qualify for the party's 2024 primary ballot, seen as a major win for former President Trump. The pledge would have bound candidates to support the eventual GOP nominee. Trump has refused similar pledges, including those required for primary debates, citing his large lead in national and state polls. |
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The release of a sex video made by a woman running for a House of Delegates seat in Virginia is roiling the race for the majority in the state's legislative chamber. Susanna Gibson and her husband livestreamed a video of them performing sexual acts on the website Chaturbate and asked viewers to pay them money, The Washington Post reported Monday. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met during a high-stakes meeting in eastern Russia this week, underscoring deep ties and possibly cementing a military support and technology deal the U.S. warns will prolong the war in Ukraine. While no official announcement was made, Western analysts still expect that North Korea and Russia reached an agreement in which Pyongyang will provide Moscow with artillery shells in return for food and critical technology to power nuclear missilles and satellites. |
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BY CHERYL AUSTEIN CASNOFF |
OPINION | The statistics on youth mental health are not only alarming but deeply frightening for anyone who has children or cares about them. According to a 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey, 44.2 percent of the participating teens reported that they had experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Almost 20 percent considered suicide — and9 percent attempted suicide. New reports from the federal government show troubling relationships between social media use and youth mental health, as well as American girls experiencing increasing sadness. |
OPINION | Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent," published in 1988, offered a bracing critique of the American mass media. Herman and Chomsky disputed the cherished self-image of the New York Times and other high-prestige media outlets. To them, these newspapers, magazines and television shows were not brave, independent truth tellers — they were propagandists for the powers that be, actively engaged in filtering out dissenting views, particularly from left-wing critics. The authors wrote that the American media fostered debate only if it remained "faithfully within the system of presuppositions and principles that constitute an elite consensus, a system so powerful as to be internalized largely without awareness." |
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Autoworkers walked off the job Friday at three factories that produce some of the Detroit carmakers' most popular vehicles, the opening salvos in what could become a protracted strike that hurts the U.S. economy and has an impact on the 2024 presidential election. |
"Barbie" just hit streaming platforms. It was on TikTok first. Accounts on the platform are posting episodes of TV shows and full-length films in bite-sized clips that users can watch in a long continuous string. If you search for "Barbie," odds are, you'll be inundated with fan videos and chatter, and won't see any of the clips. But TikTok's algorithms might promote a 90-second snippet of the movie on users' For You pages, with a cryptic title like Part 8. Once users watch a few clips, more and more might turn up. |
BY SAMY MAGDY AND YOUSEF MOURAD |
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a week after the deluge killed more than 11,000 people. |
A year ago, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's morality police sparked a popular uprising, led by women and young people, that rattled the pillars of the Islamic Republic: clerical rule, gender segregation and the security state. |
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