BY EMILY BROOKS AND ARIS FOLLEY |
House Republicans are struggling with the same battles over government funding that led to the chaotic unseating of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), seemingly cutting any honeymoon short for new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). GOP leadership this week yanked two spending bills from the floor amid disputes on spending and other controversial policy items. With a government funding deadline less than a week away, the conference seems hopelessly divided on how to avert a shutdown. |
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) filed a judicial ethics complaint Friday against the New York judge overseeing former President Trump's civil fraud trial, claiming the judge has shown "inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance" toward the former president and calling on him to resign. Judge Arthur Engoron has displayed a "clear judicial bias" against Trump and broken "several rules" in the state's judicial conduct code, Stefanik wrote in a letter to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. |
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Fewer and fewer people are watching the GOP's presidential debates, raising sharper questions about their relevance in a cycle where the party's front-runner, former President Donald Trump, is skipping them. Fewer than 7 million people tuned in for this week's debate, where Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis both got solid reviews for their performances. |
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Republican Presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis announced they each raised more than $1 million in the 24 hours after the third GOP debate Wednesday. Filings from the third fundraising quarter came in last month and gave an idea of how campaigns are faring with about a year to go until next November's election. |
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GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has decided to capitalize on former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley's "scum" comments by selling merchandise on his website. Ramaswamy, 38, called out Haley's daughter during the third GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday in Miami for using TikTok, after the former South Carolina governor "made fun" of him for joining it himself. In response, Haley blasted the 38-year-old entrepreneur by saying "you're just scum." |
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Israel's war in Gaza is raising questions over how the coastal enclave should be managed once the fighting is over, exposing a growing divide between U.S. and Israeli officials on the issue. Several U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have said Israel should not occupy Gaza and the strip must be run by Palestinians. |
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Former President Trump suggested in a new interview that the war between Israel and Hamas will just have to "play out" despite concerns about rising civilian casualties. "So you have a war that's going on, and you're probably going to have to let this play out. You're probably going to have to let it play out because a lot of people are dying," Trump told Univision in an interview that aired Thursday night. |
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Lingering tensions between the Biden and Obama teams broke into the open this week when the former president's close political adviser David Axelrod said President Biden should consider stepping aside from reelection for the sake of the country. Former Biden White House chief of staff and longtime Biden confidant Ron Klain shot back, complaining about past pointed criticisms of the president from Axelrod. |
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Several Ohio Republican lawmakers are proposing to strip courts of the authority to review cases related to implementing the newly passed Issue 1 abortion amendment. In a statement released Thursday, four GOP lawmakers claimed without evidence that there was "foreign election interference" in the vote to pass Issue 1, and threatened to block the ability of courts to interpret the new constitutional amendment. |
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Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) officially launched his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday at a packed brewery in South Jersey. The third-term congressman was one of the first Democrats to call on Menendez to resign in the wake of a corruption indictment, and announced a primary bid against him the next day |
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BY COL. MICHAEL HUDSON (RET.) |
OPINION | During a recent U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing about veteran suicide response, Chairman Jon Tester told U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials, "We just got to do better. … It's ruining lives, it's ruining families." This comes in the wake of a VA Office of Inspector General report criticizing the agency's crisis hotline for suicide prevention over its handling of a text from a suicidal veteran. |
BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF |
OPINION | This week, the director of the U.S. government's UFO analysis office stated that there is "evidence" of concerning unidentified flying object activity "in our backyard." According to physicist Seán Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, this alarming UFO activity can be attributed to one of two extraordinary sources: either a foreign power or "aliens." |
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BY WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY AND DAVID RISING |
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's prime minister pushed back Saturday against calls from Western allies to do more to protect Palestinian civilians, as troops encircled Gaza's largest hospital where doctors said five patients died, including a premature baby, after the last generator ran out of fuel. |
BY DREW HINSHAW, JOE PARKINSON AND KRISHNA POKHAREL |
Newly arrived from Nepal, Bipin Joshi suddenly found himself in a war zone. He threw a grenade out of harm's way. His country is desperate to get him back. |
BY MARCO HERNANDEZ AND JOSH HOLDER |
The Gaza Strip has all the harrowing pitfalls soldiers have learned to expect from urban warfare: high-rise ambushes, truncated lines of sight and, everywhere, vulnerable civilians with nowhere to hide. |
BY LAURA REILEY AND KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN/NOOR |
For more than half a century, American farmers have had a clear mandate: Grow more. In the 1970s, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz encapsulated the mission by urging them to plant "from fencerow to fencerow" and to "get big or get out." |
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