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McCarthy accused of elbowing lawmaker, while fight nearly breaks out in Senate
The breakdowns in decorum came on a day when lawmakers were laboring to avoid a government shutdown and make sure they can leave town ahead of a Thanksgiving break.
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N.J. first lady Tammy Murphy announces Senate bid in challenge to Menendez
She joins a growing list of Democrats challenging Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) after he was accused of corruption and conspiring to work as an illegal agent of the Egyptian government.
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Trump says Biden isn’t in charge. Sidney Powell says neither was Trump.
Powell’s statement to prosecutors paints a picture of a president who wasn’t actually in charge — that Pat Cipollone ”was running the show more than Trump was.”
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New China committee report raises questions about California lab
The report’s release coincides with President Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday.
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Fight against strip club set Speaker Mike Johnson on his moral crusade
The failed effort to block the “sexually oriented business” made Johnson out as a martyr and marked his decisive move into the culture wars.
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How the Supreme Court settled on an ethics code — and what it left out
How the U.S. Supreme Court responded to public pressure to issue an ethics code for its nine justices.
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House passes funding bill to avert government shutdown
Keeping the government open presents a major test for new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has faced competing demands from different factions in his party.
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How each member voted on House stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown
The Washington Post recorded how Republicans and Democrats voted on a short-term government funding bill.
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Trump’s Truth Social faces ‘substantial doubt’ following financial losses
Accountants for Trump’s media start-up say it “has suffered negative cash flows and recurring losses from operations that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue.”
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James Comer is mad someone would abuse the term ‘shell company’
This appears to only apply when the target of the pejorative is himself.
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Aide to Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to defrauding donors
Samuel Miele, aide to Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), pleads guilty to defrauding donors with a fake identity.
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Judge allows Trump on Michigan primary ballot as critics try to bar him
State Judge James Robert Redford wrote that courts do not have authority to determine whether someone is eligible to run for office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
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Trump’s most effective inoculation effort centered on Russian influence
New criminal charges in Ukraine targeting someone linked to Rudy Giuliani reinforce the utility of Trump’s blanket rejection of questions about Russia.
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House members emotional after seeing footage of Oct. 7 attack on Israel
About 150 lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, attended the screening of the 40-minute-long video of the attack.
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An ugly scene highlights House GOP’s descent into childish infighting
Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) were involved in an alleged physical altercation. The scene comes as the GOP is riven with often-immature personal feuds.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s ‘all in’ for Trump in 2024
Johnson, the second person in line to the presidency and the country’s highest-ranking Republican, is making an unusually early decision to boost Trump.
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Bernie Sanders faces blowback as progressives urge cease-fire in Gaza
Sanders’s status as a progressive icon — known simply as “Bernie” to a generation of voters — has made his current position particularly painful for some who want to see him leading a burgeoning antiwar movement.
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House vote stalls effort to impeach DHS secretary Mayorkas
The vote stalls an effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust the Biden Cabinet member because of the administration’s border and immigration policies.
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Shuwanza Goff, Biden’s new Congress liaison, on the spot as shutdown looms
Goff faces her first critical test this week: If Congress and the White House cannot reach a spending deal by midnight Friday, the government will shut down.
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