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How the Supreme Court settled on an ethics code — and what it left out

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 7:11pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 6:47pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 6:46pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 6:08pm
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’

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 6:03pm
This appears to only apply when the target of the pejorative is himself.
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Welcome to War on Christmas season!

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 5:15pm
Fox News is at it again.
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Aide to Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to defrauding donors

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 4:17pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 4:01pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 2:30pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 2:28pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 2:05pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 1:00pm
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 11:51am
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 11:10am
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

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 8:33am
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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Univision, the Spanish language news giant, shifts its approach to Trump

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 5:00am
The presence of corporate executives at Mar a Lago raises alarm among Democrats who are used to Latino media criticism of the former president’s policies.
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House speaker moves past hard-right concerns in effort to avoid government shutdown

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 11/14/2023 - 12:38am
Without a stopgap funding plan, the government will shut down at the end of the week.
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Supreme Court, under pressure, issues ethics code specific to justices

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/13/2023 - 8:16pm
The Supreme Court issued a statement of ethics specific to the nine justices after reports of lavish and unreported travel and gifts for some of its members.
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Calls, texts, candidate chats: Trump’s rivals chase support after Scott exits

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/13/2023 - 7:39pm
Even as the GOP field shrinks, it’s unclear that any Trump alternative can consolidate support in a way that seriously challenges him.
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Maryanne Trump Barry, federal judge and Trump’s sister, dies at 86

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 11/13/2023 - 6:03pm
Frustrated by his presidency, Mrs. Barry called her brother “cruel” in conversations secretly recorded by her niece.
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