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Former GOP Rep. Kinzinger Slams Jordan As Worst Pick For Speaker Of The House

Kinzinger criticizes Jordan's focus on destroying Democrats, calls for unity in GOP.

Zenger

Why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?

The Republican Party in the United States has moved farther right in recent years. And as it’s done so, you would think racialized Americans might be distancing themselves from it and its policies.

The Conversation

Trump launches fresh attack on Nikki Haley with latest insult

‘Fox has totally given up on Ron DeSanctimonious, and is on their next ‘journey’ pushing Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley,’ Trump writes

The Independent UK

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Trump claims he ‘couldn’t stand’ John Kelly and ‘fired him like a dog’

‘John Kelly, by far the dumbest of my Military people, just picked up the theme of the Radical Left’s lying about Gold Star Families and Soldiers, in his hatred of me,’ Trump rants on Truth Social

The Independent UK

Poisonous Atmosphere

Plus: Eric Adams vs. migrants, SBF is back, Arnold Schwarzenegger for speaker?, and more...

Reason

Trump runs to Judge Cannon for delay

Trump may have also run afoul of a judge in a separate lawsuit after leaving court early on Wednesday

Salon

D.C. descends into comedy: Don't laugh

Kevin McCarthy's downfall would be hilarious, if it weren't a sign of America's serious political dysfunction

Salon

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Trump tries to have New York hush money criminal case tossed

The former president’s lawyers argued that Mr Trump was indicted to interfere with his 2024 presidential campaign

The Independent UK

Who could replace Kevin McCarthy as the next US House speaker?

Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan from the Republican Party have declared their candidacy for the role.

Al Jazeera

Could Trump become the next speaker of the House?

Donald Trump has revelled in the calls for him to become the next speaker of the House

The Independent UK

Menendez’s alleged sharing of information with Egypt risked lives of US embassy staff, ex-US official says

Former diplomat said senator’s allegedly corrupt actions could have put embassy staff in the sights of Egyptian intelligence

The Guardian - US

Who will replace ousted Kevin McCarthy as the new House speaker?

The House has been left in turmoil after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Tuesday. As Republicans scramble to find his successor, here’s a look at some of the possible contenders. Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

Matt Gaetz slams McHenry for sending House home ‘to cry for a week’

MrGaetz criticised Mr McHenry’s decision to call a recess saying it gives the House lawmakers a week of ‘hand-wringing and bedwetting’ before a new speaker is handed the gavel

The Independent UK

The US supreme court is facing a crisis of legitimacy

There’s a growing sense among many Americans that the Roberts court with its 6-3 hard-right supermajority is irrevocably broken

The Guardian - US

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The Guardian - US

Denver city council members propose $300m medical debt relief plan for residents

Denver is now among more than two dozen cities, states or counties that are either abolishing medical debt or in talks to do so

The Guardian - US

‘There is no alternative’: Cornel West, presidential hopeful, is not backing down

The 70-year-old progressive scholar says he’s not seeking to steal Joe Biden votes, but instead trying to woo alienated non-voters

Salon

GOP can't flip McCarthy's mess onto Dems

Democrats are sick of bailing the GOP out of their own messes, and boy, are Republicans whining about it

Chicago Sun-Times

Preckwinkle pitches 2024 budget with no new taxes, more money for asylum-seeker health care

Cook County board president wants to tap reserves to keep in place some programs launched with federal pandemic relief dollars after that lifeline ends.

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Evening Standard

Who is Matt Gaetz? The US congressman behind Kevin McCarthy’s ousting

The US Speaker has lost a no-confidence vote for the first time ever. But what does it all mean?

The Independent UK

Biden’s dog Commander removed from White House because he keeps biting Secret Service agents

‘Commander is not presently on the White House campus’

Chicago Sun-Times

Dianne Feinstein was at the center of a key LGBTQ+ moment. She’s being lauded as an evolving ally

The Democrat became San Francisco’s mayor on the death of George Moscone, leading a center of gay culture roiled by violence just as the AIDS crisis was about to hit.

The Independent UK

America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion

Ask Americans what their religion is, and nearly 1 in 3 say this -- none

The Independent UK

Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US

Thirty percent of Americans don’t identify with a religious group — but not all of them are atheists or agnostics

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ senator rebuffs Sen. Dick Durbin’s 4th bid to confirm Chicago federal prosecutor

Offering shifting stories, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio is blocking the confirmation of April Perry and Rebecca Lutzko, tapped to be the U.S. attorneys in Chicago and Cleveland.

Al Jazeera

‘Firebrand’: What does US Republican rebel Matt Gaetz want?

Congressman Gaetz led a group of Republican dissenters to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a historic vote.

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