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‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views

Republican House speaker, who has advanced extreme views as attorney and legislator, says ‘I am a Bible-believing Christian’

The Guardian - US

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy claims equivalent of Russian brigade lost near Avdiivka; Putin warns of weapon smuggling from Ukraine – as it happened

Ukraine’s president tells British PM brigade’s worth of troops lost trying to encircle embattled city; Putin demands action on weapons trafficking

The Guardian - AU

Republican divide keeps growing

There are many reasons and rivalries fragmenting the Republicans today, but they can essentially be divided into two main factions: the Reality Caucus and the Chaos Caucus.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Mary Trump Slams Newly-Elected House Speaker Mike Johnson As ‘Fascist’

Former President Trump's niece criticizes Johnson's election and his role in election-denying efforts.

Zenger

Louisville congressman weighs in on new House speaker

Wednesday, Kentucky’s five Republican members of Congress voted to elect Mike Johnson, while the state’s lone Democrat congressman, Morgan McGarvey of Louisville, voted for his party’s nominee, Hakeem Jeffrees. The day after the vote, McGarvey told WEKU News he felt a sense of relief.

WEKU

Johnson was top lawyer for hate group

Johnson was a leader for Alliance Defending Freedom, which wrote the abortion ban that led to the downfall of “Roe"

Salon

Republican senators want to separate Israel funding from Ukraine aid

Conservatives hope breaking off Ukraine funding will allow it to be killed

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Penny Wong urges Australians in Lebanon to ‘consider leaving’ – As it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

The Guardian - AU

House speaker once won taxpayer funds for Noah’s Ark park accused of bias

Mike Johnson represented Kentucky project said to have used Christian beliefs ‘as a litmus test for hiring decisions’

The Guardian - US

Internecine squabbling: On the dissonances within the Republican Party in the U.S.

If the House’s Speaker saga indicates anything, it is that the dissonances within the Republican Party could trouble Donald Trump and his political ambitions

The Hindu

How Speaker Mike Johnson kept pushing to overturn the 2020 election

Speaker Mike Johnson pushed same debunked conspiracy theories that led to guilty plea from Trump lawyer Sidney Powell

The Independent UK

New York Republicans set up vote to oust Rep. George Santos from House next week - Roll Call

Rep. George Santos will face a vote to expel him from the House next week, brought by his Republican colleagues in the New York delegation.

Roll Call

The Guardian view on America’s new speaker: the right gets its man

Editorial: The US has got its federal government back. But Mike Johnson is not an answer to the nation’s political dysfunction

The Guardian - UK

Speaker Mike Johnson slammed for offering prayers after mass shooting

‘The thing about being Speaker is you can do more than think. You can bring legislation to the floor’

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After mass shooting, new speaker calls for prayer that 'senseless violence can stop' - Roll Call

New Speaker Mike Johnson, who has opposed gun control legislation, offered prayer Thursday as response to a mass shooter in Maine.

AAP

'Test of our time': PM says China projects its values

Anthony Albanese has wrapped up an official visit to the United States with a reflection on China's attempts to change the status quo.

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: future of US support for Kyiv in question as Israel conflict reshapes Washington's priorities

There was some worrying news for Volodymyr Zelensky this week when the US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker. Mike Johnson, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, has consistently opposed US funding for the Ukrainian war effort. Now he’s the second most powerful man in US politics behind the…

The Independent UK

This is new Speaker Mike Johnson’s anti-LGBT+ record

‘Homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic,’ Mike Johnson wrote in 2004

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Al Jazeera

Who is Mike Johnson, the new US Republican House speaker?

Mike Johnson was elected as House speaker after three other candidates were unable to secure enough votes.

Salon

Mike Johnson pushed big Medicare cuts

"It's right on his website"

The Guardian - US

Seth Meyers on Mike Johnson: ‘A far-right conservative almost no one has heard of’

Late-night hosts react to the end of speakership chaos in Congress as Republicans elect Mike Johnson, an election denier

The Guardian - US

The Maga-fication of congressional Republicans is now complete

Republicans have elected an obscure and extreme Trumpist, Mike Johnson, as speaker of the House

Evening Standard

OPINION - Can Europe still rely on the United States for its defence?

In 'Secrets of a Successful Marriage', the final episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons, Marge kicks Homer out of the house. Homer subsequently takes up residence in Bart's tree house and is reduced to wearing tattered rags. As he thinks of reasons for Marge to take him back,…

The Guardian - US

New House speaker pushed for ‘hard labor’ for abortion providers after fall of Roe

Mike Johnson of Louisiana has continued to champion anti-abortion bills even as some in his party beware US voter backlash

Roll Call

At the Races: Senate may be Scott-free for a while - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

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