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Republican McCarthy breaks holdout fever in US House speaker race

Washington (AFP) - US House speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy took a significant step to securing the gavel Friday after three days of deadlock as he managed to win over most of the 20 hardline fellow Republicans blocking his path.

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On Capitol attack anniversary, challenge of Hawley announced

Two years to the day since U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s now-famous raised-fist salute to rioters at the U.S. Capitol, a Marine veteran who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2022 has announced that he’ll try to unseat Hawley in 2024

The Independent UK

‘Interest is off the scale’: Cornish cinema fans snub Avatar for local folk horror

Mark Jenkin’s unsettling Enys Men, follow-up to his cult movie Bait, plays to packed-out houses before nationwide launch

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On 3rd long day of GOP House speaker fight, McCarthy fails again, and again, and ...

Pressure was building as McCarthy lost seventh, eighth and then historic ninth and 10th rounds of voting, surpassing the number it took the last time this happened, 100 years ago, in a prolonged fight to choose a speaker.

Chicago Sun-Times

Minnesota Democrats move quickly to codify abortion access in state law

MINNEAPOLIS — A fast-tracked proposal to enshrine access to abortion into Minnesota law cleared its first legislative hurdle on Thursday, signaling newfound urgency on an issue that has been static for years under divided government.

Tribune News Service

Will Bunch: On 2nd anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump’s disciples succeed in shutting down the Capitol

At least on Jan. 6, 2021, the insurrectionists on Capitol Hill had to push aside some flimsy metal barricades before they could carry out their assault on the seat of U.S. governance. Nearly two years later, the 20 or so GOP heirs to the toxic legacy of their patron saint,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Kevin McCarthy’s losses couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy

On the surface, the House stalemate of choosing a new speaker looks like the firebrands and zealots are in revolt against the GOP “establishment.” But the reality is that the Republican establishment is deader than dead.

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Throwback Thursday: Giants and Eagles have long, intertwined history

The New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles have a long and winding rivalry that dates back to 1933.

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McCarthy caves to more MAGA concessions

Despite the negotiations, McCarthy still appears unlikely to have won over enough votes to become speaker

Salon

Talking across the political aisle isn't a cure-all - but it does help reduce hostility

Simmering tension in American politics came to a head two years ago, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. The failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, resulted in several deaths and injuries to almost 150 police…

The Conversation

New Minnesota state Rep. Maria Isa Pérez-Vega drops a rap album the same day she's sworn in

MINNEAPOLIS — Among the many questions veteran Twin Cities rapper Maria Isa heard last year during her successful campaign to become a new state legislator, the one that always baffled her was, "Are you going to quit your music career?"

Tribune News Service

Lynn Schmidt: Those who hold the line deserve respect, not derision

District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the line in more ways than one. Sometimes that line can be convoluted and complicated and sometimes it is pretty straightforward.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: For the record: The Jan. 6 closes the books on Trump’s treachery

Hours before its dissolution at noon Tuesday with the ending of the Congress of the last two years and the commencement of the new session, the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol released the last remaining documents from its crucial probe.

Tribune News Service

GOP pull down Capitol metal detectors after its members were fined thousands for dodging them

The Republicans may not have a speaker, but they appear to have made one change in the House

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New documents detail Sen. Ron Johnson asking about electors

Newly released documents from the House Jan. 6 committee show that the former Wisconsin Republican Party chairman testified that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors

Salon

McCarthy seeks to gut ethics watchdog

McCarthy tries to woo far-right critics by limiting nonpartisan watchdog while empowering the GOP-led House panel

The Independent UK

New Congress to convene, but will McCarthy be House speaker?

The new Congress opens with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy grasping for his political survival

Roll Call

‘Good riddance’: Republicans remove metal detectors from House chamber

As Republicans took control of the House on Tuesday, they wasted no time in erasing one symbol of the previous era — metal detectors.

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Los Angeles Times

Republicans move to retain Jan. 6 committee documents

WASHINGTON — Republicans are attempting to pass a new House rule to block materials compiled by the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection from immediately going to the National Archives.

Axios

House GOP zeroes in on Jan. 6 panel documents

The move could signal plans to counter the panel's findings.

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 panel shutting down after referring Trump for crimes

The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down

The Independent UK

January 6 panel leaders fear GOP will leak names of national security personnel who testified

Select committee leaders fear the incoming Republican majority could jeopardise the safety of national security personnel who work at the White House

The Independent UK

Karlie Kloss’ tweets about Jan 6 drew ire of Ivanka Trump aide and Hope Hicks, newly released texts reveal

‘Does she get how royally f***ed they all are now?’ Hicks writes

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump's New Year's Eve party - missing kids, worrying words and famous guests

Donald Trump ended a pretty miserable year with a big bash at his Mar-a-Lago mansion - but there were some very notable absences

Tribune News Service

For retiring US Rep. Mike Doyle, 'no regrets' as his consequential career in Congress ends

PITTSBURGH — This was a bad idea, Susan Doyle told her husband.

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