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Pete Hegseth Meets With Republican Senators Ahead Of Confirmation Hearings

Pete Hegseth, Trump's defense secretary pick, meets with key senators amid misconduct allegations.

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I attended two Trump rallies at the same North Carolina site, two years apart. Now, he is more desperate and diminished

Trump’s rally in Wilmington shows he lacks the same bravado and juice that once made him a spectacle, Eric Garcia reports. Now he just is promising anything to get elected

The Independent UK

Trump ignores Mark Robinson scandal at NC rally as embattled ‘Black Nazi’ candidate divides MAGA base

As Trump hopes to keep North Carolina in his column, he focuses more on his grandchildren than a losing candidate, Eric Garcia reports from Wilmington

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Departing GOP leader dominates Senate earmark rankings - Roll Call

Unfettered by potential challenges to his position after deciding to step aside, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has returned to the earmarking game with gusto.

Roll Call

Border agents use drone to locate missing child in Texas

The child was located hundreds of yards away at the bottom of the riverbank.

Latin Times

McDowell wins NC-6 Republican primary after Walker declines runoff

Addison McDowell defeated five other candidates in the Republican primary for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District on March 5, 2024. McDowell finished with 26.1% of the vote, below the 30% vote threshold that could have prompted a runoff. Mark Walker, who finished second with 24.1% of the vote, said he…

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Republican Senators Move To Block Federal Reserve From Issuing A CBDC

Sen. Ted Cruz and several other Republican senators are pushing a bill that could prohibit the U.S. central bank from issuing CBDCs, saying a CBDC will only infringe on the American public's financial freedoms.

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No open U.S. House seats in Illinois for the first time in a decade

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 21, Brew.

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SASC carries on with nomination hearings despite ongoing hold - Roll Call

President Biden’s pick to be the Air Force’s next top officer breezed through his hearing Tuesday before Senate Armed Services.

Roll Call

So what if Stacy Davis Gates sends her son to a private school?

The teachers union president understands we improve public schools with resources, not with abandonment.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mandy Cohen as CDC director? Republicans in Congress tell Biden she’s ‘unfit’

North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd, Rep. Dan Bishop and other Republicans are citing Dr. Mandy Cohen’s track record during the COVID-19 pandemic in opposing her as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tribune News Service

Biden plans a big push in the elusive state of North Carolina in 2024. Here's why

The Biden campaign plans to try to turn North Carolina blue in 2024. A Democratic candidate hasn't done that since 2008, but a win there would make it easier for Biden in the Electoral College.

WEKU

Conservative Robinson joins race for N. Carolina governor

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has formally entered next year's race for governor

The Independent UK

Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina endorses Donald Trump for president in 2024

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Budd announced Thursday his endorsement of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, just a week after Trump became the first president in history to be arrested on felony charges.

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Switching parties, Rep. Tricia Cotham is formally welcomed to North Carolina House GOP caucus

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic State Rep. Tricia Cotham joined House and Senate GOP leaders at the North Carolina GOP headquarters Wednesday morning to announce that she is switching parties to become a member of the House Republican caucus.

Tribune News Service

Switching parties, Rep. Tricia Cotham is formally welcomed to NC House GOP caucus

Salon

God, guns and money: GOP's deadly sham

A Biblical scholar on the absurdity of using the Bible to justify the Republican Party's devotion to guns

The Guardian - US

Election-denying donors pour millions into key Wisconsin supreme court race

‘An organized group of insurrectionists’ is seeking to swing a vote with big implications for voting rights, redistricting and abortion

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A spot in the Capitol for Billy Graham’s statue? NC lawmakers want it to happen faster

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham had to die before his statue could be placed in the U.S. Capitol, but on the fifth anniversary of his death his memorial still hasn’t made it into the Statuary Hall collection.

Miami Herald

Upset by military ‘wokeness,’ Rubio proposes bill to ban many trans people from serving

Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is bringing forth a bill that in many cases would bar transgender people from serving in the military.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The ongoing threat to democracy can be found inside Mark Meadows’ phone

Republicans have been crowing about the “Twitter Files” and Hunter Biden’s laptop, but maybe it’s Mark Meadows’ texts they should have been worried about all along.

Tribune News Service

Scrutiny ramps up on Meadows at the Capitol and in NC. The latest on two investigations

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation has finished its inquiry into whether Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s last White House chief of staff, committed voter fraud.

Tribune News Service

Closing the books on 2022 midterm campaign finances

WASHINGTON — It’s no secret that money isn’t everything when it comes to political campaigns. In this year’s midterms, at least a couple dozen candidates in competitive races were outspent but still beat their better-funded opponents.

Roll Call

Closing the books on the 2022 midterm campaign - Roll Call

Final campaign finance reports for 2022 races show, once again, that money isn't everything, with some big spenders coming up short.

Reuters

Democrat Mark Kelly holds seat in Arizona's U.S. Senate race

Control of the U.S. Senate still had not been determined as of Friday evening, three days after the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Heading into the election, Republicans needed to pick up only one seat to take the majority in the 100-seat chamber, which would allow them to block much of…

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