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9:15 AM ET, October 27, 2023

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CBS News:
Rep. Dean Phillips will challenge Biden in Democratic presidential race: “This is an election about the future”  —  Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has decided to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination and will launch his 2024 campaign on Friday in New Hampshire …
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Politico:
Mike Johnson pushed the ‘Big Lie.’ But Biden world sees thornier issues ahead.  —  The White House has begun envisioning life with a new speaker — and the path to keeping the government's lights on.  —  The rapid ascension of Rep. Mike Johnson to the House speakership has forced the White House …
Punchbowl News:
NRCC chair dishes on Johnson  —  THE TOP … He's bringing his longtime chief of staff Hayden Haynes to work in the speaker's office.  And the new speaker is busy searching for a top foreign policy aide, a member services director and a policy director.  —  Yet maybe no organ …
Politico:
Playbook: What Dean Phillips will say in New Hampshire  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WELCOME TO THE NFL — “'One of his early tests': New speaker confronts GOP divide on abortion,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Meredith Lee Hill
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Is the Republican Speakership Cursed?  Johnson Is About to Find Out.  —  Kevin McCarthy was just the latest in a series of Republican speakers and speaker wannabes who faced revolts.  Speaker Mike Johnson should take note.  —  Republicans didn't have a speaker for 40 years until Newt …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Prosecutors Withdraw Second Subpoena in Trump Fund-Raising Inquiry  —  The decision suggests that the special counsel is winding down an investigation into whether the former president's political operation defrauded investors by promoting election lies.  —  Federal prosecutors …
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The Messenger:
Trump Prosecutors Fani Willis and Jack Smith Have Been Keeping Their Distance.  That Might Soon Change.  —  A rash of plea deals in the Fulton County election-racketeering case has yielded fresh statements by three former top Trump election attorneys that may be of interest to federal prosecutors
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Chris Christie on What Mark Meadows Immunity Deal Means for Trump: ‘The Walls Are Closing In Around Him’
Associated Press:
Maine passed a law to try to prevent mass shootings.  Some say more is needed after Lewiston killings  —  Barely four years before a gunman's deadly rampage in Maine, a state that is staunchly protective of gun rights, the governor signed a law aimed at preventing a mass shooting …
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Washington Post:
Maine's loose gun laws come under scrutiny after deadly shootings
Washington Post:
Maine shootings live updates Manhunt for suspect in 18 deaths continues
Pilar Melendez / The Daily Beast:
Family Reveals Suspected Gunman's Link to Maine Massacre Sites
HuffPost:
New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is ‘Pointing People To The Truth’  —  An ark replica with dinosaurs “is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.  —  Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago …
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Here's Why Mike Johnson Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump  —  The former president only cares about himself.  The new Speaker of the House actually wants to make America a Christian theocracy. … The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism.  It is Christofascism.
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
New House Speaker Blamed School Shootings on Teaching Evolution and Abortion
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Before Mike Johnson Was Speaker, He Was Blaming Abortion for School Shootings
U.S. Department of Defense:
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Statement on U.S. Military Strikes in Eastern Syria  —  Today, at President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces conducted self-defense strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting  —  Five senators who caucus with Democrats joined Republicans in voting to adopt the amendment  —  ROBERT CARD, AN Army reservist with a history of mental health issues, is suspected of killing at least 18 people …
Discussion: Roll Call
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Rep. Jared Golden reverses on assault weapons ban  —  The Maine Democrat says he must take responsibility following the mass shooting in his state and now opposes the weapons.  —  Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine), a conservative Democrat, reversed his previously held opposition and said on Thursday …
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Vanishing Act: Why Trump Rallies Are Going Extinct  —  Trump has been holding about two rallies per month.  That's way down from his previous campaigns, like in 2016 when he held 323 rallies, or 70 rallies during COVID. … Vanishing Act  —  DERRY, New Hampshire …
Discussion: Raw Story and UPI
Washington Post:
A barrage and a midair explosion: What visual evidence shows about the Gaza hospital blast  —  Videos analyzed by The Post reveal that rockets were launched from Gaza in the direction of the hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there  —  Fighters in Gaza launched a barrage of rockets toward Israel …
Discussion: BBC and HotAir
Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
Trump Civil Fraud Trial Turns To Question Of Whether Ivanka Trump Will Have To Testify  —  It's unclear how soon Judge Arthur Engoron will decide, or when Ivanka Trump would testify if ordered to do so.  —  LOADING  —  Days after former President Donald Trump got a taste of the witness stand …
Discussion: Raw Story, Insider and Associated Press
Katelyn Fossett / Politico:
‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’  —  A Q&A with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on the Christian nationalist ideas that shaped House Speaker Mike Johnson.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson, a Shreveport, Louisiana, native, entered politics after spending …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Dickinson / Atlantic Council:
Arming Ukraine is cheap compared to the far higher price of Russian victory  —  Search Suggestions  — {{ suggestion }}  —  Total Results {{ currentCount }}/{{ totalCount }}  —  LOAD MORE  — ISSUES  — REGION  — FOCUS  —  How much longer can the West afford to continue supporting Ukraine?
Alex Tabet / NBC News:
Donald Trump Jr. goes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Iowa appearance  —  The former president's son spoke in Iowa Thursday, with less than three months to go until the first-in-the-nation caucuses.  —  URBANDALE, Iowa — It was junior-on-junior warfare at former President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
 
 
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The White House:
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard, and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby
Discussion: Politico, UPI and Breitbart
NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files censure resolution accusing Rep. Rashida Tlaib of inciting an insurrection
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Riley Rogerson / The Daily Beast:
New York Republicans Offer Motion to Expel George Santos From Congress
John Hudson / Washington Post:
U.S., Qatar to revisit Doha's ties to Hamas after Gaza hostage crisis
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Adriana Gomez Licon / Associated Press:
DeSantis says he's sending weapons to Israel in move that could bolster him in the GOP primary
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Numerous verified X accounts are claiming that the Maine mass shootings were a “false flag”
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who “revolted” over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 Minutes' CECOT segment to be fired

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015
 
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