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How Republicans castrated themselves … - Letting any member call a vote on removing the speaker. … - Surrendering authority of the Rules Committee, which sets the terms for how legislation will be handled during votes.
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Washington Post:
House Republican infighting getting worse after foreign aid vote — One GOP lawmaker said he serves with “some real scumbags,” while others fought over Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy for bringing up the aid package — The House came together Saturday to pass a sweeping $95 billion foreign aid package …
Punchbowl News:
The winner of this Congress? Joe Biden — House Republicans came into the 118th Congress with big plans. They were going to cut taxes and spending, impeach President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet and use their leverage to force Democrats to accept stringent new border security and immigration policies.
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Elaina Plott Calabro / The Atlantic:
The Accidental Speaker — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Jurors in Trump Criminal Case Told That He Lied ‘Over and Over and Over’ — Donald J. Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign. A lawyer for Mr. Trump insisted that the former president “did not commit any crimes.”
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“The alternate reality Trump lives in is crumbling” with first criminal trial: ex-federal prosecutor
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Naomi Hartono / NASA Blogs:
NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth — For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.
Minouche Shafik / president.columbia.edu:
Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik — Dear Members of the Columbia Community, — I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm.
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Yale Daily News:
LIVE: Pro-Palestine protesters disperse from blocking intersection, move to Cross Campus
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Anthony Robledo / USA Today:
Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell arrested on suspicion of burglary after being found in home — Mitchell, a Democrat, was arrested after being found inside a home in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, police say. She was booked into Becker County jail on a burglary charge.
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Steve Karnowski / Associated Press:
Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell Arrested On Suspicion Of Burglary
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Politico:
Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr. — Even Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that the independent candidate “probably hurts both” Biden and him. — Republicans are waking up to the reality that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sink their standard-bearer just as easily …
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Tesnim Zekeria / Popular Information:
A historic victory for unions — On April 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. The union won by a 73% majority, with more than 2,600 votes - a historic feat.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Greene faces uphill battle to oust Johnson — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is escalating her threat to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power, but she faces a steep climb if she hopes to achieve that goal. — Not only has the Speaker recently received a glowing review …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump's alleged crime a felony — Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state's case against the former president.
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Politico:
Next Ukraine package to be larger than normal, include armored vehicles — The Senate could approved more than $60 billion for Kyiv as soon as Tuesday. — The Biden administration is preparing a larger-than-normal package of military aid for Ukraine that will include armored vehicles …
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:
The GOP's Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True — Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the spotlight on center stage in American politics.
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Tina Reed / Axios:
Biden moves to block abortion records from investigators — The Biden administration on Monday updated federal health privacy rules to protect patients seeking abortion and providers involved in the procedure. … The big picture: Health plans and providers will be barred from disclosing …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
White House moves to protect patient abortion records
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New York Times:
Trump Calls for More Protests Outside Trial: ‘Rally Behind MAGA’ — With support from demonstrators in Lower Manhattan spotty so far, Donald Trump issued a call to “rally behind MAGA,” and suggested the poor turnout was a result of a plot against his supporters.
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
‘Plasmic Echo’ was FBI code name for Trump classified documents probe — The FBI's code name for its investigation into former President Trump's handling of classified documents was “Plasmic Echo,” according to court filings published Monday. — The name was listed in unredacted court …
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Norman L. Eisen / Just Security:
Why Trump Will Likely be Held in Contempt and What Then — Trial in The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president, began on Monday, April 15. Although the trial is still in its early stages, Trump has already run …
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Ronald Mann / SCOTUSblog:
Court to mull injunction in Starbucks case against Memphis union organizers — Union organizing efforts at Starbucks probably are the most protracted labor dispute of the decade, and on Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear argument in a closely watched case arising from the company's firing of seven employees at a Memphis branch.
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