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North Carolina Representative Dan Bishop, a longtime loyalist of former President Donald Trump, has walked back comments that he was going to be "out" if Minority Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy bounces back and gathers enough votes to become Majority Speaker of the House.

WASHINGTON — For a brief moment amid the eighth ballot, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) approached reporters to talk about his plans for what's next.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost three more votes in his bid for the Speakership on Thursday, and CNN reporter Jamie Gangel said that he may simply not have the votes no matter how many concessions he makes.

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) took the floor to nominate Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for the eighth time on the House floor to be the Speaker. This time, however, the Democrat nominating him took the opportunity to rebuke the Republican Party.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy. In a 3-2 vote, the state’s high court wrote, in part, “We hold that our state constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion.” In the majority were Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty, Justice John Few and Justice Kaye Hearn, the lone woman on the Supreme Court, who will retire this year. Читать дальше...

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Thursday it had named 24 experts to review Boeing’s safety management processes and how they influence Boeing’s safety culture after two fatal 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people.

The panel, which was required by Congress under a 2020 law to reform how the FAA certifies new airplanes, includes MIT lecturer and aerospace engineer Javier de Luis whose sister was killed in a MAX crash, as well as experts from NASA... Читать дальше...

During the seventh vote for Speaker of the House this Thursday, Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz nominated former President Donald Trump for the role.

"Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander threatened to expose some unspecified crime that he claims Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) committed.

By Nate Raymond

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned key parts of the convictions of two Alabama doctors accused of running a massive "pill mill" after the U.S. Supreme Court in June made it harder to prosecute physicians for illegally prescribing addictive drugs like opioids.

The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of Xiulu Ruan and John Couch for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances after finding that under a Supreme Court ruling in June in Ruan's case... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton will join the faculty at Columbia University next month, officials announced Thursday. Clinton will be a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs, or SIPA, and a presidential fellow at Columbia World Projects, as first reported by the college newspaper The Columbia Spectator. “Given her extraordinary talents and capacities together with her singular life experiences, Hillary Clinton is unique... Читать дальше...

Lil Keed, the Atlanta rapper who died suddenly in May 2022, died from eosinophilia, according to a coroner’s report. The “Snake” rapper was 24 when he died. He was a member of Young Thug’s YSL record label. Eosinophilia occurs when a person’s body produces too many of a specific type of white blood cells, called eosinophils. Serious cases of eosinophilia are often caused by blood cancer, parasites or autoimmune diseases, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The Los Angeles County medical examiner... Читать дальше...

Intense gunfire rocked a cartel heartland in northwestern Mexico on Thursday after security forces launched an operation in which a son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was reportedly arrested.

A Washington state man who sought another continuance in his case over charges related to his alleged participation in the January 6 Capitol riot got a response from prosecutors this week, who said he didn't offer a compelling reason for his request, KARK reports.

MIAMI — A former minister in the Bolivian government who has been in federal custody since 2021 was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Wednesday for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes through a Miami bank in exchange for steering an inflated tear-gas contract to a South Florida company. Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic, 59, admitted as part of his plea agreement in Miami federal court that he received at least $532,000 in bribe payments from a Broward-based company so it... Читать дальше...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis claimed his "Don't Say Gay" law only applied to "classroom instruction" in kindergarten through third grade, and only prohibited "sexual instruction," but his Dept. of Education is promoting false claims that school library books are included, and some school systems are using the possibly unconstitutional law to ban books that have LGBTQ characters.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) went on MSNBC at the 11 o'clock hour with Stephanie Ruhle where she struggled to keep up with the hosts fact-checks. The interview came after Boebert appeared on the Fox network, where Sean Hannity complained that he felt like he was talking to a liberal because Boebert refused to be a Republican team player.

Donald Trump delivered a pseudo-presidential address calling for military action against Mexican drug cartels and hinted he should be returned to the White House before the 2024 election.

The director of a low-budget horror film was shocked to learn the brother of one of his actresses had committed a strikingly similar crime to what he depicted onscreen.

Former Arizona candidate Kari Lake said on Thursday that Katie Hobbs (D) could "play governor for a while" until courts overturn the 2022 election.

Republicans opposed to Kevin McCarthy's bid for House Speaker nominated Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds this Wednesday as McCarthy continued to fail at reaching the required number of votes to push him through, thanks to about 20 Republican holdouts.

Over the past several decades, the House Rules Committee has consolidated more power and under the new GOP House, it will likely supersede the power of any speaker. Kevin McCarthy has agreed to even further changes as part of his negotiation and it will make House rules that empower the fringe even more.

The Supreme Court of Arizona has denied a petition to immediately hear former candidate Kari Lake's case that claims that the 2022 election for governor was fraudulent.

The highly-respected U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat of Michigan, has announced she will not seek re-election in 2024, fueling rumors once again of a potential run for her seat by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Writing for The Bulwark on Thursday, conservative analyst Charlie Sykes mocked former President Donald Trump for his lack of power and influence over the far-right members in Congress, as they continue to block GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from securing the votes for Speaker — the first time this has happened to a House party leader in 100 years.

While Kevin McCarthy’s struggle to become Speaker of the House of Representatives appears to be about personality and struggles within the House Republican caucus, it’s really about something much larger: the fate and future of American “big government” and the middle class it created.