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Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: Florida roundup

Florida is holding elections, including for municipal offices and state legislative offices, on Nov. 7, 2023, and Aug. 20, 2024, respectively. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run…

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Lubbock County becomes latest to approve “abortion travel ban” while Amarillo City Council balks

Lubbock is now the fourth, and largest, county to pass the ordinance which would punish people through civil lawsuits for aiding pregnant women seeking abortions outside of Texas.

The Texas Tribune

Bob Menendez pleads not guilty to charges of acting as an agent of Egypt

The Democratic senator stepped down from the foreign relations committee chair after accusations of being a foreign agent

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Key revelations from leaked audio of Australian billionaire bragging about what Trump told him

Mar-a-Lago club member is heard describing conversations with Trump about Melania, Iraq, impeachment and more

The Independent UK

It’s no surprise that cops have links to Oath Keepers extremist group

We have what we have allowed: the Fraternal Order of Police’s constant resistance to any meaningful reform and the us vs. them mentality, a letter writer says.

Chicago Sun-Times

GOP rep calls speaker race ‘one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen’

‘It’s embarrassing because it empowers and emboldens our adversaries like Chairman Xi who says ‘you know, democracy doesn’t work’,’ House Foreign Affairs Committee chair says

The Independent UK

Argentina ‘puts a limit on madness’ as resurgent Peronists stall Milei’s rise

Soft-spoken Sergio Massa’s campaigning strategy pays off while voters seem to pull back from libertarian rival – but who will win the runoff?

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Afternoon Edition: Who are the Oath Keepers?

Plus: A child mourned in Englewood, a twist in an $11M unclaimed estate saga and more.

Chicago Sun-Times

Protester investigated for wearing CPD uniform at political rally clashes with police at 2nd demonstration

The man shouted at a police commander Saturday during a pro-Palestine march on Michigan Avenue, witnesses say.

Chicago Sun-Times

House GOP asks Jesus to take the wheel

"A messiah will be born unto us who can achieve this miraculous threshold," quipped Rep. Tom McClintock

Salon

Dan Patrick to use $3 million from Defend Texas Liberty to buy Israeli bonds

More than two weeks after the influential PAC’s leader met with a Hitler admirer, Lt. Gov. Patrick said the GOP must ”root out” antisemitism. Patrick had initially said he’d keep the PAC’s money.

The Texas Tribune

GOP's House paralysis is a crisis in a time of crises

House Republicans fired one leader, Kevin McCarthy, and have spent almost three weeks trying unsuccessfully to choose another to succeed him as speaker of the House. That’s left the U.S. House of Representatives unable to do its work, paralyzing the entire legislative branch of government, because the Senate can’t pass…

The Conversation

Who is House Speaker candidate Byron Donalds?

Florida Republican says his focus is on ‘securing our border, funding our government responsibly, advancing a conservative vision’

The Independent UK

Chhattisgarh polls | Deadline for withdrawal of nomination ends, 223 candidates in fray for first phase of 20 seats

223 candidates in fray for Chhattisgarh's first phase polls on November 7. 294 filed nominations, 253 valid after scrutiny. Prominent candidates include Congress’ Deepak Baij, BJP's Raman Singh, Congress MLA Anup Nag

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Who is Pete Sessions and why is he running for House Speaker?

Sessions is the longest-serving representative running to become U.S. House Speaker. He previously led the House Republican campaign arm through a record-breaking victory, but he still faces a steep battle to secure the gavel.

Ballotpedia

2023 statewide ballot measures written at graduate school reading level

The ballot language for the 41 statewide ballot measures on the ballot in eight states in 2023 is written at an average reading level of 19 (third-year graduate school reading level), which is up from 18 years in 2021.

The Independent UK

Trump mocked for denying Sidney Powell was his lawyer after she pleads guilty

Sidney Powell was a part of Donald Trump’s legal team in late 2020 and Mr Trump continued to speak to her about issues connected to the election after she had left

The Independent UK

Outcome of key local races in Pennsylvania could offer lessons for 2024 election

Local elections in Democratic strongholds at both ends of Pennsylvania next month could show how voters feel about progressive candidates and issues such as abortion and crime ahead of the 2024 election

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Salon

Trump steps on another GOP bombshell

House Republicans are out with a new report on President Biden's alleged corruption — but it's buried by Trump news

The Guardian - US

House speaker hopeful Tom Emmer spoke to Trump to ease tensions as race to replace McCarthy drags into third week – as it happened

Tom Emmer current frontrunner as candidates due to present themselves in forum on Monday evening

The Conversation

Key Trump co-defendants accept plea deals – a legal expert explains what that means

Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, two people charged in Georgia with racketeering and other crimes alongside former President Donald Trump, have accepted plea deals that let them avoid the jail time their original charges could have imposed. In exchange, they each agreed to provide testimony in the case.

The Independent UK

Jim Jordan mocked in SNL cold open: ‘That’s not for losers’

In the skit, Mikey Day’s Rep Jim Jordan was distraught after his bid for House Speaker failed for a third time

Reason

May School Choice Programs Restrict Religious Schools' Ability to Select Teachers Based on Religion, Sex, Etc.?

In Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (2012), the Supreme Court unanimously held that religious institutions have the constitutional right to freedom in selecting their clergy and religious teachers, notwithstanding federal or state antidiscrimination law. In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrisey-Berru (2020), the Court held (by a 7-2 vote) that this…

The Guardian - US

Trump faces new peril in federal 2020 election case after lawyer pleads guilty

As part of Kenneth Chesebro’s plea deal he could incriminate Trump in Georgia, but he could also incriminate him in the federal criminal case

WEKU

As the House GOP struggles to pick a speaker, a lawmaker aims to simplify the process

Previous efforts to elect a House speaker have failed at the floor vote. As the search stretches into a third week, Rep. Mike Flood wants Republicans to commit to voting for their party's nominee.

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