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McCarthy caves to more MAGA concessions

Despite the negotiations, McCarthy still appears unlikely to have won over enough votes to become speaker

Salon

Talking across the political aisle isn't a cure-all - but it does help reduce hostility

Simmering tension in American politics came to a head two years ago, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. The failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, resulted in several deaths and injuries to almost 150 police…

The Conversation

New Minnesota state Rep. Maria Isa Pérez-Vega drops a rap album the same day she's sworn in

MINNEAPOLIS — Among the many questions veteran Twin Cities rapper Maria Isa heard last year during her successful campaign to become a new state legislator, the one that always baffled her was, "Are you going to quit your music career?"

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Lynn Schmidt: Those who hold the line deserve respect, not derision

District of Columbia Officer Michael Fanone and the others who responded to the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, held the line in more ways than one. Sometimes that line can be convoluted and complicated and sometimes it is pretty straightforward.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: For the record: The Jan. 6 closes the books on Trump’s treachery

Hours before its dissolution at noon Tuesday with the ending of the Congress of the last two years and the commencement of the new session, the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol released the last remaining documents from its crucial probe.

Tribune News Service

GOP pull down Capitol metal detectors after its members were fined thousands for dodging them

The Republicans may not have a speaker, but they appear to have made one change in the House

The Independent UK

New documents detail Sen. Ron Johnson asking about electors

Newly released documents from the House Jan. 6 committee show that the former Wisconsin Republican Party chairman testified that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature, rather than voters, choose Wisconsin’s presidential electors

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McCarthy seeks to gut ethics watchdog

McCarthy tries to woo far-right critics by limiting nonpartisan watchdog while empowering the GOP-led House panel

Salon

New Congress to convene, but will McCarthy be House speaker?

The new Congress opens with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy grasping for his political survival

The Independent UK

‘Good riddance’: Republicans remove metal detectors from House chamber

As Republicans took control of the House on Tuesday, they wasted no time in erasing one symbol of the previous era — metal detectors.

Roll Call

Republicans move to retain Jan. 6 committee documents

WASHINGTON — Republicans are attempting to pass a new House rule to block materials compiled by the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection from immediately going to the National Archives.

Los Angeles Times

House GOP zeroes in on Jan. 6 panel documents

The move could signal plans to counter the panel's findings.

Axios

Jan. 6 panel shutting down after referring Trump for crimes

The House Jan. 6 committee is shutting down

The Independent UK

January 6 panel leaders fear GOP will leak names of national security personnel who testified

Select committee leaders fear the incoming Republican majority could jeopardise the safety of national security personnel who work at the White House

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The Independent UK

Karlie Kloss’ tweets about Jan 6 drew ire of Ivanka Trump aide and Hope Hicks, newly released texts reveal

‘Does she get how royally f***ed they all are now?’ Hicks writes

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump's New Year's Eve party - missing kids, worrying words and famous guests

Donald Trump ended a pretty miserable year with a big bash at his Mar-a-Lago mansion - but there were some very notable absences

Tribune News Service

For retiring US Rep. Mike Doyle, 'no regrets' as his consequential career in Congress ends

PITTSBURGH — This was a bad idea, Susan Doyle told her husband.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Kevin McCarthy would do anything to be House speaker. That's the problem

Leave aside the opposition to House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy from a few right-wing lawmakers whom even far-right pundit Mark Levin calls "boneheads."

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Republicans prepare to reopen the House gallery to the public

WASHINGTON — After nearly three years of pandemic- and insurrection-related security restrictions, tourists next week will be allowed into the House gallery, and unescorted visitors on official business will be able to enter House office buildings.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jan. 6 committee withdraws its subpoena to Doug Mastriano and releases a transcript of his brief deposition

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has withdrawn its subpoena to Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano, citing the "imminent end" of its inquiry.

Roll Call

Republicans prepare to reopen the House gallery to the public - Roll Call

Republicans are ready to reopen the House gallery to the public and drop the requirement that visitors to House offices have staff escorts.

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 takeaways: Final revelations from investigation

Interview transcripts released by House investigators in recent days give further insight into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and the weeks leading up to it, as Donald Trump tried to overturn his defeat in the presidential election

The Independent UK

Melania Trump’s hard line on refusing to invite Jill Biden to tea revealed in new Jan 6 transcripts

Former aide Stephanie Grisham told the January 6 committee: “I was flabbergasted. We had never gone along with the West Wing on anything.”

The Independent UK

Trump gloats against ‘political thugs’ of Jan 6 committee after it withdraws subpoena

‘The Subpoena is DEAD!’ says one-time president in fresh Truth Social rant

Tribune News Service

Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin reveals cancer diagnosis

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who was prominent in a House committee’s investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said in a statement Wednesday that he has been diagnosed with cancer.

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