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Today's headlines: A massive 7.8 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early yesterday morning, which was followed 12 hours later by an aftershock that measured 7.5. George Santos is facing yet another issue before the House Ethics Committee, that being a letter sent to the committee by one of Santos’s former volunteers Derek Myers, alleging Santos of sexual harassment and use of volunteer labor. A bill...

Today's headlines: The Defense Department issued a statement that they were waiting until the Chinese surveillance balloon was over the ocean to shoot it down. The January job report showed non-farm payrolls increased by 517,000, the largest gain since May 2022. News broke on Friday that George Santos told campaign donors in 2021 that he had been a producer of the Broadway musical Spiderman, which...

Today's headlines: The DOJ is in talks with former Vice President Pence’s legal team to schedule a voluntary FBI search of his Indiana home and DC office. Republicans in the House of Representatives garnered enough votes to remove Representative Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Services Committee yesterday. The new republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee is prioritizing pandemic fra...

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Today's headlines: Yesterday, Santos announced that he submitted a request to House Speaker McCarthy to temporarily recuse himself from his assignments on the Small Business and Science committees. New reporting from The Washington Post investigated the real-life impact in Florida schools of a law that took effect last July, which can cause teachers to spend five years in prison and pay a $5,000 d...

Today's headlines: Another Memphis police officer, Preston Hemphill, has been relieved of duty following the death of Tyre Nichols. a San Francisco court released body cam and security footage of the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, as well as audio of the 911 call and the police interview with the attacker, David DePape. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a joint press conference with Israeli Pr...

Today's headlines: The police body camera footage from the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was released on Friday evening. Another exposé involving former Attorney General Bill Barr has come forward, centered around what the piece called a “capital punishment killing spree” under Donald Trump’s administration. California Representative Adam Schiff announced that he will make a bid for Diane Feinstei...

Today's headlines: Charges were brought yesterday against the 5 ex-police officers in Memphis Tennessee, who beat to death a 29-year-old Black man named Tyre Nichols. The democratic-led Virginia state Senate stopped the passage of a 15 week abortion ban which had been proposed by Governor Glenn Youngkin yesterday. On Wednesday, when Santos served surprise Dunkin Donuts with amended campaign filing...

Today's headlines: President Biden announced that the US will be providing the Ukrainians with Abrams tanks. The National Archives is considering whether they will ask all past presidents and vice presidents to review their personal records to verify that no classified materials are there. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made good on his promise to reject the placement of certain Democrats on con...

Today's headlines: 7 people are dead after an incident in Half Moon Bay on Monday; in Oakland California, 1 person was shot dead and 7 others were injured. A lawyer for former Vice President Pence found a small number of classified documents at Pence’s home in Indiana. An appearance by George Santos on a Brazilian podcast from December 2022 has surfaced, where he claims (in Portuguese), that he wa...

Today's headlines: The death toll has now risen to 11 people from Saturday night’s mass shooting in Monterey Park, and law enforcement has been able to learn new details about the evening. Verdicts came down in 2 separate January 6th trials yesterday, with guilty results across the board; In a separate trial, a DC jury found the insurrectionist who sat in Nancy Pelosi’s chair guilty on all 8 count...

Today's headlines: 10 people were killed and 10 others injured over the course of two shooting incidents in Los Angeles on Saturday night. The FBI conducted a voluntary search of President Biden's Wilmington Delaware home on Friday, and found another 6 papers marked classified from his vice presidency. There’s been pretty much no progress on raising the debt limit since last week, with the White H...

Today's headlines: News broke that a federal judge in Florida fined Donald Trump and his head lawyer almost 1 million dollars for filing a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others in an effort to sue them for trying to rig the 2016 presidential election. The US officially hit the debt limit yesterday. A popular Brazilian drag artist named Eula Rochard, posted a photo where she is smiling next to...

Today's headlines: The United States is expected to hit the debt ceiling today because the House of Representatives is refusing to vote to raise it. New reports continue to arise about George Santos, who has still not resigned from Congress. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin spoke on a panel at the World Economic Forum, where they high-fived over the preservation of the filibuster. Finally f...

Today's headlines: The Committee on Oversight and Reform will be led by Representative James Comer and will feature Scott Perry, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert. Solomon Pena, a failed republican candidate for the New Mexico state house, has been arrested for orchestrating the recent string of 4 attempted shootings that targeted newly elected state officials in New Mexico. T...

Today's headlines: The U.S. could hit its debt ceiling within days. As California enters its third week of flooding, blizzards, power outages, and other general terror, experts say that the worst should be over this week. A new survey by the Anti-Defamation League found that the percentage of Americans who believe in a number of anti-semitic tropes, has spiked in the past three years. Last week th...

Today's headlines: A video from 2019 has resurfaced in which George Santos identifies himself as Anthony Devolder, and the founder of something called ‘United For Trump’; New reporting has revealed that Santos’s most recent job was to raise money for a small, Florida-based investment firm called Harbor City Capital; In 2021, the year after Santos began working there, the SEC said that Harbor City...

Today's headlines: Two democratic representatives from New York, Dan Goldman and Richie Torres, have formally requested that the House ethics committee investigate George Santos. Garland  has appointed a special counsel to investigate the found classified Biden documents. inflation dropped to 6.5% in December. The safety commission chair says he’s not seeking a gas operated stove ban following a r...

Today's headlines: Aides to President Biden have discovered at least one other batch of classified documents from during his vice presidency. At least 17 people have died in California over the course of the past 11 days of storms as of Tuesday. Republicans from Nassau County where George Santos is located have called for him to resign. Thousands of domestic flights across the US were canceled yes...

Today's headlines: a suspect has been taken into custody yesterday following a string of six shootings in New Mexico that began in early December and targeted state Democratic officials. Representative Katie Porter of California stated that she plans to run for senator in 2024, but Diane Feinstein has not yet announced that she plans to retire from said position. One of George Santos’s campaign fu...

Today's headlines: The House of Representatives voted to pass their new rules package last night, which will govern the next two years under Speaker Kevin McCarthy. a nonpartisan organization, the Campaign Legal Center, filed a complaint yesterday accusing George Santos of a smattering of campaign finance violations. Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a US attorney in Chicago to review...

Today's headlines: After 15 rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy is now the new Speaker of the House. President Biden made the first visit of his presidency to the southern border near El Paso yesterday. Swaths of northern and central California remain under extreme flood risk for the second week in a row. Conservative leader Matt Schlapp allegedly fondled a male staff member of Walker’s campaign in O...

Today's headlines: The House of Representatives is now 11 rounds deep into voting for the Speaker of the House. The South Carolina Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks yesterday. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is now awake and has shown substantial improvement in the past 24 hours. Finally for this week, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced th...

Today's headlines: Kevin McCarthy has failed in another 3 rounds of voting in order to become Speaker of the House. Congressional republicans are planning to attempt to eliminate House staff labor unions, while also making it harder to raise the debt ceiling. California declared a state of emergency yesterday after the third rainstorm in the past week hit northern and central California. The email...

Today's headlines: The House has adjourned with no speaker after McCarthy fails to win a third ballot. Members of Brazilian law enforcement announced that they intend to revive previous fraud charges against George Santos. New reporting from The New York Times has revealed that a non-profit known as the Supreme Court Historical Society has raised over 23 million dollars in the past 2 decades from...