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• Gas prices present glaring problem for Biden

  11-06-2022 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Skyrocketing gas prices are a glaring problem for the White House with no clear, immediate solution.While the administration began the month by pivoting heavily toward its economic message, political watchers say the attempt has so far fallen flat, especially as the national average for a gallon of gas hits a record $5.That, along with inflation, presents a major political challenge for Biden and Democrats going into the midterms. Eighty-five percent of voters said they think inflation is a very
  
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• Pence to travel to see southern border, deliver speech in Arizona: report

  11-06-2022 21:00 via thehill.com
  
  Former Vice President Mike Pence is traveling to see the southern border and deliver a speech in Arizona on Monday, The Arizona Republic reported.Cochise County Sheriff spokesperson Carol Capas said that Sheriff Mark Dannels is expected to brief Pence in Sierra Vista, Ariz., at Cochise College on Monday morning, followed by a visit to a section of the border where the barrier wall ends, according to the news outlet. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) will be visiting the border with Pence.The Ariz
  
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• Republicans pitch religious, family values as gun violence solution

  11-06-2022 18:21 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are pushing traditional religious and family values as a solution to the epidemic of mass shootings in addition to their calls to harden schools and focus on mental health.House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) pointed to a lack of school prayer when talking about gun violence.“We had AR-15s in the 1960s. We didn't have those mass school shootings,” Scalise said during a press conference Wednesday.“Now, I know it's something that some people don't want to talk ab
  
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• Austin says Russian invasion of Ukraine 'preview' of 'possible world of chaos'

  11-06-2022 13:43 via thehill.com
  
  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned in a speech on Friday that the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine is a “preview of a possible world of chaos and turmoil."His remarks, made at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore come as the conflict in Ukraine has raged on for more than 100 days.“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what happens when oppressors trample the rules that protect us all. It’s what happens when big powers decide that their imperial appetites matter mor
  
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• How the Jan. 6 panel is trying to reach the apathetic and apoplectic

  11-06-2022 11:56 via thehill.com
  
  The Jan. 6 committee’s prime-time rollout this week was its first attempt to reach the nearly unreachable: those who have long moved on from the attack.From the apathetic to the apoplectic, the committee is hoping its investigative findings will resonate not just with those who have tuned out in the almost 17 months since the attack, but also with even a sliver of those who are indignant that its investigation has continued.Its goal is to not just to show former President Trump at the cent
  
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• Pence's legal team found election fraud claims minor, unverifiable before Jan. 6

  11-06-2022 04:15 via thehill.com
  
  The legal team of former Vice President Pence found allegations of election fraud either unverifiable or minor in a memo issued just days before a mob stormed the Capitol and tried to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.In the 10-page memo addressed to Pence and dated Jan. 1, 2021, which was obtained and published Friday by Politico, his legal team assessed allegations of election law procedural violations and fraud in the 2020 election in six swing states made by "the G
  
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• President Biden discusses inflation and supply chain issues at Port of L.A.

  11-06-2022 00:55 via youtube.com
  
  
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