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• Usa, the young man who crashed into the White House with a truck ... - breakinglatest.news

  23-05-2023 23:50 via news.google.com
  
  Usa, the young man who crashed into the White House with a truck ...  breakinglatest.news
  
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• House votes in favor of overturning Biden truck pollution rule

  23-05-2023 22:38 via thehill.com
  
  The House voted on Tuesday to overturn a Biden truck pollution rule, teeing up an expected White House veto.The vote was 221-203. Democrats Henry Cuellar (Texas), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) and Mary Peltola (Alaska) voted with Republicans in support of overturning the rule. Republican Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) voted with the rest of the Democrats against doing so. The Biden rule in question, which aims to cut pollution from heavy-duty trucks, would be e
  
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• House overturns Biden truck pollution rule

  23-05-2023 22:38 via thehill.com
  
  The House voted on Tuesday to overturn a Biden truck pollution rule, teeing up an expected White House veto.The vote was 221-203. The Biden rule in question, which aims to cut pollution from heavy-duty trucks, would be expected to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides by 50 percent in the year 2045. These pollutants can worsen respiratory health conditions like asthma and long-term exposure to them can contribute to the development of respiratory infections.​​Propon
  
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• Boebert on birth control: 'It's cheaper to have a kid'

  23-05-2023 22:19 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said during a hearing on drug pricing that she once declined to pay for birth control medicine when she saw how high the price was at the pharmacy.Boebert recalled thinking at the time that “it’s cheaper to have a kid."In a House Oversight and Accountability hearing on the role of pharmacy benefit managers in prescription drug prices, lawmakers questioned the lack of transparency and the high prices of prescription drugs. Boebert asked a witness &md
  
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• Nadler rips GOP reps over debunked story on homeless veterans

  23-05-2023 22:13 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday ripped his Republican colleagues for sharing a debunked story about homeless veterans being booted from hotel rooms to make space for migrants, during a House Judiciary hearing on the U.S.-Mexico border.“Unfortunately, my colleagues are not ones to let facts get in the way of a good story,” Nadler said during the hearing, highlighting a false story that was featured by outlets including the New York Post and Fox News. “This was quickly echo
  
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• Most Americans favor clean debt ceiling increase: poll

  23-05-2023 22:03 via thehill.com
  
  Most Americans favor a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling by itself without spending cuts tied to it, according to a new poll. An NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist national poll found 52 percent of respondents believe Congress should raise the debt ceiling to avoid the country potentially going into default and address any spending cuts separately, while 42 percent said the debt limit should only be raised if major spending cuts are included. Pollsters found a significant difference in prefere
  
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• White House: 14th Amendment won't solve current debt ceiling standoff

  23-05-2023 21:25 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday appeared to rule out the potential for President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment as a workaround to avoid a default during current debt ceiling talks due to legal uncertainties.
  "It is not going to deal with the problem that we’re currently having at this moment, at this time. What we need to focus on is Congress acting," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, pointing to Biden's own recent comments in which he indicated he had the authority to use
  
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• Rick Scott issues travel advisory for 'socialists,' warning Florida is 'openly hostile' to them

  23-05-2023 19:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued what he described as a “formal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,” on Tuesday, warning that the state was “openly hostile” to socialists and their enablers.“The state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,” Scott, who is also the state's former governor, said in a press release."Let me be clear – any at
  
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• McConnell on possibility of default: ‘Everybody needs to relax’

  23-05-2023 19:10 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to calm fears of a possible debt default Tuesday, pleading with everyone to "relax" as talks continue between the White House and House GOP negotiators ahead of the likely June 1 deadline.  “I think everybody needs to relax," McConnell told reporters in his home state, again reiterating that the nation will not default on its payments, a declaration he's repeated throughout the negotiation process. "The last
  
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• House duo introduce bipartisan immigration package offering 'dignity status'

  23-05-2023 19:04 via thehill.com
  
  A bipartisan House duo has introduced a new immigration measure that would offer a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants in the U.S. while investing in border security.The bill comes on the heels of a GOP-passed House bill all but guaranteed to fail in the Senate, which places severe limits on asylum.Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) see their legislation as having a better chance for success that the hardline GOP bill, charging u
  
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• Watch live: White House holds press briefing

  23-05-2023 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is giving a daily briefing to the press on Tuesday afternoon.The Tuesday briefing comes as President Biden seeks to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling with congressional Republicans.
  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) emerged Monday evening from a roughly hourlong meeting with Biden at the White House, saying the latest conversation was “productive,” but that the two sides still don’t have an agreement on how to avoid defa
  
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• DHS unveils body camera guidance for agencies

  23-05-2023 18:39 via thehill.com
  
  Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Tuesday the first department-wide policy requiring its law enforcement officers and agents to wear body cameras when interacting with the public in specified settings. The guidance issued instructs DHS agencies with law enforcement officers to develop agency-specific policies that meet or exceed the standards outlined in the department-wide policy. These agencies — including the U.S. Customs and Border Protec
  
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• GOP skepticism grows over Yellen's June 1 debt ceiling deadline

  23-05-2023 18:36 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans in the House are signaling growing skepticism that the June 1 deadline set by Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen for lawmakers raise the debt ceiling is really set in stone.
  Those doubt are significant since the June 1 deadline is now just more than a week away, and the White House and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are both far apart from a deal.
  Disbelief in the date is fueling the right flank’s argument that Republicans should not give in on their debt limit increase demands ove
  
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• Watch live: FBI, Homeland Security officials testify before House panel on Chinese aggression

  23-05-2023 18:01 via thehill.com
  
  The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence on Tuesday afternoon is holding a hearing on policies of China’s ruling party considered dangerous to the U.S.In a statement, Subcommittee Chairman August Pluger (R-Texas) called attention to police espionage within the U.S. and the fentanyl crisis as examples of threats to national security associated with the Chinese Communist Party.President Biden on Sunday predicted a “thaw” in U
  
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• Trump Justice Department kept Clinton Foundation case open until last days of presidency: report

  23-05-2023 17:43 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) kept an investigation into the Clinton Foundation open until the last days of his presidency, The New York Times reported Monday. The Times reported that documents and interviews with former DOJ officials revealed that the investigation continued significantly beyond the point that FBI agents and prosecutors knew that the case would not result in any charges being filed. The Times obtained the documents through a Freedom of Informa
  
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• Justice digs into Trump attorney notes to bolster case

  23-05-2023 16:21 via thehill.com
  
  Justice Department prosecutors have been pouring over detailed notes from an attorney for Donald Trump on the Mar-a-Lago case to bolster their case that the former president may have committed obstruction of justice.The notes from Evan Corcoran, who has since ceased representing Trump on the matter, show that he explained to Trump that a 2022 subpoena meant he could not keep any classified records, with Trump wishing to fight the effort to compel the documents, according to reporting from&n
  
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• House Republicans cancel markups for spending bills amid debt ceiling talks

  23-05-2023 16:03 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans are canceling this week’s markup sessions for fiscal 2024 government funding bills, as debt limit talks heat up between the White House and GOP leadership.“Given recent developments in the negotiations between Speaker McCarthy and the President, and in order to give the Speaker maximum flexibility as talks continue, the Committee will postpone this week’s markups,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) said in a statement. 
  
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• Special counsel eyeing Trump overseas business: reports

  23-05-2023 15:18 via thehill.com
  
  Special counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena for records of business deals that former President Trump’s company made with seven countries since he took office in 2017, multiple outlets reported Monday. Smith requested information on real estate and development deals that the Trump Organization had with China, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, two people familiar with the matter told The New York Times and one person familiar with the matter
  
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• Surgeon General issues advisory that social media is contributing to youth mental health crisis

  23-05-2023 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is issuing an advisory that social media use may be harmful to the mental health of young people, citing growing evidence that online content is hurting the development of the nation's youth.
  "I'm issuing this advisory because we're in the middle of a youth mental health crisis and I'm concerned that social media is contributing to the harms that kids are experiencing," Murthy told The Hill.Murthy specifically pointed the the possibility of a link between time spent
  
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• McCarthy end game on debt ceiling begins to come into focus

  23-05-2023 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The prevailing account says Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is walking a tightrope over a shark tank in the debt ceiling talks, sidling precariously between a federal default on one side and the loss of his Speakership on the other.The prevailing account might have it all wrong.As McCarthy and President Biden race to find common ground on extending the government's borrowing authority, the Speaker has defied the doubts that came with his arduous path to the gavel, building up trust among his c
  
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• Ron DeSantis expected to announce White House bid on Wednesday - EL PAÍS USA

  23-05-2023 11:13 via news.google.com
  Ron DeSantis expected to announce White House bid on Wednesday  EL PAÍS USA
  
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• Hillary Clinton: Biden has 'good record' but 'people have every right to consider' his age

  23-05-2023 04:18 via thehill.com
  
  Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton said even though President Biden has a “good record” as president, “people still have the right to consider” his age as a factor to re-elect him to another term in office — something she said she supports.During an appearance at the Financial Times Weekend Festival in Washington, D.C., Clinton, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2016, was asked by Financial Times editor Edward Luce about the moment when B
  
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• Jeffries suggests he'd support spending freeze

  23-05-2023 03:05 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that he's open to the idea of freezing spending at current levels in order to secure a debt ceiling deal — an idea supported by President Biden but is sure to infuriate liberals in Jeffries' own Democratic Caucus."As part of the effort to find common ground we're willing to consider freezing spending," Jeffries told reporters outside the Capitol. "That is not an extreme proposal. That is a reasonable proposal."Amid the talks w
  
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• McCarthy: Debt ceiling meeting with Biden 'productive' but no agreement yet

  23-05-2023 01:17 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) emerged Monday evening from a roughly hour-long meeting with President Biden on the debt ceiling saying the latest conversation was “productive,” but that the two sides still don’t have an agreement on how to avoid default just days until the deadline.
  “I felt we had a productive discussion. We don’t have an agreement yet,” McCarthy told reporters after the Oval Office meeting.McCarthy said he believed the tone of the meeting
  
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• Gaetz: 'Only the press' is talking about removing McCarthy

  23-05-2023 00:57 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is batting down suggestions that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) efforts to find a compromise debt limit deal with President Biden could endanger his speakership due to conservative frustration.“Literally nobody except the press is talking about removing McCarthy right now,” Gaetz wrote on Twitter.In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Gaetz said he has “no plans” to try and remove McCarthy “barring some dramatic, unexpected tu
  
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