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• Chrissy Teigen Wants to Remind Everyone That Not Every Woman Wants to Be a Mother

  17-04-2017 20:51
  
  "I don't think any of us should assume all women's goals are to have kids."
  
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• Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so’

  18-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with a porn star.These Republicans, who requested to speak anonymously to discuss the sensitive topic, are accusing Johnson — a devout Southern Baptist who built a career around the fight for Christian va
  
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• Van Jones rails against Greene after spat with Dems: 'She’s a disgrace to that Congress'

  18-05-2024 03:37 via thehill.com
  
  CNN commentator Van Jones slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) following her personal attacks on a fellow member of Congress during a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday night.The committee hearing, held to vote on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, divulged into chaos after Greene made a comment about the appearance of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and her "fake eyelashes."
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• Jeffries calls on Alito to apologize for 'disrespecting' American flag

  18-05-2024 01:16 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Friday to apologize for “disrespecting” the American flag.“Samuel Alito should apologize immediately for disrespecting the American flag and sympathizing with right-wing violent insurrectionists,” Jeffries said in a statement in a press release Friday. “He must recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election and [former President Trump,]” the New York Democra
  
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• Black leaders commemorate 70 years of Brown v. Board with call to action

  17-05-2024 23:57 via thehill.com
  
  Some of the nation’s most prominent Black political leaders and advocates celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Friday by calling for more to be done to end present-day segregation. Many Black leaders have expressed concerns over limitations on Black history and diversity, equity and inclusion programs and the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in schools. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) marked the milestone of the cas
  
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• Raskin says it's 'worth investigating' whether House members were drinking in hearing room

  17-05-2024 22:52 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jaime Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, says it’s “worth investigating” whether lawmakers were drinking during Thursday’s explosive hearing, after rumors circulated that non-committee members were intoxicated.“I didn’t see the drinking by the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury raised it, she said there are members drinking in the room, and that’s something that is worth investigating if th
  
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• Bob Good says Republicans went to Trump trial because of gag order

  17-05-2024 22:35 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said he and fellow Republicans went to former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York City due to a gag order the former president is under. “And they’ve got this gag order against him,” Good said on Fox Business' “Varney & Co.” Friday. “That’s why we went up there, so that we could say the things… this corrupt judge is not allowing him to say.”Good was one of a large group of Republicans that trav
  
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• Kirby on Putin-Xi hug: ‘That’s nice for them’

  17-05-2024 22:10 via thehill.com
  
  White House national security adviser John Kirby weighed in on footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping embracing Friday in Beijing. "That's nice for them," Kirby told reporters when asked for a reaction to the hug between the two leaders. Kirby said it’s “no surprise” that Xi and Putin “continue to try to develop this burgeoning relationship,” but noted that the pair haven’t worked together long, and that officials i
  
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• Greene fracas at hearing leaves lawmakers shaking their heads

  17-05-2024 21:51 via thehill.com
  
  A Thursday night hearing’s descent into chaos earned rebuke from both sides of the aisle after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) attacked another member’s physical appearance, a barb Democrats said had racial undertones.House Oversight lawmakers railed against the episode as “disgusting,” “embarrassing,” and a “middle school fight.”Tempers may have been on edge at the outset of the Oversight panel’s hearing, which was shifted to an 8 p.m.
  
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• Top Biden aide to travel to Saudi Arabia, Israel this weekend

  17-05-2024 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend amid rising international tensions around the Israel-Hamas war, the administration confirmed Friday.
  Sullivan will meet in Saudi Arabia with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday to talk about the war in Gaza and efforts to achieve peace in the region, White House national security communications adviser John Kirby told reporters. Sullivan will travel Sunday to meet with senior I
  
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• Man who attacked Pelosi's husband with a hammer sentenced to 30 years

  17-05-2024 21:44 via thehill.com
  
  The man charged with assaulting former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband in 2022 was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. David DePape, 44, broke into Pelosi’s California home and violently attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer. DePape, who moved to the U.S. from Canada more than two decades ago, was found guilty by a jury in November last year.Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she took into consideration the fact that he broke into the home of an elected
  
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• House approves measure condemning 'calls to defund the police

  17-05-2024 19:43 via thehill.com
  
  The House approved a resolution on Friday that condemns “calls to defund the police,” taking aim at the rallying cry embraced by some progressives amid the Black Lives Matter movement.The chamber approved the four-page measure in a 337-61 vote, with all opposition coming from Democrats, a number of whom are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.The non-binding resolution — which Republicans brought to the floor as part of their Police Week legislative push &mdash
  
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• Biden marks 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education: 'A prayer was answered'

  17-05-2024 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended segregation in public schools. “Seventy years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, a prayer was answered in the long struggle for freedom,” said Biden, speaking from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. He reflected on meeting with members of the
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Fetterman: 'I stand up to bullies'

  17-05-2024 18:43 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) following his derisive comments on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Thursday night that erupted in chaos and was littered with insults. “In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as The Jerry Springer Show,” Fetterman said Friday morning on social media platform X. “Today, I’m apologizing to The Jerry Springer Show.” Ocasio-Cortez, who was one of
  
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• Johnson condemns lawmaker fighting at hearing: ‘Not a good look’ 

  17-05-2024 18:38 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) condemned ,the tone of a raucous Thursday night Oversight Committee hearing saying members need to show decorum.“It's not a good look for Congress,” Johnson told reporters as they asked about a meeting that fell into chaos after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) taunted Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for using false eyelashes.“Decorum is an important principle to maintain.…And we need people on both sides of the aisle to just, I
  
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• CDC to end free COVID vaccine program for uninsured early

  17-05-2024 18:11 via thehill.com
  
  A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said its Bridge Access Program will end in August because of a lack of funding. The program has provided more than 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines since it launched in September 2023 at a cost of more than $1 billion. The Br
  
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• CDC puts early end to free COVID vaccines for uninsured

  17-05-2024 18:11 via thehill.com
  
  A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its Bridge Access Program will end in August because of a lack of funding. The program has provided over 1.4 million free COVID-19 vaccines since it launched in September 2023 at a cost of more than $1 billion. The Bridge Access
  
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• Crockett says Greene behavior was 'absolutely' racist

  17-05-2024 18:10 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) comments about her physical appearance demonstrate that she’s “absolutely” racist."She is racist. I mean, I don't have any questions about that. Because, I mean, I don't know that she's ever attacked her own colleagues,” Crockett said, referring to Greene’s comments during a hearing that descended into chaos after the Georgia lawmaker taunted Crockett over her false eyelashes.She noted
  
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• Fetterman says wild Oversight hearing was worse than 'Jerry Springer Show'

  17-05-2024 17:31 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman says the wild and chaotic scene inside a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday night, which featured lawmakers lobbing multiple appearance-related insults at one another, was worse than an episode of "The Jerry Springer Show.""In the past, I’ve described the U.S. House as 'The Jerry Springer Show,'" the Pennsylvania Democrat said in a Friday post on X."Today, I’m apologizing to 'The Jerry Springer Show,'" Fetterman said.His comparison to the sensati
  
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• House panel accuses Harvard of suppressing antisemitism group's findings

  17-05-2024 16:21 via thehill.com
  
  The House Education and the Workforce Committee released a report Friday it says shows Harvard's lack of action against antisemitism, accusing the top university of suppressing its own antisemitism taskforce’s recommendations. Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group (AAG) was created after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and laid out numerous recommendations to the school to combat discrimination against Jewish students, but, the committee said, “these were never made public or impl
  
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• House GOP releases farm bill proposal as clock ticks

  17-05-2024 16:10 via thehill.com
  
  House Agriculture Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) unveiled his long-awaited farm bill, teeing up the process of wedding the two chambers’ competing visions for the $1.5 trillion package underpinning the U.S. agriculture system.The committee is set to mark up the multiyear package next week, but gaps between the Republican-controlled House version of the bill and summary of the Democrat-controlled Senate released earlier this month must be closed before Congress can pass the bill."The Farm, Fo
  
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• House GOP releases $1.5 trillion farm bill proposal as clock ticks

  17-05-2024 16:10 via thehill.com
  
  House Agriculture Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) unveiled his long-awaited farm bill, teeing up the process of wedding the two chambers’ competing visions for the $1.5 trillion package underpinning the U.S. agriculture system.The committee is set to mark up the multiyear package next week, but gaps between the Republican-controlled House version of the bill and summary of the Democrat-controlled Senate released earlier this month must be closed before Congress can pass the bill."The Farm, Fo
  
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• Morehouse president will cease ceremonies if protesters shout down Biden

  17-05-2024 16:02 via thehill.com
  
  The president of Morehouse College has said he will cease ceremonies during the school’s Sunday graduation if there are major disruptions during President Biden’s scheduled commencement address. “What we won’t allow is disruptive behavior that prevents the ceremony or services from proceeding in a manner that those in attendance can partake and enjoy,” the school’s president David Thomas told CNN, giving the example of “prolonged shouting down of th
  
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• Schiff ‘flabbergasted’ at Johnson appearance outside Trump courthouse

  17-05-2024 14:36 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said he was flabbergasted that Speaker Mike Johnson made an appearance at former President Trump’s hush money trial in New York this week, slamming House Republicans who showed up as greedy for power.Schiff was asked by MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Thursday evening about his thoughts on the gaggle of Republican lawmakers who traveled to Manhattan to support the former president as he sits in court.“I have so many thoughts and let me start with the speaker bec
  
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• House panels vote to hold Garland in contempt 

  17-05-2024 05:31 via thehill.com
  
  Two House committees on Thursday advanced measures to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress in an effort to censure him for failing to turn over audio recordings of the president.A last-minute move from President Biden to claim executive privilege over audio recordings from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur did not dissuade the GOP from proceeding, even as Garland said those asserting the privilege “cannot be prosecuted for criminal contempt of Congress
  
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• Chaos erupts in hearing as Greene, Ocasio-Cortez clash over ‘fake eyelashes’ jibe at Crockett

  17-05-2024 05:27 via thehill.com
  
  A House Oversight Committee hearing devolved into chaos Thursday night as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) clashed after the firebrand Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of wearing “fake eyelashes.”The comment — which was made during a markup to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — prompted nearly an hour of disorder in the committee, with lawmakers screaming over one another a
  
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• Swalwell slams GOP lawmakers for going to see Trump trial

  17-05-2024 04:12 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) went after his GOP colleagues who traveled to New York City to appear at former President Trump’s criminal trial this week.The California Democrat specifically took it to his colleagues who skipped a hearing Thursday over whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt and instead attended Trump’s trial.“Well, it’s nice to see that some of my colleagues on the other side can make it today. I don’t know if that means there w
  
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• Texas Democrat accuses Abbott of 'alliance with white nationalists' over pardon

  17-05-2024 01:46 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro (Texas) on Thursday accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) of having an "alliance with white nationalists" after he pardoned an Army sergeant, who was previously convicted for shooting and killing a Black Lives Matter protestor in 2020.
  “Before Daniel Perry murdered a veteran in 2020, he told a friend he ‘might go to Dallas to shoot looters.’ A year before, he wrote, ‘to [sic] bad we can’t get paid for hunting Muslims,'" Castro wrote in a
  
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• Jeffries calls on Johnson to honor police who defended Capitol on Jan. 6

  16-05-2024 23:48 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to honor the law enforcement officers who defended Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, pressing the Speaker to dedicate a spot in the building for a commemorative plaque.Congress, in March of 2022, had passed a law requiring the placement of such a memorial by March of 2023. More than a year after that deadline, no plaque has been unveiled, and Jeffries is using the arrival of Police We
  
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• Missouri's attorney general accuses Kansas City of doxxing Chiefs kicker

  16-05-2024 23:31 via thehill.com
  
  Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) accused Kansas City of doxxing the Chiefs’ kicker, Harrison Butker, and pledged to hold the city accountable in a statement Thursday.“My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs,” Bailey wrote on the social media platform X, linking to the city’s official government account and to Butker’s account.“I will enforce the Missouri Human
  
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