#WHIP LIST: Scalise races to lock down votes for Speaker

#WHIP LIST: Scalise races to lock down votes for Speaker

House Republicans on Wednesday officially nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) to be Speaker. But almost immediately, members started expressing their reluctance to vote for him on the House floor — or simply remaining non-committal. In the House GOP’s narrow majority, just a handful of Republican holdouts could set up a floor fight. See who…

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#Washington Post slashing 240 jobs

#Washington Post slashing 240 jobs

The Washington Post says it has plans to do away with more than 200 jobs as a cost cutting measure after prognostications for online readership and subscriptions proved “overly optimistic” heading into 2024. In a note sent to staff on Tuesday and obtained by several media outlets, Patty Stonesifer, thechief executive officer at the Post,…

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#Booker says he’s ‘shaken’ from Hamas attacks

#Booker says he’s ‘shaken’ from Hamas attacks

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Sunday he is “shaken” from Hamas’s attacks on Israel after he and his staff were forced to shelter in place while in Jerusalem on Saturday. “I was in Israel when the horrific attacks carried out by Hamas started on Saturday,” Booker wrote Sunday in a post on X, the platform…

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