Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson next week

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• District 3
• Israel-Hamas war protesters and police clash on Texas campus, Columbia University begins suspensions
• The winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race and geopolitics
• (VIDEO) House Freedom Caucus members say debt limit deal 'fails completely'
• The House has begun voting on the debt ceiling deal
• McCarthy picks up more Republican votes

Manchin said that Kaine is “putting up a gallant fight” and that “I respect where he’s coming from." “I’ve for years said we’re not going to put our thumb on the scale, and now the White House in Congress is set to put the thumb on the scale," he said Wednesday. The official also said White House staff members have been touch with members tonight, as well. Biden thanked McCarthy for "negotiating in good faith" and touted the agreement's protections for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. "From the beginning of this manufactured crisis, Democrats have been committed to doing what is responsible — preventing a catastrophic default and protecting the services Americans rely on. Tonight, we upheld that commitment," Clark, D-Mass., said in a statement. Asked to elaborate, he said, "He does not have much power when he relies on Democrats to keep him as speaker."

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It's still unclear whether the House has plans to convene tomorrow should another round of voting fail today. Even before the vote started, McCarthy made one big concession, backing the hard-right faction's proposal for a five-vote threshold to remove the speaker. "For many in the Congress and across our country, the physical, psychological, and emotional scars are still raw. Yet from the unspeakable horror sprang extraordinary heroism," Pelosi said. Lawmakers have been bringing their dogs to the Capitol (where the pets did their share of sitting in on floor debates, fighting with each other and getting loose) since the 1800s, as NPR reported several years ago.

Israel-Hamas war protesters and police clash on Texas campus, Columbia University begins suspensions

The House has been working for 10 weeks straight, an unusually long time without a break, and several of them were spent on an ugly fight over the speaker's gavel. Then, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., tried to start a physical fight with a committee witness, the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had to break it up, yelling at both men and banging his gavel. Senate Republicans are trying to use the fact that there is no pending business before the Senate — because they’re waiting for the House to pass this CR so they can start considering it — to try to force consideration of the House-passed Israel aid bill.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said she will vote "no" on the debt deal, which the House is set to vote on tonight. Senate leaders are likely to try to come to some kind of agreement on allowing senators a series of amendment votes to speed things up. The amendments would almost certainly all fail, to avoid blowing up the deal, but they would give senators a chance to vote their opinions and get their colleagues on the record, as well.

The House passed a resolution in support of Israel in the war against Hamas – the first measure to come to the floor after Speaker Mike Johnson was elected earlier Wednesday following three weeks without a speaker. Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., one of McCarthy's allies who helped negotiate the debt ceiling deal in the room, challenge conservative opponents to debate the merits ahead of tonight's vote. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., who floated forcing a vote to remove McCarthy as speaker over the debt deal this week, also known as a "motion to vacate," said tonight that the discussion will happen "in the next week or two."

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy, had an odd run-in with the former speaker in the halls this morning. House Dem leadership endorsed Johnson's two-step CR in a statement before the vote, saying it’s “devoid of harmful cuts and free of extreme right-wing policy riders." The members who ousted McCarthy also told reporters that they have no regrets now about ousting McCarthy.

The House has begun voting on the debt ceiling deal

Another video shows officers packing a stairwell and passing chairs to one another. In a statement to CNN, the university said, “This matter is under review.” CNN has reached out to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for comment. The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AZ), condemned the university police for the recorded incident and others like it and called for a full investigation.

McCarthy picks up more Republican votes

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The nearly 90 people gathered in the diner in February were there to understand how they can do their part in a plan to sue California to block certification of the 2024 election results unless the state can prove that ballots were cast only by people eligible to vote. Over mugs of coffee and plates of pot roast smothered in gravy, attendees in MAGA and tea party gear took notes about the landmark Voting Rights Act and studied the U.S. They peppered self-proclaimed “election integrity” activist Marly Hornik with questions about how to become skilled citizen observers monitoring California poll workers. Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on the campus in upper Manhattan, the focal point of the nationwide student protests. Officers used an armoured vehicle with a bridging mechanism to gain entry to the second floor of the building. There were signs over the weekend that violence at the site of UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampment was escalating, with reports of pushes, shoving and punches thrown and a university spokesperson confirming “physical altercations among demonstrators”.

There’s a little bit of San Fernando Valley to the south, a big chunk of Antelope Valley to the north, but the heart of this district is Santa Clarita. This is a historically conservative valley, populated by the “white flight” out of Los Angeles proper in the 1970s and domicile to many a suburb-seeking cop. But few places are as emblematic of the suburban shift away from the Republican Party during the Trump years as this part of northern Los Angeles County. Starting on the Valley side of the Tehachapis, the district runs east of downtown Bakersfield before spanning northward all the way to Tulare, Hanford and Kettleman City.

A few, including Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, could not suppress a slightly sardonic tone even in expressing relief. NATO allies that feel more directly threatened by Russia, including the Baltic states and Poland, have long viewed the conflict with a sense of crisis and urgency, and were at times incredulous as U.S. support appeared to flag. From Dana Point to Encinitas, this coastal stretch of SoCal is bisected by the Camp Pendleton Marine base. That also marks a pretty good political demarcation, with voters in tony south Orange County leaning Republican and those in the coastal cities of north San Diego County skewing Democratic.

The House has just gaveled the vote, formally passing the debt ceiling bill, which now goes to the Senate ahead of Monday's deadline to act. Biden expressed relief in a statement tonight over a "critical step forward" to prevent default while urging the Senate to quickly pass the legislation. President Joe Biden worried that there wasn’t enough time for the inevitable court challenge to play out if he went down that road.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Josh Hawley of Missouri said this morning that they'll oppose the debt ceiling deal. Asked by reporters today about his stance on eliminating the debt ceiling altogether, McCarthy said, "I like having a debt limit." The House tonight has reached the 218-vote majority needed to pass the debt ceiling bill, in spite of opposition from some hard-line Republicans.

Officers were seen leading protesters handcuffed with zip-ties to a line of police buses waiting outside campus gates. Late on Tuesday, New York City police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed up in an academic building on Columbia University campus in New York and removed a protest encampment that the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks. “This is stuff that only happens in movies,” Harris said he thought at the time, describing the experienced of masked counter-protesters marching through campus as surreal. Officers entered Hamilton Hall, which had been occupied by protesters since the early morning hours Tuesday. Columbia University’s property has been cleared, the New York Police Department told CNN, less than two hours after officers entered the school’s campus in Morningside Heights. A lead student negotiator for protesters at Columbia University has told CNN that protests will continue on the campus despite the school's request for a police presence.

Rosendale just voted for Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, meaning McCarthy will most likely not have the votes he needs to secure the speakership. “Given the developments on the House floor, this event is now being hosted exclusively by Mr. Thompson’s personal office rather than the House Committee on Agriculture,” said Maddison Stone, press secretary for Thompson, in an email. Hornik admits that her group does not expect to win a lawsuit against California.