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Oct 06 2023
News
Exclusive: The banks that funded Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter deal may have a ‘sell down letter’ to prevent them from breaking ranks
Due to X’s terrible financial performance, Elon Musk now has an upper hand negotiating with the banks. But Fortune has learned that that three of the seven lenders that funded Musk’s deal to buy Twitter may have formed a group designed to protect themselves from the chaos that would be associated with a fire sale, according to a source familiar with the deal. Because of the shocking
FortuneNov 04 2023
News
Pro-Palestine protests in DC and across the US call for a ceasefire
As Israel continues its fourth week of intense bombardment of the besieged Gaza strip, huge crowds of protesters have gathered to call for a ceasefire in Washington, D.C. as well as in other capital cities around the globe. Saturday’s turnout is a continuation of protests that have emerged across the world in response to Israel’s intense retaliation for the October 7th Hamas terror attacks,
CNN (Online News)Nov 27 2023
News
The Uselessness of the U.N. Has Been on Full Display Since October 7
Is it not right to ask what exactly the U.N. does for human freedom, or, more practically speaking, for the U.S. taxpayer?
In Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works Agency, UNRWA, is viewed as an adjunct of Hamas, and it has done little to belie that oft-leveled accusation. UNRWA’s employees are often Hamas members, the agency’s school curriculum buttresses Hamas’s anti-Israel and
National Review (News)Nov 08 2023
Opinion
3 absurd claims about the Lewiston shooting made by gun control activists
An Army Reservist and military firearms instructor with a history of serious mental health problems murdered 18 people and wounded 13 others Oct. 25 at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine.
Robert Card, 40, led state and local law enforcement agencies on a multiday manhunt that left an entire county of terrified Maine residents locked in their homes. Ultimately, he killed
Washington ExaminerOct 05 2023
News
Democrats finish GOP’s civil-war battle with McCarthy’s ouster
The first thing to understand about the House voting out its speaker for the first time in our history is this: Kevin McCarthy’s ouster was not the result of an intraparty civil war. It was a consequence of the opposing party taking advantage of the GOP’s chaos, dysfunction and disorder. Put simply, the Republicans gave the Democrats a gun, but never believed they’d pull the trigger. They did
AlterNetOct 09 2023
News
Surprise Attack on Israel Draws Fears U.S. Could be Next
McCarthy: ‘We could have the same thing happen next week to us’ The mass terror strikes in Israel this weekend should serve as a "wake up" call for Americans, according to former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), who told the Washington Free Beacon in a wide-ranging interview that the chaos at the U.S. southern border could set the stage for a similar type of terror attack. "We should
Washington Free BeaconOct 02 2023
News
Bowman’s fire alarm fallout
Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling the fire alarm at the Capitol complex was, as an apt Twitter account dubbed it, a . The Yonkers Democrat said it was a mistake. There was no fire. He said he was rushing Saturday to get to a vote and got confused by But a different narrative spread faster than non-existent fire: Bowman was a chaos agent, Republicans said, trying to buy Democrats more time on the
PoliticoOct 09 2023
News
Trump accuses Biden of betraying Israel during New Hampshire stop
Former President Donald Trump railed against President Joe Biden for wreaking "weakness, conflict, and chaos" with his foreign policy after Hamas's deadly terrorist attacks against Israel. Biden "betrayed" Israel, according to Trump, who promised that if he wins the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, as he is poised to do, and next year's election, he would "once again stand strongly"
Washington ExaminerOct 04 2023
News
McCarthy ouster raises specter of shutdown
The ouster of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as speaker plunged the House of Representatives into chaos weeks before a funding deadline for the government adding fuel to a perception by investors that the world's largest economy is struggling to get its fiscal house in order. A group of hardline Republicans led by Representative Matt Gaetz from Florida, angry at McCarthy's bipartisan deal to
NewsweekOct 04 2023
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After McCarthy’s Ouster, House Faces Uncharted Path Forward
The House vote to oust Kevin McCarthy from his post on Tuesday marked a historic first, as a group of conservatives sided with Democrats to successfully boot him from the speakership. But it also marked the beginning of an unprecedented period in Congress, descending the chamber into a new kind of chaos. Immediately following the vote to oust McCarthy, a temporary speaker – Rep. Patrick
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