McCarthy notches win with hard-fought vote to oust Omar
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) chalked up a big victory on Thursday when Republicans rallied to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Omar, a frequent critic of Israel and its human rights record, has been a target of Republicans since her arrival on Capitol Hill in 2019, and McCarthy has vowed for years to remove her from the Foreign Affairs panel if Republicans flipped control of the House. Following through was tougher than he initially thought. With Republicans controlling just a slim majority in the lower
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Nikki Haley will soon become the second major candidate, after former President Trump, to enter the race for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, is expected to make her campaign official at a February 15 event in Charleston. Haley is clearly a serious candidate — but she faces big challenges. Here are five big questions around her candidacy. What’s her appeal? There is a lane for Haley to run in. Whether it could tak
Read MorePentagon: Suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over northern US
The U.S. government is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been flying over the northern part of the country since earlier this week but has held off on shooting it out of the sky, senior defense officials confirmed Thursday. “The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. “The U.S. government . . . continues to track and monitor it closely.” Ryder stressed that the balloon i
Read MoreMcCarthy says he’s forming bipartisan group to write lawmaker code of conduct following Omar vote
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Read MoreHouse passes resolution denouncing socialism, vote splits Democrats
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