MSNBC host on Lara Trump takeover: 'Now we've got nepo-RNC'
Associated Press
RNC votes to install Donald Trump's handpicked chair as former president tightens control of partyThe Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s false theories of voter fraud, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote Friday morning in Houston. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.
The Hill
Gingrich: Biden’s most inspirational State of the Union moment was ‘when he left’Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Biden’s most inspirational moment of his State of the Union address was “when he left” Friday. “I think at the end when he left,” Gingrich responded when asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her show, “The Ingraham Angle,” if the president had an “overriding, inspiring…
Reuters
Gaza talks mediators pushing to secure truce, Israel saysCAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) -Efforts to secure a deal on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, Israel's intelligence agency Mossad said on Saturday, despite dimming hopes for a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Mossad chief David Barnea met on Friday with his U.S. counterpart, CIA Director William Burns, to promote a deal that would see hostages released, Mossad said in a statement distributed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.
The Hill
Buttigieg hits back at Speaker Johnson’s criticism of Biden’s SOTU addressSecretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg fired back Friday at House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) criticism that President Biden’s State of the Union address was “hyperpartisan” and “vitriolic.” During a Friday morning appearance on “CNN This Morning,” Buttigieg said some of Johnson’s comments were “literally false,” listing bipartisan legislation that Biden passed through Congress and signed…
The Daily Beast
Tapper Rips Hannity’s SOTU Response: ‘Pick a Lane’CNNJake Tapper on Friday criticized conservatives like Sean Hannity after the Fox News host, who has long attacked President Joe Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” said the president was too energetic during his State of the Union address.On The Lead, the CNN anchor noted that prior to Thursday’s address, Republicans had been saying that Biden was “old, weak, gaffe-prone, senile, a pushover.” Tapper then played a clip of Hannity pivoting away from his usual description of Biden, and instead calling him “Jac
Bloomberg
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The Canadian Press
Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadlineWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. The measure contains six annual spending bills and had already passed the House. In signing it into law, Biden thanked leaders and negotiators from both parties in both chambers for their work,
