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The Hill reports: The White House on Monday started accounts on Threads, the social media platform launched by Meta. The administration announced the creation of accounts for President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, as well as accounts for the White House and a Spanish version, La Casa Blanca. The White House account …

The Associated Press reports: Liberty and Bell are ready for their presidential pardons. The two Thanksgiving turkeys were due at the White House on Monday to play their part in what has become an annual holiday tradition: a president sparing them from becoming someone’s dinner. President Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, also was celebrating his 81st birthday …

Politico reports: As Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams attended nearly 80 events over eight years to celebrate Turkey — including a flag-raising in 2015, a charity ball in 2018 and a Zoom meeting with the Turkish consul in 2020. In 2019, as he was embarking on a run for New York City mayor, he joined Martha Stewart at a gala …

NPR reports: President Biden signed a short-term government funding bill on Thursday, avoiding a potential government shutdown and pushing into next year debates about wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel. Biden’s approval came a day after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the stop-gap spending bill. The measure, designed by new House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., funds four federal agencies until Jan. …

Courthouse News reports: A man who assaulted a congresswoman in her apartment building in February was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Thursday. Kendrid Hamlin, a 27-year-old homeless man who suffers from schizophrenia, followed Representative Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota, into an elevator, where first he said he needed to get into her apartment, then punched her in …

The Detroit News reports: Michigan U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Flint-area Democrat whose family has represented Michigan in Congress since 1977, said Thursday he won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. His retirement after six terms will present an opening for House Republicans to try to flip his highly competitive seat in Michigan’s 8th District that covers Genesee, …

The Messenger reports: A Noble Predictive Insights poll conducted via online panel October 25-31 among 1,010 registered voters found Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego leading a hypothetical three-way Senate race with 39% support, followed by 2022 GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake at 33% and the incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at 29%. Sinema has yet to say whether or not she will …

The Associated Press reports: West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, days removed from announcing he won’t seek reelection, said Wednesday that if the nation’s voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.” Manchin, whose home state voters overwhelmingly backed Trump in the last two presidential elections, made the comment on a …

Axios reports: Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, who along with his twin brother Alexander drew former President Trump’s ire during his first impeachment, is running for Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s seat. If he wins the primary, Vindman could help the Democratic party’s broader attempt to make the 2024 election a referendum on the former president and GOP presidential frontrunner. He is the …

The Associated Press reports: New York’s highest court will hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit that could reshape congressional districts in the state, which is expected to be a key battleground next year in the fight for control of the U.S. House. The Court of Appeals is holding the hearing in Buffalo as Democrats seek to scrap the state’s district …

Axios reports: New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy on Wednesday announced her run for U.S. Senate in 2024. She’s the second high-profile Democrat to jump into the race in the wake of a federal indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who hasn’t said if he is running for reelection. Rep. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) announced his run for the seat in …

“In just the last few days, Trump has said if he returns office he’s gonna go after all those who oppose him and wipe out what he called the vermin in America, quote ‘the vermin’ in America — a specific phrase because it’s just a specific meaning. That’s anguage you heard Nazi Germany in the 30s. That is not even …

The New York Times reports: Federal authorities are investigating whether Mayor Eric Adams, weeks before his election two years ago, pressured New York Fire Department officials to sign off on the Turkish government’s new high-rise consulate in Manhattan despite safety concerns with the building, three people with knowledge of the matter said. After winning the Democratic mayoral primary in July, …

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden is shifting more into campaign mode, with plans to increasingly attack his likely 2024 Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, after some of his allies have urged him to do so in recent days, according to five people familiar with the matter. Biden personally made the decision to criticize Trump on more than policy …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) will not seek reelection in Virginia’s 7th District next year so she can run for Virginia governor in 2025, according to two people familiar with the Democrat’s plans. Spanberger, who won a third term last year in one of the state’s most competitive swing districts, will announce her gubernatorial bid very soon, …

The Messenger reports: Sen. Joe Manchin’s launch of a national “movement to mobilize the middle” began in earnest Friday as he spoke at an event in Georgia focused on political civility. “This is going to be the birthplace of civility in the political process now,” Manchin said at the University of Georgia’s inaugural Isakson Symposium on Political Civility, named after …

The New York Times reports: F.B.I. agents seized Mayor Eric Adams’s electronic devices early this week in what appeared to be a dramatic escalation of a federal corruption investigation into whether his 2021 campaign conspired with the Turkish government and others to funnel money into its coffers, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The agents approached the mayor …

Buffalo’s NBC affiliate reports: 2 On Your Side has learned from several sources that longtime U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins plans to step down. We are being told that Higgins is planning to leave his position in Washington to take over as the new president and CEO at Shea’s Performing Arts Center. Higgins has served as a congressman since 2005. He …

Axios reports: After Ohio’s vote Tuesday to protect abortion rights, Democrats are rushing to get similar measures on the ballot next year in key states such as Arizona, Nevada and Florida — partly to boost President Biden and down-ballot Democrats. Voters now have explicitly endorsed abortion rights via ballot initiatives in seven states since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. …

The New Jersey Advance reports: Democrats not only kept but strengthened their 20-year control of the New Jersey Legislature in the state’s elections Tuesday, fending off a fierce threat from Republicans hungry to seize on gains in recent years and maybe even wrest a chamber away in a charged political environment. Democrats flipped a key Senate seat in South Jersey’s …