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The Birmingham News reports: U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama introduced a bill today that would require child support throughout pregnancy and create a clearinghouse of adoption and anti-abortion pregnancy crisis centers to combat decreasing birth rates. Britt introduced the More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed Act (MOMS Act) alongside co-sponsors Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.). …

Politico reports: Kari Lake has not managed a clean pivot from her hard-right roots. In the past month alone, she publicly waffled on her opposition to Arizona’s near-total abortion ban and returned to the flamethrowing rhetoric of her last run when she urged voters to “strap on a Glock” to prepare for 2024. That’s all given the GOP some pause. …

Fox News reports: Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., formally filed articles of impeachment against President Biden on Friday over his recent comments about withholding offensive weapons aid to Israel, drawing parallels to House Democrats’ first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. The first-term House Republican told Fox News Digital it was his “constitutional duty” to do so. His legislative text, first …

The Texas Gazette reports: The House Ethics Committee revealed ongoing investigations Thursday of U.S. Reps. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, and Wesley Hunt, R-Houston. The committee included no details of allegations against the Texans, and it was unclear whether their cases are related. The committee said in May 2022 that Jackson was the subject of a probe into whether he used campaign …

“So you got to remember Fox News literally fired Tucker Carlson, the number one cable TV news host in the nation. Tucker, who was basically the voice of everyone, that’s the Fox News that refused to cover me calling the motion to vacate. “The Five never switched gears, they never changed, never went to anything different. Fox News wants to …

The Daily Mail reports: The Republican congresswoman fired or lost nine staffers from her Washington D.C. office in three months – and many of them trashed her to the media on the way out. Now, the South Carolina lawmaker has dramatically hit back and accused the former aides of sabotage in an extraordinary interview with DailyMail.com. Mace, 46, says the …

The Miami Herald reports: Conventional political wisdom would typically advise candidates to steer clear of mentioning their past controversies. But U.S. Sen. Rick Scott went out of his way, quite literally, on Thursday to attend former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan and remind Americans that he once ran a healthcare company that was slapped with the largest Medicare …

Courthouse News reports: A New York appellate court upheld universal mail-in voting for the state Thursday, finding that the state’s constitution places no hard limits on who can cast an absentee ballot. “The fact remains that, in its current form, the NY Constitution contains no requirement — express or implied — mandating that voting occur in-person on election day,” Justice …

Axios reports: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is making stealthy, aggressive moves to position himself to replace Speaker Mike Johnson as party leader in 2025. The Ohio Republican has been noticed handing out more campaign checks to colleagues, multiple lawmakers told Axios. One GOP lawmaker told Axios that Jordan previously said it was “not his job” to help vulnerable …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: A group of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Thursday to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding testimony for blocking a member of Congress from speaking to former Trump White House official Peter Navarro. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the letter, which was signed by …

“We are going to jail all criminals like you [Hillary Clinton] and your husband, the sexual predator. There’s going to be a great accounting, transparency, we’re going to go back to — this is what the House should be doing now. “You see how she’s nervous about it? She’s sitting there on the sofa, well maybe he won’t jail all …

The Huffington Post reports: Trump, the GOP’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, has openly fantasized about executing drug dealers and human traffickers. He reportedly suggested that officials who leak information to the press should be executed, too. And behind the scenes, there’s a team of pro-Trump conservatives who are pushing for a second Trump term that involves even more state-sponsored killing …

The Guardian reports: Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, announced felony charges Tuesday against Stefanie Lambert, an election-denying attorney, and Stephanie Scott, a former small-town election clerk, over an alleged 2020 voter data breach. Nessel’s office alleges Lambert and Scott allowed an “unauthorized computer examiner” to access private voter data from the 2020 general US election and that Scott illegally withheld …

CNBC reports: Rupert Murdoch has hinted to several friends who move in Trump’s social circles that he would be happy with a Republican ticket that included Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, according to sources familiar with the matter. Billionaire Trump backers in the real estate industry have told the former president’s advisers that they like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, according …

“The testimony of Stormy Daniels that was salacious—that was the point of it! Listen there is no person on planet Earth that believes Donald Trump has been celibate all his life. That is not news. But they want to drag him through the gutter because this is a political smear job. It’s not about the rule of law. It’s tragic …

CNN reports: GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said in a closed door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the Ku Klux Klan is the “the military wing of the Democratic party” and that migrants coming to the US “have no interest in being Americans,” according to audio of Perry’s comments shared with CNN. Perry, a right-wing Republican who has …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani’s accountant recently quit, and no one else will provide him with similar services, a new bankruptcy filing says, suggesting he is now personally filing mandatory operating reports in his bankruptcy case — explaining why some reports were several weeks late. In late April, attorney Gary Fischoff asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane to modify …

The New York Times reports: Lawmakers widely booed Ms. Greene as she called up the resolution and jeered several times as she read it aloud. As she recited the measure, a grievance-laden screed that lasted more than 10 minutes, Republicans lined up on the House floor to shake Mr. Johnson’s hand and pat him on the back. The chamber then …

The Independent reports: A US Congressman who came under fire for defending racist counter-protests at the University of Mississippi has sparked fresh outrage after making a poor-taste joke about the Kennedy family. Mike Collins, a Republican from Georgia, was described as “sick and deplorable” after posting a message seemingly about reports that a worm had eaten part of Robert F …

The Daily Beast reports: On the same day as her combative interview on Fox’s sister network, the South Dakota governor bailed on sitting down with Fox News host Greg Gutfeld because of bad weather. In turn, the primetime star brutally roasted her. A source familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast that the governor’s team specifically cited a snowstorm …