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A quick recap of the day and what to look forward to tomorrow {beacon} Evening Report Friday, October 13   © The Hill/Greg Nash Jordan gets GOP nod in scramble for Speaker Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday afternoon won a secret ballot among House Republicans to become the next Speaker, but divisions among...

While most Americans have lost faith in lawmakers on Capitol Hill, a healthy majority still trusts their local government, according to a new poll. Gallup's annual trust in government institutions and actors poll found that 67 percent of respondents have a "great" or "fair amount" of faith in local government, while just 32 percent say...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) slammed Republicans on Friday for invoking House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) cancer diagnosis as a reason not to vote for him for Speaker and noted they only raised the concern once Scalise had already clinched the conference's nomination for the role. “I’m dumbfounded that GOP Members (& Trump!) used Steve...

The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 17-year-old who killed four students in a 2021 Michigan shooting, are asking a judge to let them leave jail to attend their son’s sentencing hearing in December. The parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to their son’s case and lost an appeal last...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday announced it is awarding $500 million in grants to support the development of future COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. The funds were granted through the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) as part of the federal government's Project NextGen, which aims to enhance preparedness against...

President Biden on Friday said the terrorist group Hamas, which brutally attacked Israel last weekend, is worse than al Qaeda, the organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. “The more we learned about the attack, the more horrifying it becomes. More than 1,000 — 1,000 innocent lives lost, including at least 27 Americans. These...

The first U.S. flight taking Americans out of Israel landed in Athens, Greece on Friday, a White House official confirmed with Reuters. The State Department announced Thursday it would be arranging to charter flights for U.S. citizens looking to return to America to escape the war between Israel and Hamas.   The flights are for...

House Republicans nominated Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for Speaker on Friday, the conference's second attempt to find a candidate who can win the gavel on the House floor. Jordan, currently chair of the House Judiciary Committee, earned 124 votes to win the nomination over Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.). Scott had mounted a last-minute bid for...

Story at a glance Americans will take prescription medications for longer in the future, according to a recent Pennsylvania State University study. The study found that Americans born in 2019 will spend about half of their lives taking prescription drugs, with American men and women projected to spend 48 percent and 60 percent of their...

Multiple U.S. colleges and professors are getting entangled in controversy over their reactions to the Israel-Hamas war. Stanford University had to release a statement after reports emerged of a “non-faculty instructor” who was said to have “addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds...

Government doesn’t just spend too much of your money; it loses too much of it too. Far too often, Washington spends money on justified causes, such as emergency assistance after a natural disaster or the deployment of rural broadband, but the people it was intended to help rarely see it come into their communities. To...

Progressive lawmakers are urging President Biden to communicate that Israel’s response to the recent brutal attack from Hamas must limit harm to civilians and adhere to international law. “We write to express our concerns regarding the unfolding humanitarian situation in Gaza as Israel responds to Hamas’ terrorist attack,” reads the letter to Biden and Secretary...

New York City Council member Inna Vernikov, a Republican, was arrested Friday after carrying a gun at a pro-Palestine peace rally in Brooklyn the day before, according to a statement from the New York Police Department. Police charged her with criminal possession of a firearm. Vernikov was contacted by police and turned herself in to...

A new documentary produced by former “House of Cards” star Kate Mara and focused on the pork industry promises to tell the “true story of everyday people versus corporate titans, in a battle with life or death consequences.” “I wish people could understand our health is at stake here. To raise animals in this way,...

The Supreme Court on Friday added a second case as it considers overruling a decades-old doctrine that gives executive agencies wide authority to enact regulations, enabling all nine justices to vote on the consequential issue. The court previously agreed to hear a near-identical case, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is recusing herself. By taking up...

Wildfire smoke may linger in homes long after first responders have extinguished the initial blaze, a new study has found. Components of the smoke can attach to home surfaces, such as carpets, drapes or counters — prolonging exposure to those inside and possibly causing health issues, according to the study, which was published Friday in Science...

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday passed a trio of bills targeting transgender young people. The legislation, which would ban gender-affirming health care for minors and prevent transgender girls from competing on women’s K-12 and college sports teams, now heads to the state Senate, where the proposals are expected to pass. The three bills were...

Federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo Thursday that hackers hired by an Israeli private investigator stole communications between climate activists that were later used in court by Exxon Mobil Corp. In the memo, attorneys with the Southern District of New York said Aviram Azari, the defendant in the case, paid for the services of...

This past weekend, we bore witness to a barbaric terrorist attack launched by Hamas against Israel. This attack left more than a thousand innocent people killed, including 27 Americans, with an estimated further hundred people taken as hostages. My heart breaks for the many lives lost, and I stand ready to assist Israel in defending...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday that troops have carried out raids in Gaza during the past 24 hours to "eliminate the threat of terrorists" and locate the roughly 150 hostages who were taken by the Palestinian militant group Hamas last weekend. IDF officials wrote in a Telegram post that soldiers have searched for...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) doubled down Friday on her criticism of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), saying if he becomes Speaker, Republicans will lose control of the House in the next election — and rightly so. “If Rs nominate Jordan to be Speaker, they will be abandoning the Constitution. They’ll lose the House majority and...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Friday it stepping up efforts to enforce policies on violence and misinformation amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The tech giant said it has established a “special operations center” with experts, including fluent Hebrew and Arabic speakers, to monitor the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is criticizing Israel for ordering people to leave the northern part of Gaza, calling it "ethnic cleansing." "The mass expulsion of over 1 million people in a day is ethnic cleansing," Omar said in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "[M]any Palestinians are already wounded,...

U.S. intelligence agencies have not seen any indication of a threat to the United States stemming from the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, the White House said Friday. "I want to be completely and crystal clear on one thing," John Kirby, a spokesperson on national security issues, told reporters. "At this time, none of...

For the better part of two decades, Congress and bureaucrats in Washington quietly debated comprehensive federal data privacy legislation but decided against it. Instead, states have been left to cobble together their own patchwork of rules. The U.S. has long prioritized protecting markets and consumers by regulating different markets differently. Healthcare in America is not...