GOP outraged Biden won't starve immigrant children.
REPUBLICANS RIP BIDEN FOR NOT STARVING UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT BABIES Republicans criticized the Biden administration for providing food to infants detained in its custody amid a baby formula shortage — effectively suggesting the babies should be starved because of their immigration status. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden announced actions to address the shortage. [HuffPost] JAN. 6 COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS KEVIN MCCARTHY, OTHER REPUBLICANS The bipartisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has taken the unprecedented step of issuing subpoenas for five GOP lawmakers, including House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. [HuffPost] MUSK PUTS TWITTER DEAL ON HOLD Billionaire Elon Musk abruptly put his purchase of Twitter "temporarily on hold," he wrote in a tweet, "pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users." It wasn't clear how the metric has anything to do with his planned purchase. [HuffPost] ASTRONOMERS CAPTURE FIRST IMAGE OF MILKY WAY'S HUGE BLACK HOLE The world got a look at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Previous efforts had found the black hole in the center of our galaxy too jumpy to get a good picture. [AP]
RUSSIAN THREATS PUSH FINLAND TOWARD JOINING NATO The Kremlin warned it may take retaliatory "military-technical" steps after Finland's leaders said they favor joining NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days, in a historic realignment triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. [AP] |
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MADISON CAWTHORN WANTS TO INCLUDE ABORTIONS IN DEATH RATES Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) wants to include abortions in death rates compiled by the government. The embattled far-right lawmaker's legislation would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to include "to the extent possible, aborted children in death numbers and rates." [HuffPost] WOMAN WHO LOST PREGNANCY AT ASTROWORLD FEST SUES TRAVIS SCOTT An Ohio woman and her husband have filed a wrongful death suit against rapper Travis Scott and concert promoter Live Nation, claiming she lost her pregnancy after she was trampled in a massive crowd surge at Scott's Astroworld Festival in November. [HuffPost] AT LEAST 11 DEAD, 31 RESCUED AFTER SUSPECTED MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZES NEAR PUERTO RICO A boat loaded with suspected migrants capsized north of an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico, killing at least 11 people. Thirty-one survivors have been rescued, and a "mass rescue effort" is still underway, U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson Ricardo Castrodad said. [AP] NETFLIX VOWS NOT TO CENSOR 'SPECIFIC' ARTISTS EVEN IF 'HARMFUL' TO EMPLOYEES Netflix is standing by its decision to offer content that employees may find "hard to support" or "harmful," according to a company culture memo. The memo included a suggestion for employees: "If you find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you." [HuffPost] TRUMP FRETS OVER UNDERDOG SURGE IN DR. OZ SENATE RACE The sudden rise of conservative commentator Kathy Barnette in a Fox News poll has Donald Trump apparently worried about his pick in Pennsylvania's GOP Senate race, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz. Republicans, who lost control of the House and Senate while Trump was president, increasingly question the power of his political endorsements. [HuffPost] |
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