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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is seen at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 26, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Freshly minted Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Monday that he is “wholeheartedly” endorsing the Congressional Leadership Fund, keeping in place the existing infrastructure and team at the super PAC. And Johnson plans to invest significant time and energy raising money for the group, which is the largest spender in House campaigns. His decision sends an important signal to Republican donors spooked by the chaos in the House that there will be continuity in one major campaign entity. The group’s president, Dan Conston,…
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has won back several concessions it made to three major automakers in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, after reaching tentative agreements with all three major U.S. automakers. General Motors was the last of the three to reach a deal with the union Monday, agreeing to largely the same terms that Ford and Stellantis accepted Wednesday and Saturday. The tentative agreements, which still must be ratified by UAW members, would provide a 25 percent general wage increase over the life of the 4.5 year contract, including an immediate 11 percent raise. Notably, the…
On Monday, McConnell will appear alongside Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, at the University of Louisville to again publicly commit the United States to Kyiv’s defense against Russia, a striking move amid the intraparty tension. That follows Sunday show appearances — a rarity for the minority leader — and public and private remarks in the Senate over the past week stumping for a sweeping aid request tying together help for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine as well as border security. It’s too early to count out McConnell, who some suspect could be in his last term leading the…
The cast of the hit television show “Friends” said they are “utterly devastated” by the loss of cast mate Matthew Perry, who died over the weekend at the age of 54. “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We are more than just cast mates. We are a family,” actors Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer wrote in a joint statement to PEOPLE Magazine. “There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.” “In time we will say…
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The Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday it will vote on subpoenas for Harlan Crow and Robin Arkley II — both wealthy Republican donors — and conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo, who have been tied to controversial luxury trips involving Supreme Court justices. “The Supreme Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making,” Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wrote in a joint statement on Monday. “…In order to adequately address this crisis, it is imperative that we understand the full extent of how people with interests before the Court are able to…
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Apple Inc. announced on Monday that the company’s new MacBook personal computers will feature faster M3 chips. In a news release, the company introduced three new M3 chips, M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. The trio of M3 chips offer improved graphics, which includes hardware-accelerated ray tracing processing. Apple said the new hardware will also feature Dynamic Caching, which allocates the use of local memory in hardware in real time, and a unified memory architecture, a feature that “delivers high bandwidth, low latency, and unmatched power efficiency.” The trio of hardware also has an advanced media engine to better support video and…