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Jose Luis Magana/AP Republicans have chosen Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., to be their nominee for House speaker in a closed-door, secret-ballot election. Scalise defeated House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, by a vote of 113-99. That gave Scalise a narrow majority of the Republicans’ 221 votes in the chamber, …

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — An encore episode of ‘General Hospital’ will air on Tuesday, October 10 due to an ABC News Special Report. The originally scheduled episode of “General Hospital” will air on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. With more than 15,000 episodes and counting, “General Hospital” is the longest-running daytime …

On October 7, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 418, known as the California Food Safety Act, into law. The historic legislation bans the “manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale” of food products that contain four additives currently found in about 12,000 candies, cereals, and sodas. The contentious bill …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday is set to visit the College of Charleston. This stop is one of many along her “Fight for Our Freedoms College Tour,” which focuses on critical issues that affect young Americans. Harris is expected to address several topics, including reproductive …

The Gates Foundation announced Monday it will invest $40 million in several African manufacturers to produce and provide access to mRNA vaccines on the continent. In a release, the foundation said the initiative will build on lessons learned from 20 years of working with vaccine manufacturers to “leverage recent scientific …

  Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who are both facing tough re-elections next year, on Tuesday said the Biden administration should immediately “freeze” the $6 billion in funds that are set to be released to Iran as part of a prisoner exchange. The leading Democratic centrists voiced their opposition …

X under fire over Israel misinformation frenzy  Experts said changes to Twitter, now known as X, under Elon Musk have created a platform ripe for the spread of misinformation. False claims have spread across X since the Saturday launch of Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, including posts of prior Israeli airstrikes being misrepresented as …

As climate change bakes the U.S. West and dries up key Colorado River reservoirs, a slew of invasive species is flourishing in warmer waters at the expense of the artery’s native inhabitants. Scientists have expressed particular concerns about one such species, the smallmouth bass, which has made its way downstream since its …

Former President Trump insinuated former President Barack Obama is President Biden’s boss at an event in New Hampshire Monday. “You’ve been ripped off by everybody and betrayed by the corrupt globalists, Washington, Wall Street people, those combinations of Washington, Wall Street, they’re the worst of all. And it’s never been worse than it is now …

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the North Carolina Democratic Party on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Election immediately after a pair of GOP-backed election laws went into effect when the state legislature voted to override the Democratic governor’s veto on Tuesday. The lawsuit …