Keeping Up With America | | Mike Johnson fights to retain the speaker's gavel — with help from Donald Trump: The House will vote at noon Friday to select a speaker. Johnson is expected to win nearly all Republican votes but just a handful of GOP defections could be enough to stop him. House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to avoid the same fate that his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, experienced two years ago: an embarrassing, drawn-out floor fight for the speaker's gavel.
At least 10 shot outside Queens nightclub as multiple gunmen open fire: Authorities say there is no nexus to terror and all of the victims are expected to survive. At least 10 people were shot when three to four gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a Queens nightclub where a private event was taking place Wednesday night, the New York City Police Department said in a press briefing early Thursday.
Biden to award Presidential Citizens Medal to key members of House Jan. 6 committee: President Joe Biden will award Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who served as chair and vice chair of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, with the Presidential Citizens Medal during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday. | Man who died in Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump hotel ID'd as Army special ops soldier: The truck was rented to Matthew Alan Livelsberger, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News. An Army spokesperson said Livelsberger was on approved leave at the time. A decorated U.S. Army soldier believed to be the person killed in an explosion in a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas sustained what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said Thursday. | Power is restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a major blackout: Residents could still see temporary outages in the coming days. Full power restoration across the island could take up to two days. Power was restored to nearly all electrical customers across Puerto Rico on Wednesday after a sweeping blackout plunged the U.S. territory into darkness on New Year's Eve. |
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| Do you support Mike Johnson keeping the speaker's gavel with Trump's backing? | | | | Around the World | South Korea police search Jeju Air and airport operator over fatal plane crash: The conversion of data from the cockpit voice recorder to audio files, which could provide vital information on the final minutes of the flight, was completed on Thursday, officials said. South Korean police said Thursday they had raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as part of their investigation into Sunday's crash that killed 179 people in the worst aviation disaster on the country's soil. | Ukraine halts flow of Russian gas to Europe: A major natural gas pipeline supplying Russian energy to Europe ran dry Wednesday after Ukraine stopped Moscow's six-decade supply in the hopes of hurting its invader financially. |
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