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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who was seeking an injunction blocking him from having to appear before a grand jury to give testimony regarding an election interference inquiry in the state of Georgia.Graham had previously lost an appeal from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals  after a district judge ruled that he had to appear before the grand jury to give testimony regarding his conversations with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) relating to the state's 2020 presidential election outcome.

"By passing this bill we will avoid default tonight.America can breathe a sigh of relief," Schumer said.Without the agreement, which requires buy-in from all 100 senators, a vote on the debt deal could have pushed well into next week - past the default deadline.That puts the bill back on track after defense hawks had thrown in some last-minute drama, demanding Thursday afternoon that Schumer commit to a standalone, supplemental defense spending bill, as well as pledge to take up all 12 annual appropriations bills as a condition for moving forward quickly.

Russell Brand railed against MSNBC in an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher last week, accusing the network of propaganda on the same scale as Fox News.Brand's ruthless criticism of the cable news network came in response to fellow guest John Heilemann, an MSNBC analyst, who called out Fox News over revelations in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.

By all accounts, the arrangement is rooted in a long and friendly relationship between Feinstein and the Pelosis - twin pillars of San Francisco politics.But among some of those who are aware, it has also raised uncomfortable questions about whether Nancy Pelosi's political interests are in conflict with Feinstein's personal interests.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday pushed back on claims that her extended absence from the Senate, and the Judiciary Committee, as she recovers from shingles has caused a significant delay in advancing and confirming judicial nominees.Feinstein indicated in the statement that she still plans to return but did not say when that would happen.

Several key Republican senators on Tuesday pushed back against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' recent comments that US support for Ukraine is not a vital national interest, exposing a key intraparty fault line ahead of the 2024 election.To say this doesn't matter is to say that war crimes don't matter, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression will go beyond Ukraine and that if you don't get that, you're not listening to what he's saying.

McCarthy, flanked by RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and House GOP campaign arm chief Tom Emmer (R-Minn.),claimed that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) lost his race and would be the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair to be ousted in 40 years, and that Republican candidate Anthony D'Espocito had won his seat in New York.

Some Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they want to see more transparency around the Supreme Court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices who exempt themselves from many of the ethics rules that lower courts follow.The debate coming after several weeks of reports of alleged ethical lapses by the justices that have dominated headlines was the subject of a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where a law professor, legal advocates and two former judges, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, testified on whether Supreme Court ethics reform was warranted.

Congress now appears to be on a glide path to pass the spending package, which gives the Pentagon a 10 percent budget boost, includes about $45 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine and provides nearly $40 billion for disaster aid.The legislation is the final item on lawmakers' to-do list before they leave for the year, with many eager to get out of town as a winter storm threatens to lock down half the country.

America voted out of office its mendacious president in 2020.But across the border, Mexico grapples with its own delusional leader, who recently barked out a whopper of an untruth.Meeting with White House Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador earlier this month insisted that his nation doesn't produce fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for the deaths of more than 70,000 Americans in 2021.