The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the case determining Trump's ballot eligibility.
Welcome to Thursday, February 8th, caterpillars and butterflies...
** House GOP members attempted, and failed, to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to indict Mayorkas with crimes and misdemeanors for failing to lock down the U.S.-Mexico border amid a surge of migrant crossings.
House Republicans fell short of the votes they needed due to a small group of GOP members who opposed the effort. Democrats united in voting against the charges as well.
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** Senate's border, Ukraine, and Israel funding deal fails
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The bipartisan Senate package lost Republican support after top GOP members opposed their own addition of a stricter border policy, and called for a standalone international aid package instead.
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** Social media CEO hearing: Main takeaways
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Social media CEOs – Meta, TikTok, Snap, Discord, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week regarding the risk their sites pose to American youth.
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** Big oil studied climate danger earlier than imagined, archives show
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Newly uncovered documents show that the fossil fuel industry funded foundational climate science as early as 1954, indicating the industry's advance knowledge of climate impacts while publicly denying the science.
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** And, in the end...
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Today is National Kite Flying Day. Time to get off the computer, put the screens away, and embrace good old-fashioned fun.
—Jamie Epstein
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