News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy said five conservative hardliners have not budged in their opposition to his speaker’s bid, offering dire warnings that their hard-fought Republican majority could be derailed if they don’t bend https://t.co/OixUiUsgse
— CNN (@CNN) December 17, 2022
A bipartisan group of former members of the House of Representatives released an open letter Saturday demanding an ethics investigation into lawmakers linked to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/gMOaNjPzv8
— Axios (@axios) December 17, 2022
Edward Kelley was already facing charges in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. https://t.co/YQQ5AfuNwE
— CNN (@CNN) December 17, 2022
Emergency crews pulled the body of a toddler from the rubble in a pre-dawn search for survivors on Saturday of a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih. https://t.co/Hc4YQ8LSzF
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 17, 2022
The State Department has created a new Office of China Coordination, or "China House," to coordinate U.S. policies related to the country, the department said in a release Friday. https://t.co/ev7Ns1blJ7
— Axios (@axios) December 17, 2022
Father of July 4 shooting suspect charged with 7 felonies https://t.co/2TMtibTdwi pic.twitter.com/yEXa602JcX
— The Hill (@thehill) December 17, 2022
A judge who dismissed a 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter warned last year that the defendant had been stockpiling weapons and planning a shootout. The comments are contained in court documents obtained by @AP. https://t.co/drpcXlyRYz
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 17, 2022
TSA says it confiscated a record 6,301 guns at security checkpoints in 2022. https://t.co/guoASdNkuf
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 17, 2022
The number of people behind on their car payments has been approaching prepandemic levels.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 17, 2022
Industry analysts worry the trend is going to continue into 2023 with economists expecting unemployment to rise and inflation to remain high. https://t.co/usT51KmHcy
U.S. children’s hospitals and health agencies are monitoring a possible rise in cases of invasive group A strep infections in children, which can cause severe illness and be deadly. https://t.co/0HitCxT63W
— ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2022
Several high-profile journalists who were suspended from Twitter on Thursday evening were reinstated early Saturday. https://t.co/eGcm7RgwGh
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 17, 2022
The Pentagon said that they have has not yet been able to find any evidence that extraterrestrials may be responsible for the hundreds of UFO incidents they are reviewing or that any alien beings may have crashed on Earth. https://t.co/HBpxsDVeXn
— ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2022
