News from the Note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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The new House speaker’s hard-fought path to the gavel started and ended in bitter clashes with Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz. https://t.co/JxsgH0QrEO
— CNN (@CNN) January 7, 2023
Speaker McCarthy: "I do want to especially thank President Trump. I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning." https://t.co/IEFkpKdwiZ pic.twitter.com/4qvZJ0ZD44
— The Hill (@thehill) January 7, 2023
As tensions boiled over on the House floor during the speaker votes, Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama started to charge toward Matt Gaetz before Richard Hudson physically pulled him back.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 7, 2023
Full coverage:https://t.co/rT1rrJ7Ayy pic.twitter.com/klMbHN02iV
Hundreds of Ukrainians heard the Orthodox Christmas service in the Ukrainian language for the first time in decades at Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old Lavra Cathedral. https://t.co/95m5PzAEJa
— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2023
Grain prices reached record highs in 2022, as war in Ukraine jolted exports, energy markets and fertilizer supplies key to food production, the U.N. says. https://t.co/9PSYdFcToY
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 7, 2023
JUST IN: Judge rejects Trump’s motion to dismiss New York AG’s lawsuit https://t.co/PDuCO8ZtUZ pic.twitter.com/RcDxmPXc6z
— The Hill (@thehill) January 7, 2023
A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was shot by a 6-year-old student in Newport News is showing signs of improvement as authorities struggle to understand how a child so young could be involved in a school shooting, https://t.co/wmZ62rvQa1 pic.twitter.com/MrscZ8PliP
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 7, 2023
A federal appeals court struck down a ban on bump stocks — a device that can be attached to a semiautomatic firearm enabling it to rapidly fire bullets. https://t.co/ZdYlIQkM5i
— Axios (@axios) January 7, 2023
Florida lawmakers will move to increase state control of Walt Disney World's private government, according to a notice published Friday. https://t.co/FMC7erAJix
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 7, 2023
There are so many victims of the fraud allegedly perpetrated by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried federal prosecutors said it would be impractical for them to individually notify all of them — so the judge allowed prosecutors to establish a website. https://t.co/GBV4QLtGAz
— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a conditional license for a vaccine that protects honeybees against American Foulbrood disease, Dalan Animal Health, the biotech company behind the drug, announced. https://t.co/fK1H3NzlJG
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 7, 2023
Scientists behind a new study say they have uncovered the mystery ingredient that allowed the Romans to make their construction material so durable and build elaborate structures in challenging places such as docks, sewers and earthquake zones. https://t.co/G1os0OVuBA
— CNN (@CNN) January 7, 2023
