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Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan, ramping up US-China tensions

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan on Tuesday, defying Chinese authorities who have warned of consequences if the trip takes place, according to people familiar with her plans.

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America First is laying plans to perpetuate Trumpism beyond Trump

The rightwing group is planning a future more authoritarian, more extreme and more ruthless – with or without the former president

The Guardian - US

China's Xi warns Biden over Taiwan, calls for cooperation

President Xi JInping warned against meddling in China’s dealings with Taiwan during a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, that gave no indication of progress on trade, technology or other irritants

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A richer, stronger China warns Pelosi not to visit Taiwan

In 1997, Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan

The Independent UK

Pelosi to Taiwan would be career capstone, despite warnings

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a political career being tough on China

The Independent UK

Xi, Biden to speak as possible Pelosi Taiwan visit looms

U.S. President Joe Biden is planning to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in four months, with a wide range of bilateral and international issues on the table

The Independent UK

McCarthy offers GOP agenda preview with goal to 'lock in' a conservative majority

WASHINGTON — Before former President Donald Trump stepped onstage for his first speech in Washington since leaving the White House, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was at the same venue talking up the prospects of winning an enduring Republican majority in November.

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Why the big fuss over Nancy Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan?

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity over the island’s status that reports of her possible trip have resulted in a warning by China of “serious consequences” and a suggestion by President Joe Biden…

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McCarthy offers GOP agenda preview ahead of Trump’s return to Washington - Roll Call

Ahead of Trump’s first speech in the capital since leaving office, McCarthy said the GOP will start rolling out its agenda on Wednesday.

Roll Call

Newt Gingrich appears to confirm Trump plan to replace civil servants with MAGA loyalists if he returns to White House

Implications of Trump executive order were uncovered by Axios

The Independent UK

Growing number in GOP back Pelosi on possible Taiwan trip

An increasing number of Republican officials are defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her reported trip to Taiwan

The Independent UK

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Taiwan: Reports

If her trip goes ahead, Pelosi will be the first sitting US speaker of the House to visit Taiwan in 25 years.

Al Jazeera

Former House Speaker slammed for saying Kamala Harris can’t be president because she has a ‘really weird laugh’

‘I mean, we have a president who’s cognitively challenged, but to have a president who’s just strange?’ Newt Gingrich says

The Independent UK

Trump allies line up shadow government, mindful of 2016’s chaos

A group of Donald Trump’s former aides is preparing a turnkey administration for his return to the White House, as the embattled former president hints that he’s preparing to make a third run for the nation’s highest office.

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Newt and the Never Trumpers: Gingrich, Tim Miller and the fate of the Republican party

In two new books, a partisan warrior and a repentant operative paint an alarming portrait of a party gone rogue

The Independent UK

Pelosi takes communion at the Vatican despite being denied it for abortion stance

The Archbishop in San Francisco said the House Speaker will be denied communion

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Stuart Rothenberg: What’s next for Chris Murphy?

According to my 2006 calendar, I met Connecticut Democratic candidate Christopher S. Murphy on Feb. 28. I had a breakfast speaking engagement in Florida that morning but still got back to Washington, D.C., for a midafternoon interview about his run for the state’s 5th District seat.

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What’s next for Chris Murphy? - Roll Call

Connecticut Sen. Christopher S. Murphy focuses on what's possible in politics, a trait Democrats should be looking for, Stu Rothenberg writes.

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As Trump fumes, Kemp's former Georgia foes fall in line

ATLANTA — Donald Trump is still peddling conspiracy theories after Gov. Brian Kemp humbled his handpicked challenger. But David Perdue and several other one-time Kemp adversaries are pleading with Georgia Republicans to rally around the governor.

Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: Republicans use ‘God’ to turn tragedies into talking points

A number of so-called religious conservatives like to explain away national tragedies — be they natural or man-made — through the lens of God’s wrath, or at least indirect punishment for “sins.” Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich blamed same-sex marriage for the 2008 economic crash. Former Sen. Rick Santorum blamed abortions…

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Back in Georgia, Newt Gingrich looks to make his mark on 2022 election

ATLANTA — Villa Richardson sits atop a hill with a sweeping view of Rome. The 19th-century palazzo is the residence of the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. And it's where Newt Gingrich spent most of the COVID-19 lockdown.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Alleged Buffalo shooter spoke the language of ‘replacement.’ The GOP is fluent in it

Once again, the truism that hate speech fosters violence has been tragically reconfirmed, this time in Buffalo, New York. A white supremacist’s rampage Saturday that killed 10 was fueled by so-called replacement theory, the far-right fantasy that white Americans are being intentionally “replaced” by invaders of color to steer politics…

The Independent UK

Trump’s 2020 campaign tested ‘outlandish’ idea of giving Americans ability to sue China in court, book says

Among other ideas tested were expelling Chinese scientists, researchers and technicians

WEKU

McCarthy embodies House GOP's post-Trump dilemma and post-Gingrich history

Shakespeare observed that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Independent UK

McCarthy's second shot at first-time speaker relies on Trump

The next speaker could very well hail from California, but it won't be Nancy Pelosi's slice of the Golden State

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