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Senate Delays the Federal Hemp THC Ban by One Month in a Vote That Cleared the Government Funding Bill

The Senate voted 61-32 to preserve a one-month delay of the federal hemp THC ban, clearing a stopgap funding bill that now moves to the House.

Medical Daily

US Senate approves funding bill to avoid a shutdown before the election

The US Senate approved a short-term funding measure to avoid a government shutdown. This action occurred nearly two months before the fiscal year deadline. Democrats secured language to prevent Border Patrol funding transfers. A one-month delay was enacted for a ban on intoxicating hemp products. New regulations on federal grants…

The Economic Times

The White House's Push To Pause the Hemp Ban Smells Like Cronyism

The ban would gut a growing industry, but the Trump administration’s position isn’t a principled stand against prohibition.

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White House’s push to delay hemp product ban could have big benefit to Susie Wiles’ son-in-law: reports

Bret Worley, who married Wiles’ younger daughter Caroline in June, is the CEO of a global hemp product supplier

The Independent UK

Trump supporters hail US strikes in Nigeria as ‘amazing Christmas present’

Some even celebrated ‘mass killing’ and the president’s ‘resolve’ in attacking Islamic State targets

The Guardian - US

Republicans try to gut protections against US military’s Pfas pollution

If approved as proposed, legislation would delay ban on toxic ‘forever chemical’-laden firefighting foam

The Guardian - US

‘Etched into my brain’: Addison McDowell on the fentanyl tragedy that led him to Congress - Roll Call

Freshman Republican congressman from North Carolina learned of his brother’s death while working as a staffer for Ted Budd.

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Pete Hegseth Meets With Republican Senators Ahead Of Confirmation Hearings

Pete Hegseth, Trump's defense secretary pick, meets with key senators amid misconduct allegations.

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I attended two Trump rallies at the same North Carolina site, two years apart. Now, he is more desperate and diminished

Trump’s rally in Wilmington shows he lacks the same bravado and juice that once made him a spectacle, Eric Garcia reports. Now he just is promising anything to get elected

The Independent UK

Trump ignores Mark Robinson scandal at NC rally as embattled ‘Black Nazi’ candidate divides MAGA base

As Trump hopes to keep North Carolina in his column, he focuses more on his grandchildren than a losing candidate, Eric Garcia reports from Wilmington

The Independent UK

Departing GOP leader dominates Senate earmark rankings - Roll Call

Unfettered by potential challenges to his position after deciding to step aside, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has returned to the earmarking game with gusto.

Roll Call

Border agents use drone to locate missing child in Texas

The child was located hundreds of yards away at the bottom of the riverbank.

Latin Times

McDowell wins NC-6 Republican primary after Walker declines runoff

Addison McDowell defeated five other candidates in the Republican primary for North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District on March 5, 2024. McDowell finished with 26.1% of the vote, below the 30% vote threshold that could have prompted a runoff. Mark Walker, who finished second with 24.1% of the vote, said he…

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Republican Senators Move To Block Federal Reserve From Issuing A CBDC

Sen. Ted Cruz and several other Republican senators are pushing a bill that could prohibit the U.S. central bank from issuing CBDCs, saying a CBDC will only infringe on the American public's financial freedoms.

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No open U.S. House seats in Illinois for the first time in a decade

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 21, Brew.

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SASC carries on with nomination hearings despite ongoing hold - Roll Call

President Biden’s pick to be the Air Force’s next top officer breezed through his hearing Tuesday before Senate Armed Services.

Chicago Sun-Times

So what if Stacy Davis Gates sends her son to a private school?

The teachers union president understands we improve public schools with resources, not with abandonment.

Tribune News Service

Mandy Cohen as CDC director? Republicans in Congress tell Biden she’s ‘unfit’

North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd, Rep. Dan Bishop and other Republicans are citing Dr. Mandy Cohen’s track record during the COVID-19 pandemic in opposing her as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Biden plans a big push in the elusive state of North Carolina in 2024. Here's why

The Biden campaign plans to try to turn North Carolina blue in 2024. A Democratic candidate hasn't done that since 2008, but a win there would make it easier for Biden in the Electoral College.

The Independent UK

Conservative Robinson joins race for N. Carolina governor

North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has formally entered next year's race for governor

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina endorses Donald Trump for president in 2024

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Budd announced Thursday his endorsement of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, just a week after Trump became the first president in history to be arrested on felony charges.

Tribune News Service

Switching parties, Rep. Tricia Cotham is formally welcomed to North Carolina House GOP caucus

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic State Rep. Tricia Cotham joined House and Senate GOP leaders at the North Carolina GOP headquarters Wednesday morning to announce that she is switching parties to become a member of the House Republican caucus.

Tribune News Service

Switching parties, Rep. Tricia Cotham is formally welcomed to NC House GOP caucus

Salon

God, guns and money: GOP's deadly sham

A Biblical scholar on the absurdity of using the Bible to justify the Republican Party's devotion to guns

The Guardian - US

Election-denying donors pour millions into key Wisconsin supreme court race

‘An organized group of insurrectionists’ is seeking to swing a vote with big implications for voting rights, redistricting and abortion

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