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Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is fighting to secure the 218 votes he needs to be elected House speaker in January.With voters this month giving the GOP a slim majority, only a small bloc of conservative rebels could deny the California Republican the speaker's gavel at the start of the new Congress. Several McCarthy enemies have already declared that they will not vote for him under any circumstances.“He doesn't have the votes,” said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., leader of the conservative Freedom Caucus. "Some of the stages of grief include denial, so there will be some denial, and then there's the…

On the Colombia-Panama border, where migrants wait to fight their way through the dense and sometimes deadly jungle of the Darien Gap, Americans from the Department of Homeland Security join forces with the Colombian National Police to take down drug traffickers. people before they can lead migrants north. Camping along the beaches of this verdant isthmus, where South America becomes Central America, migrants must choose between following people smugglers into the nearly trackless forest or paying a higher fee to cross the glittering blue waters of the Caribbean.Earlier this month, an NBC News crew flew over the jungle in a…

This week, in a unsigned order Without dissent, the US Supreme Court finally allowed the US Treasury to turn over six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. By refusing to hear the former president's arguments, the higher court upheld a lower court's ruling that the committee has the right to see the president's tax returns and eight of his companies.The request remained in federal court in Washington, DC, until Trump was succeeded by President Joe Biden, the Justice Department reversed its legal position, and Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Richard Neal,…

We had driven less than two hours to reach the restaurant of his choice, but the length of the trip could not be measured in miles. We were there to meet my brother and his wife. The invitation to see him after almost 50 years without communication was a wake-up call that I could not refuse. My husband came to support me, full of curiosity to meet his brother-in-law.The road between when I last saw my brother, when he was in his early 20s and I was a teenager, and now, both of us in our 60s, was paved with…