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US Republican Representative from Florida Matt Gaetz speaks with lawmakers as the US House of Representatives convenes for the 118th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Matt Gaetz labels McCarthy a "squatter"

Rae Hodge

Gaetz's opposition to McCarthy grew even pettier on Tuesday after the GOP leader moved into Pelosi's old office

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

MTG "furious" at MAGA pals over McCarthy

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet

“They’re proving to the country that they’re just distractions," the Georgia Republican said

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When fishing boats go "dark"

Heather Welch - The Conversation

Periods of missing transponder data actually contain useful information on where ships go and what they do

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP can't govern — and doesn't want to

Heather Digby Parton

As Kevin McCarthy reaps the whirlwind, let's hope voters understand this chaos was never really about Donald Trump

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Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's desperate plea to save McCarthy

Igor Derysh

Trump had declined to say whether he still backs McCarthy, letting him hang in the wind for 24 hours

Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

War accelerating clean energy adoption

Rachel Kyte - The Conversation

Call it the Putin effect: Russia’s war is speeding up the global shift away from fossil fuels

A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a noreaster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Earth’s tilt affects January

Deanna Hence - The Conversation

Atmospheric scientist Deanna Hence explains the weather and climate factors that produce wintry conditions

Nancy Pelosi and Alexandra Pelosi (Courtesy of HBO)

Nancy Pelosi, in private and unfiltered

Dean Obeidallah

Alexandra Pelosi filmed her mom in private for decades — the result is a new HBO documentary, "Pelosi in the House"

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Migrants from Venezuela, who boarded a bus in Texas, wait to be transported to a local church by volunteers after being dropped off outside the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP's New Year message: More cruelty

Chauncey DeVega

Greg Abbott's Christmas Eve migrant "stunt" was more like sadistic white supremacist theater, with more to come

Former President Donald Trump speaks during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Mary Trump: 2023 a "tipping point"

Alex Henderson - Alternet

"There will be this cumulative sort of density of horrors that will finally catch up with him," she predicted

A FDNY ambulance approaches the entrance to the Brooklyn Hospital Center on April 23, 2020 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)

EMS in crisis as NYC faces tridemic

Bob Hennelly - Work-Bites

Inadequate staffing, longer hours and surging 911 calls put residents at risk

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) watches former President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 5, 2019 in Washington, DC. A group of female Democratic lawmakers chose to wear white to the speech in solidarity with women and a nod to the suffragette movement. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

118 years to gender parity in Congress

Laurel Elder - The Conversation

Congress added just two women in the 2022 midterms

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U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacts as Representatives cast their votes for Speaker of the House on the first day of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 03, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy's historic humiliation

Rae Hodge

Three ballots and no speaker: House GOP remains hopelessly fractured — and there's no clear resolution in sight

Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

Weighing risks of a major surgery

Judith Graham - KFF Health News

Surgery can be lifesaving or improve a senior’s quality of life. But advanced age puts people at greater risk

Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

New tools to predict health care costs

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News

Most consumers prefer to nail down out-of-pocket costs before they walk into the doctor’s office

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car on May 7, 2011 in Venice, Italy. (Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

Late pope's sexual abuse suit continues

Joy Saha

A German man accused the former pontiff of dismissing complaints against convicted pedophile Father Peter Hullerman

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Journalist Barbara Walters attends the Woman's Day 8th Annual Red Dress Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 8, 2011 in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Woman's Day)

View's one-sided Barbara Walters tribute

Alison Stine

The talk show the late Walters created and used to co-host said goodbye to her in its own special way

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Getty Images)

McCarthy seeks to gut ethics watchdog

Rae Hodge

McCarthy tries to woo far-right critics by limiting nonpartisan watchdog while empowering the GOP-led House panel

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. (Getty Images)

Boebert curses at McCarthy meeting

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story

McCarthy drew pushback from the GOP ahead of vote to decide the next House speaker

Diabetic girl injecting insulin in her stomach (Getty Images/dmphoto)

Youth diabetes predicted to rise sharply

Matthew Rozsa, Troy Farah

A harrowing statistical model from the CDC reveals the future extent of the public health "epidemic"

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Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, former Georgia election worker, becomes emotional while testifying as her mother Ruby Freeman watches during the fourth hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 21, 2022 in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump renews attack on Ruby Freeman

Brandon Gage - Alternet

Trump went on a tirade against the Georgia election worker who faced threats and harassment from his supporters

Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona Kari Lake speaks to members of the media after voting in the US midterm election, in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 8, 2022. (OLIVIER TOURON/AFP via Getty Images)

Lake ally demands "vote to decertify"

Brad Reed - Raw Story

"I will NOT standby while my favorite state is stolen by radical leftists," declared Arizona Rep. Rachel Jones

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Mark A. Milley (R) listens while US President Donald Trump speaks before a meeting with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on October 7, 2019. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Transcript: Trump military revenge plot

Maya Boddie - Alternet

Trump wanted to un-retire military critics so that he could punish them over op-eds, Gen. Mark Milley said

Torn posters litter the floor following a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on April 25, 2016 at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

America's loneliness fuels fascism

Chauncey DeVega

Both young Americans and seniors feel increasingly isolated — and this problem is central to our political crisis

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