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LOS ANGELES (AP) – In 2024, control of the U.S. House could hinge on the congressional districts of a famously liberal state: California. Command of the closely divided chamber will be up for grabs again next year, and leaders from both parties agree on this: The outcome in a series of contested California districts will be critical in determining the balance of power , after the state played a fundamental role. by securing the Republican hammer in 2022 and installing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield as speaker. The decisive fight for the House “will stretch across California,” predicts Rep. Pete…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – In 2024, control of the U.S. House could hinge on the congressional districts of a famously liberal state: California. Command of the closely divided chamber will be up for grabs again next year, and leaders from both parties agree on this: The outcome in a series of contested California districts will be critical in determining the balance of power , after the state played a fundamental role. by securing the Republican hammer in 2022 and installing Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield as speaker. The decisive fight for the House “will stretch across California,” predicts Rep. Pete…

CASTANYA DOES IT AGAIN, SATO BEST RIVALS CONEY ISLAND – Legendary 16-time champion Joey Chestnut once again crushed the competition in the Nathan’s Hot Food Contest on Tuesday. reports ABC Newspulled out an astounding 62 hot dogs in just 10 minutes, far short of his personal record of 76 hot dogs set in 2021, also a world best, but still miles ahead of the second-place finisher, who consumed just 49. In the women’s competition, defending champion Miki Sudo won gold for the ninth time, finishing in 39.5, eating so quickly the judges had to count to figure out her exact…

BOSTON — Boston City Council is dealing with some issues. In recent days, residents have seen one councilman announce that this will be his last term, another councilman get into an accident while driving an unregistered car with a suspended license and a third councilman fined $3,000 by the commission of ethics “The city is getting hit left and right in terms of its public image,” says Boston 25 political historian Tom Whalen. Boston City Hall continues to make headlines. Days after Councilman Ricardo Arroyo admitted to violating the state’s conflict of interest law, Councilwoman Kendra Lara was charged Friday…

There is an axiom in the news business that a reporter should never make the story about them. Valerie Bell, a television reporter for ABC affiliate WBMA in Birmingham, Ala., broke that rule recently, but it can be forgiven. With the help of the local police, she was lured into a marriage proposal arranged by her fiance, Blake Bjornson. A five-minute clip Bell posted on Instagram on July 1 shows Bell investigating an alleged report of a domestic violence incident near a lake. As he begins to take notes, the police officer he is talking to asks him to turn…

Washington CNN — A man arrested last week at gunpoint in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C. neighborhood began live streaming in the area shortly after resharing a social media post from Donald Trump in which the former president posted what he said was Obama’s address, according to the federal government. fiscal Prosecutors included the details in a detention memo filed Wednesday, urging a federal judge in D.C. District Court to hold the defendant, Taylor Taranto, in custody pending trial on charges related to the ‘attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Taranto has not yet been…

The Biden administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling that bars some agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing. The notice of appeal filed Wednesday signals the government’s plan to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to review the ruling in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s efforts Biden to persuade social media companies to monitor posts they deemed disinformation. The lawsuit, filed by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, alleged that U.S. government officials went too far in…

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis don’t understand the broader implications of their call for limited military assistance to Ukraine, former Vice President Mike Pence told The Associated Press on Wednesday in Iowa. “With all due respect, I think the former president and the governor of Florida simply don’t understand the national interest of Americans in supporting the Ukrainian military to repel the Russian military in Ukraine,” Pence said. , who is competing with Trump and DeSantis for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said during the interview before a campaign event in…