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In a multi-part interview with Punchbowl News earlier this month, McCarthy outlined an ambitious economic strategy should his party regain control of Congress this midterm cycle, including reversing a number of tax increases enacted under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act alongside potential reforms to federal entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare long seen as anathema to Democrats. To get there, McCarthy suggested Republican leadership was willing to use the federal debt ceiling—or a red line on the amount of debt the country can accrue before defaulting—as a bargaining chip to force Democrats to make a deal, harkening back to a similar style of brinkmanship with the federal budget not seen since the height of the Tea Party revolution of 2011....

“Dr. Fauci is one of our country’s most distinguished public servants,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who chairs the Senate Health Committee, said in a statement. “He has served six presidents, starting with Ronald Reagan.” In a call with campaign staffers Monday morning, Trump disparaged the longtime National Institutes of Health official, saying coronavirus experts like Fauci and others are “idiots” and that Fauci has been “a disaster.” The president claimed, without evidence, that had he listened to Fauci from the onset of the pandemic, “we’d have 500,000 deaths… we’d have 700,000, 800,000 deaths....

Kennedy referenced several Hollywood movies during Monday’s Senate hearings, which are in consideration of Barrett’s nomination to become a Supreme Court justice. Fellow committee member and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris immediately preceded Kennedy, accusing Barrett and President Donald Trump of wanting to end the ACA, or “Obamacare,” protections of pre-existing conditions. Kennedy ridiculed Harris and other Democrats’ remarks and said it’s “deeply unfair” Barrett must be called a “religious bigot” and “racist” by his Senate colleagues....

It was a good-natured gesture toward a few of Gordon’s teammates who were ribbing him as he rounded the bases. It was also an expression of relief for the Mariners, who lost the first two games of this series after sweeping first-place Houston on the road. Gordon homered off Yusmeiro Petit to break a scoreless tie, and the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 2-0 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game sweep....

But family stories are dangerous territory for Gore. As is often the case, this one was a little too vivid. The Boston Globe reported on Monday that Gore took his figures not from his family’s records but from a House study on drug prices. Moreover, Aitcheson uses Lodine while Shiloh is given an animal version called Etogesic. Gore struck again the same day the Globe story ran. With a pack of reporters on full embellishment alert, Gore serenaded an audience of Teamsters in Las Vegas with the first line of what he said was a childhood lullaby: “Look for the union label …” If it’s true, then Tipper must have been singing him to sleep, because the song was written in 1975, when he was 27 years old....

Not every game will necessarily be hindered if it releases on previous-gen consoles, but it could potentially lack the quality a current-gen exclusive will have. That said, some fans have already expressed their disappointment with regard to how Gotham Knights looks as a current-gen exclusive. These concerns have been quelled more or less since. However, thanks to Gotham Knight’s recently revealed PC features, fans may be giving themselves the best experience possible by not playing on console after all....

Many believed that at least one of these would be delayed, with the likely candidate seemingly being Hogwarts Legacy. Rumors emerged around this, until a tweet by a higher-up at Warner Bros suggested Gotham Knights and Hogwarts Legacy were on track to release this year. Now, according to Bloomberg Journalist Jason Schreier, Suicide Squad has been “quietly delayed” into 2023, per sources familiar with its development. RELATED: Gotham Knights Developer Working on New Project...

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Scotland’s Gordon Goudie and Rob Taylor shared six wickets between them to bowl Scotland to a comfortable 84 runs victory over Papua New Guinea (PNG) on day seven of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier UAE 2013 (WT20Q) at the ICC Academy Oval 1 in Dubai on Thursday. In other Group B matches in Dubai, Afghanistan defeated Denmark by two wickets and Kenya outclassed Bermuda by seven wickets. Rain had the last laugh in the Group A matches in Abu Dhabi between Ireland and Italy, and Uganda and USA, which were both abandoned without a ball being bowled....

In Tolyatti, a city on the Volga River in western Russia, a local media report said that an individual threw a Molotov cocktail at the main door of a government administration building on Belorusskaya Street. At about 3:44 a.m. local time Thursday, the building’s door and part of its ceiling caught fire, independent Russian-language news outlet MediaZona reported. The area of the fire was 10 square meters, and it was reportedly extinguished within 20 minutes....

“We are here today to protect life. We are here today to defend those who can’t defend themselves,” DeSantis said Thursday morning at a church in Kissimmee, Florida. DeSantis said that the legislation “protects the rights of unborn children starting at 15 weeks.” Prior to the new law, Florida allowed abortions until 24 weeks. Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature approved the 15-week abortion ban last month. The new law does not make exceptions for cases of rape, incest or human trafficking....

If you pre-order any of these phones, you will get 12 months of Disney+ completely free, as well as pair of Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro; which are some of the best noise-cancelling true wireless buds currently out there. Get the S22 series with free Disney+ and Galaxy Buds Pro One year’s worth of Disney+ costs £79.90, whilst the Galaxy Buds Pro are worth £219, so you’re essentially getting around £300 worth of extras with the purchase of your new Galaxy S22....

Princeton is the first college to formally curb grade inflation, which plagues many schools. When Stuart Rojstaczer, a pro-fessor of environmental science at Duke, collected data on grading practices at 83 colleges, he found that 79 of them had experienced “significant” grade inflation in the past few decades. Grades at selective private schools are especially high. A 2003 Princeton study found that marks of A and A-minus accounted for 44 to 55 percent of grades at the Ivy League colleges, MIT, Stanford and the University of Chicago....

Released in March, Gran Turismo 7 is the latest installment in the long-running racing series. Sold as a “Love letter to car culture,” the game includes over 400 cars from various manufacturers and time periods. However, its developers also attracted controversy for Gran Turismo 7’s excessive microtransactions and post-launch changes. RELATED: Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.19 Adds 3 New Cars to the Game Gran Turismo 7’s Update 1.23 goes live at 11 PM Pacific on September 28/2 AM Eastern on September 29....

The intended change of policy comes after a two-day meeting of the Grand Slam Board (GSB) in London last week. Next year’s slams will retain the 32-seed format that came into effect in 2001, but from 2019 the top-ranked players may find themselves facing much tougher opposition earlier in events. Meanwhile, participants at the 2018 Australian Open will compete under a 25-second shot clock that was trialled in US Open qualifying this year....

We had previously shown off the gameplay trailer for the Redux modification, though at that point in time the release date wasn’t mentioned. As fate would have it, the developers put out a new video shortly after that answered the one question everyone wanted to know! As it turns out, the Grand Theft Auto 5 Redux modification will release on August 26, so gamers eager to immerse themselves in the slick visuals don’t have too much longer to wait....

RELATED: Best Grand Theft Auto 5 Mods For Co-Op To make things easier for everyone, there are several options most would recommend changing immediately. The game isn’t necessarily ruined if players don’t change these settings, but it saves a lot of trouble and makes for a smoother time if they are changed. Some of these might depend on personal taste, but one should at least consider looking at them anyway to be sure of what they really want....

The new leak was briefly posted to a Rockstar Games support page and was quickly removed, but not before fans managed to copy and paste the relevant information. It is currently available on GTA Forums. Although the leak appears to be primarily a marketing blurb and is subsequently a bit lacking in detail, it does report that Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition will feature Grand Theft Auto 5-style controls....

Salvatore Anello has appeared in court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a hearing on the case surrounding the death of Chloe Wiegand, who plummeted more than 150 feet after falling through an open window on the Freedom of the Seas vessel while it was docked on July 7. Speaking to ABC News, Anello’s defense attorney Jose Perez said the 50-year-old continues to maintain his innocence and will reject a plea deal....

The new privacy policy has some concerned that it allows WhatsApp to share messages with its parent company, Facebook. WhatsApp said recently that users who don’t agree to the policy by May 15 would no longer be able to send or read messages from the app. Fortunately, there are many other secure messaging apps available if you don’t agree to WhatsApp’s terms. “The best alternative is to switch to a messenger like Signal, which does not collect user data and share it with Facebook or other third-party advertisers, while also providing strong end-to-end encryption for messages,” Ray Walsh, data privacy expert at privacy website ProPrivacy, said in an email interview....