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Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

When House Majority Leader Steve Scalise endorsed former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, all eyes immediately turned to Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who hadn’t yet backed anyone in the presidential race. A day later, Emmer joined Speaker Mike Johnson, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, NRCC Chair Richard Hudson, Scalise and dozens of fellow Republicans in throwing his support behind Trump.

WASHINGTON — U.S. representatives from Austin and other progressive Texans voted against a House resolution condemning antisemitism at university campuses and the "evasive and dismissive" response by elite higher education officials "to simply condemn such action." Congress on Wednesday in a bipartisan three-page resolution slapped back at the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, who, in a U.S. House hearing a week earlier, failed to condemn calls for genocide of Jews at their campuses, lawmakers say. The resolution calls for the university presidents' ouster and had almost total GOP support but only a little more than one-third from deeply divided Democrats.

Consider this: The most dangerous place to be a child in the world today is Gaza. That’s the assessment of Catherine Russell, the executive director of UNICEF, who is not a bleeding-heart radical but a former ambassador and veteran lawyer who worked for Presidents Biden and Barack Obama.