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Fingers are being pointed at House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) for squelching research to identify and clamp down on misinformation, The Washington Post is reporting.

According to the report, researchers seeking to figure out ways to weed out misrepresentations and lies with another election looming are blaming Jordan and a handful of his GOP collegues for making their lives miserable.

Working in industrial laundries at age 14, laboring up to 35 hours a week on top of school -- some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation.

At least five states have amended their legislation covering adolescent job regulations, with Arkansas being the latest to see changes take effect in August.

Lachlan Murdoch, the heir of the sprawling media empire whose politics skew as conservative as his father Rupert's, is set to take over the family business in November, the choice of continuity.

Lachlan is already president of Fox Corporation, parent company of the Fox News cable television channel, and was long the favorite against his brother James to succeed the family patriarch.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday warned Iran at the United Nations of a "nuclear threat" in what his office quickly walked back as a slip of the tongue.

The hawkish prime minister said that alarm over Tehran's clerical leaders was driving Israel closer to the Arab world, with his government on the "cusp" of a historic breakthrough with Saudi Arabia.

U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL). largely seen as pushing Speaker Kevin McCarthy's Republican-majority House of Representatives toward shutting down the federal government, is praising and promoting remarks made by a freshman GOP lawmaker that appear to suggest the use of violence. U.S. Rep. Eli Crane's comments, posted Friday (below), call for change "through force," remarks echoing Congressman Gaetz's recent comments which were denounced by an expert on authoritarianism as fascistic.

"The only way we're going to see meaningful change in this town is through force," wrote Congressman Crane, Republican of Arizona atop a three-minute video in which he frames what is now an almost guaranteed government shutdown as a "spending fight." In his video he says, "the only way you're gonna get any change in this town is through force." Gaetz in August had said, "we know that only through force do we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington, D.C."

The U.S. Dept. of Justice unsealed an indictment against U.S. Senator Bob Menendez late Friday morning, accusing the New Jersey Democratic lawmaker of bribery as prosecutors showed photos of gold bars and nearly half-a-million dollars in cash stuffed into a jacket that bears his name and the seal of the U.S. Senate.

Many on the left immediately demanded Senator Menendez resign, a demand he is refusing. He will step down as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, which Senate Democrats require when a chair is criminally charged.

Megan Rapinoe, who championed social justice and fought for women's equal pay in a 17-year international career, will play her final match for the United States on Sunday against South Africa.

The 38-year-old striker has scored 63 goals in 202 appearances for the national team entering her farewell match at Chicago, having helped the US win titles at the 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cups and the 2012 London Olympics.

With the Republican-controlled House off for the weekend despite the impending government shutdown due to infighting among GOP caucus members battling with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), one party member tried to pin the blame on President Joe Biden – and CNN host Kate Bolduan abruptly cut him off.

Appearing on the network Friday, Rep. Mark Molinaro (R-NY), who represents a district that went for Biden in 2020, tried to allay worries about a possible devastating government shutdown as he also tried to shift some of the blame to Democrats.

While discussing the battle between Speaker McCarthy and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over the budget deal, Molinaro offered, "This isn't a head fake, this is an earnest effort to show to the American people and to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, two things, we have a bipartisan government by design or default and we have to find common ground between the Senate."

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When he added, "Instead of the president sitting on the sideline laughing about the fact that we have yet to move those appropriation bills, perhaps providing a decent amount of leadership to focus our attention on the fact that this government spends money it doesn't have, taxes...," the CNN host abruptly cut him off.

"Do you think President Biden getting involved would make it -- would make it any easier for Republicans to come together? Because this is a Republican problem at this moment," she lectured.

"Listen, it's an American problem," the New York Republican backtracked before changing the subject and complaining, "We have allowed this White House to allow thousands of undocumented individuals into the country, it's crushing the city of New York."

Getting back on track after being chastized, he continued, "But my point is that what we do need an earnest effort on both sides of the political aisle."