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Gov. Brian Kemp issued an executive order late Friday that named GOP caucus leaders – Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch and House Majority Leader Chuck Efstration – to the commission. The third seat was constitutionally saved for Republican Attorney General Chris Carr, but the other two spots could have gone to any lawmaker in the two chambers.

“The review commission shall determine if the indictment relates to and adversely affects the administration of the member’s office and whether the rights and interests of the public are adversely affected thereby,” Kemp wrote in the executive order.

Governor Ron DeSantis, the former three-term U.S. Congressman now running for the Republican nomination for president, on Friday told reporters he would accept federal financial assistance for his state in the wake of Hurricane Idalia, while saying he doesn’t understand how federal government disaster funding works – despite having voted against disaster relief for New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy.

“You know, how Washington handles all this stuff, I don’t quite understand,” Governor DeSantis responded when a reporter asked if he supports President Joe Biden’s call for Congress to provide FEMA with an additional $4 billion for disaster relief.

Attorney Ken Chesebro, who was indicted last month by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in a sprawling racketeering case revolving around his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power, seemingly wants nothing to do with fellow former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.

In a new court filing flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, Chesebro made the case that he should not be tried alongside Powell, whose debunked conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems have sparked record-breaking defamation settlements.

The August jobs report shows the U.S. economy added 187,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate ticking up slightly to 3.8%, still near historic lows, as economists say the increase is due to more people entering the job market.

"The August jobs report couldn’t be much better," declared Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "Job growth is solid but slowing. Unemployment rose, but for that right reason - more labor supply as participation jumped. Wage growth continues to moderate and hours worked rose."

White House aides seriously believe that Republicans in the House of Representatives are going to launch an impeachment drive against their boss in the fall, and they've been preparing to battle it out in the court of public opinion.

NBC News reports that Biden officials and other Democratic allies have been war-gaming to counter the kinds of arguments Republicans are likely to make to justify removing Biden from office.

As U.S. President Joe Biden plans to visit Florida on Saturday to tour the wreckage from Hurricane Idalia, climate campaigners this week have yet again renewed demands for the Democrat—who is seeking reelection next year—to declare a climate emergency.

"I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore," the president said in a Wednesday speech about the hurricane response and wildfire recovery efforts in Maui. "Just look around: historic floods—I mean historic floods; more intense droughts; extreme heat; significant wildfires have caused significant damage like we've never seen before."

Idalia roared into the Sunshine State as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning, flooding homes, felling trees and downing power lines before barreling across neighboring Georgia as well as South and North Carolina.

Keith Randall was clearing dozens of water-damaged items out of his home decor store in the town of Crystal River on Thursday.

US President Joe Biden's administration moved Thursday to close loopholes that allow people to sell guns without a dealer license, which would require them to perform background checks on purchasers.

The Justice Department released detailed rules that follow the Biden-backed Safer Communities Act passed by Congress in June 2022 in reaction to the large number of shooting deaths -- especially in mass shootings -- across the country.

After a three-and-a-half year pandemic-era pause, US federal student loans start accumulating interest again from Friday, with repayments set to cut the monthly take-home pay of millions of Americans by hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of dollars.

Joe Biden campaigned for president on a pledge to forgive at least $10,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans, and unveiled a $400 billion program to do just that after taking office.