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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters that he's satisfied with the slaying of the top al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri after a military action ordered by President Joe Biden. Still, Graham said he wants more.

"It's beyond brazen that he would be living in a house of the Minister of Interior," said Graham. "So, my advice would be to move assets forward, get countries in the region who would not benefit from an al-Qaeda rise, and start hitting the training camps."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) told Raw Story that he thinks his Republican colleagues need to stand with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Pelosi landed in Taiwan a little after 10 p.m. local time amid China's threats that they'd conduct military exercises around the island while she is there.

One of the Capitol attackers that brought a handgun to the riot on January 6, Guy Reffitt, was sentenced in court on Monday to a little over 7 years in prison. Among the things that Reffitt was caught on video threatening is that he wanted to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and drag her down the steps of the Capitol.

When speaking about the sentence, "The View's" Whoopi Goldberg introduced the segment by noting the length of his sentence to applause from the audience.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday that the Senate to re-vote on the veterans' healthcare bill could happen as early as today.

"We won't know for sure until we talk at lunch," said Tester, noting the policy lunches that lawmakers have.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart is back on Capitol Hill Tuesday to press the Senate to support the legislation to provide healthcare to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

"This country hangs by a thread, and that thread is the hundreds of legislative aides that work in these buildings that work really hard and they keep this thing going," Stewart told Raw Story on Tuesday. "The senators themselves, a lot of them, don't really know what's in this stuff. And there are egos, like — I've never seen egos like this and I'm in show business. And I've never seen corruption like this and I'm from New Jersey. So, you can imagine how f*cked this place is."

The parents of elementary school children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting testified at Alex Jones' defamation trial on Tuesday to explain the horrors they've dealt with after being smeared by the conspiracy theorist.

Jones has been sued for defamation and libel after claiming that the Sandy Hook massacre never happened. On his show, spread across multiple social media platforms and streaming services, Jones claimed that the young children that were shot and killed in 2012 never existed.

Republican senators have discovered that trying to block veterans from healthcare doesn't play well among American voters. With fewer than 100 days until the 2022 midterm elections, GOP senators who previously supported legislation to care for veterans with cancer due to burn pits voted it down. Now they're having second thoughts, Politico reported.

It was mere weeks ago when 84 Senators, all Democrats and a hefty chunk of Republicans, voted to pass the bill. One small tweak in the language was eliminated involving taking over private care, but it didn't change anything meaningful in the bill. But last week, Republicans voted it down. They've been trying to justify it by saying that Democrats added in all of these budget spending measures, but those were actually in the bill they supported.

In Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington, there are two teams of Republicans: the first is one that is 100 percent on board with Donald Trump and supports his effort to overthrow the 2020 election. The second is supported by other Republican leaders, who support a kind of "light" version of the "big lie" Tuesday is about to be the showdown between the two.

The Washington Post wrote Monday that the two gubernatorial candidates in Arizona and Wisconsin endorsed by Trump are matched with those GOP candidates supported by former Vice President Mike Pence.