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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to defeat a GOP rebellion and retain his position on Friday afternoon, following an initial vote in which a small group of Republicans had previously voted against him, reported Politico.

Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX) flipped their votes to back the speaker following a break, according to the report.

UPDATE: During a long break, Mike Johnson managed to convince Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX) to change their votes, returning him to the speakership.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) had hoped to win the speakership easily in the first round of voting.

UPDATE: The New Orleans Advocate reported Amazon released a statement Friday afternoon in which it said the woman has now been granted time off with pay.

A woman who was seriously injured in the New Year's Eve truck attack in New Orleans says that the Amazon warehouse where she works has denied her request for a leave of absence.

On Friday morning a substantial number of Donald Trump's loyal supporters made it clear that they don't agree with his choice to lead the GOP caucus in the House.

Just hours before members of the U.S. House of Representatives were set to begin the nomination and voting process to elect a new speaker, Donald Trump jumped into the fray once more and reiterated his support for current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

According to noted historian Douglas Brinkley, billionaire Elon Musk learned a valuable lesson about how government works when he failed to derail a House budget deal.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Brinkley was asked whether House Speaker Mike Johnson will be re-elected on Friday when the House convenes to vote, he used Musk's failed interference as an example of how Johnson outmaneuvered Donald Trump's latest close advisor.

"Donald Trump was content to let him [Johnson] twist in the wind for a couple of weeks, is now backing him," MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire prompted his guest. "What do you make of his time as speaker so far? Do you think it will continue?"

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"He has a calming demeanor as you just heard from a Democrat across the aisle that people like him well enough," Brinkley replied. "I thought that when Elon Musk kind of firebombed the potential government shutdown that you were going to get more of a war going on this time in early January, but seems like things are being quite cohesive."

"So I think he is the person," he added. "Trump likes him well enough. Musk is going to have to learn to respect that he has a skill of vote counting and doing what he does that's different than making millions of dollars like Musk does, and he will be a key person in Washington now."

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) created another explanation for why authorities were unable to thwart the New Year’s Day carnage in New Orleans: diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives.

In the wake of the bloody attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, Republicans have suggested that “wide open borders” are somehow responsible for the carnage despite authorities identifying a 42-year-old, U.S.-born military veteran from Texas as responsible for the massacre.

Texas has seen an increase in newborn babies placed in dumpsters after the state passed a restrictive anti-abortion law, a Salon writer noted Thursday. This adds to a startling rise in maternal mortality, while many states are trying to hide the information.

Amanda Marcotte pointed to data showing a dramatic increase in infant mortality after Texas banned abortion in the state. The Washington Post also documented that babies are dying after being abandoned.

Fox News host Sandra Smith pushed incoming border czar Tom Homan into admitting he had no proof after he claimed that recent attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas were connected.

During a Thursday interview on Fox News, Smith told Homan that authorities had "no evidence" to connect a truck explosion in Las Vegas to a truck driver who killed at least 15 people in New Orleans.

Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-LA) made a dig at a news outlet in the middle of a press conference following the deadly terror attack in New Orleans on New Years' Day — and many journalists, pundits and elected officials are now condemning his remarks.

The Daily Beast reported that while taking questions from assembled reporters on Wednesday, Kennedy was told that an NBC News reporter was "on the right" and wanted to ask a question. Kennedy said that "was an unusual position" for the outlet, which prompted the reporter to say: "I don't get it."

The high price of eggs has been in the news since bird flu spread across the U.S. However, a new report alleges the potato industry has a stranglehold on the high price of groceries.

Investigative news outlet The Lever discussed a new antitrust battle against the frozen potato market in November.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to the "wide open border" after a U.S. citizen allegedly carried out a truck attack, killing over a dozen people in New Orleans.

During a Thursday interview on Fox News, host Lawrence Jones asked Johnson if the FBI was previously aware of the identity of the man suspected of attacking people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.