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The New York Times1y
McCarthy Says He Will Leave Congress at the End of the Year
Mr. McCarthy’s resignation, which he announced in an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal, will bring to a close a 16-year stint in Congress in which he rose from a member of the self-procla ...
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Laois man fined €400 for fraudulent tax and insurance discs
A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been fined €400 and given a six-month driving disqualification after appearing before Carlow District ...
Washington Times2y
McCarthy’s dream of becoming House speaker in disarray: ‘A promotion shouldn’t be failure’s chaser’
Mr. Scalise said he has no intention of running for speaker and “supports Kevin McCarthy” for the position, his spokeswoman told The Washington Times. House Republican lawmakers are ...
The Washington Post1y
McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry will go nowhere. But it’s still a crisis.
If the House ultimately votes to impeach the president, Mr. McCarthy (R-Calif.) also knows a Democratic-controlled Senate would never muster the two-thirds threshold necessary to oust Mr. Biden ...
Washington Times1y
McCarthy shoots down reports that he is resigning, says he’ll run for another term
Mr. McCarthy doused the rumor with cold water. “I’m not resigning, I’ve got a lot more work to do,” Mr. McCarthy said. “I’m staying, so don’t worry, I got a lot more work to do.” ...
The New York Times2y
McCarthy, All Carrots and No Sticks, Grinned His Way to the Speakership
“This is the great part,” Mr. McCarthy said. “Because it took this long, now we learned how to govern.” What has become perhaps the most ‌painful and ‌critical‌ ‌week of Mr ...
The Economist1y
Kevin McCarthy’s sacking deepens the chaos in American government
Despite earning support from 210 of the 221 House Republicans, eight hardliners teamed up with 208 Democrats to fire Mr McCarthy. Shortly thereafter the former speaker announced that he would not ...
BBC2y
Kevin McCarthy elected US House Speaker after 15 rounds of voting
Kevin McCarthy has been elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives after heated exchanges which almost saw fellow Republicans come to blows. It took 15 rounds of voting for Mr McCarthy to ...
CBS News1y
What Congress accomplished with McCarthy as speaker of the House
Amid ongoing investigations by three GOP-led committees into Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden's son, and his overseas business dealings, McCarthy announced last month the opening of a formal impeachment ...
Wall Street Journal2y
What to Know About McCarthy's Bid for House Speaker
McCarthy Talks Tough on Spending to Lock Down Support for Speaker Run (Dec. 23, 2022): Mr. McCarthy used his last speech on the House floor this year to pitch himself to his colleagues as a hard ...
The Economist2y
Cormac McCarthy was the great novelist of the American West
But that was before Cormac McCarthy hit his stride. To understand the American West, you need to know the land and its beautiful, terrifying expanse, as Stegner did. But in his fiction Mr McCarthy ...