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On Wednesday, nearly two dozen Republican lawmakers voted against a McCarthy speakership on a fourth ballot, furthering the GOP leader’s defeat as the Republican Party fails to unite behind one member to win the gavel. This time, McCarthy’s dissenters backed Representative Byron Donalds for speaker. The vote comes less than a day after more than a dozen of House Republicans rebuked McCarthy in three separate floor votes. The chaos has been a troubling sign for the GOP, raising questions about how the party will govern over the next two years if members can’t even agree on who should lead the 118th Congress....

The former president has backed more than 300 Republicans across all forms of government in the November 8 elections, including a number of House and Senate candidates who continue to support his false claim that the 2020 election was rigged. For live updates on the midterms, head over to Newsweek’s Live Blog: Who Won the Midterm Elections 2022?—Senate, House, Governor Results Trump has frequently pointed to his success in the GOP primaries to prove he has an apparent knack for choosing eventual winners and show that there is still an appetite for his MAGA-brand of politics amid reports he is due to confirm a 2024 run for the presidency in the upcoming days....

In the last year or so, rehab has become the ultimate publicity tool, a brief break from the glitzy life, a chance to burnish one’s reputation. (The bad girls aren’t alone in this regard; see Mel Gibson, Isaiah Washington.) What we’ve forgotten is that rehab is supposed to result in rehabilitation. Hence the name. Rehabilitating one’s life, when it’s broken and damaged, is not just a weekend stay. I never went to rehab....

That comment drew boos from the mostly liberal audience—and campaign rivals aren’t likely to let the issue go away. An upcoming study by the watchdog group Public Citizen finds that at least 16 of her campaign’s “Hill-raisers”—elite fund-raisers or “bundlers” who have pledged to bring in at least $100,000—are registered D.C. lobbyists who represent corporate interests that include financial, airline, defense and pharmaceutical firms. Among the players: Matthew Bernstein (whose client list includes Raytheon and Merrill Lynch), James Blanchard (Bristol-Myers and an Indian gaming tribe), Steve Ricchetti (Eli Lilly and General Motors), Richard Sullivan (Delta and Freddie Mac) and John Merrigan (Starwood Hotels)....

The Dutchman was appointed as the permanent successor to David Moyes in the summer of 2014, with a three-year contract agreed at Old Trafford. He was, however, to see out just two seasons before being ushered through the exits on the back of a FA Cup triumph. Van Gaal believes that decision was taken long before he was made aware of it, with United hanging him out to dry....

Felton turned himself in at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday, not long after the Knicks lost to the Dallas Mavericks in a buzzer-beater at home, police said. PHOTOS: Disgraced athletes But before the Monday night game, an attorney for Ariane Raymondo-Felton arrived at a Manhattan police precinct with a Belgian-made FN Herstal pistol, police spokesman Sgt. Lee Jones said. Raymondo-Felton later went to the precinct that night and made a statement to detectives, police said....

The woman took to Mumsnet to share her frustration that one bridesmaid dropped out of a bachelorette party, known as a ‘hen do’ in the U.K., in Liverpool, northwest England. Posting under the name AnnoyedEveryone on Wednesday, the woman explained she organized the party six weeks before her friend’s wedding in Spain. She added those attending would pay £340 ($456) for the party and that all were footing the cost for the bride-to-be as well....

The company’s pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily may be in jeopardy as leaders in Beijing crack down on dissenting voices. Last week, the Taiwan Apple Daily newspaper announced it would no longer publish a print edition because it had been losing money. It also said Next Digital in Hong Kong could no longer support it because “pro-China forces” blocked access to advertising for the flagship Apple Daily and other publications....

The actress spent a season on the Simon Cowell-fronted talent show in 2019 before she publicly voiced concerns over how she was treated on set after news broke that she and fellow season 14 judge Julianne Hough would not be returning for season 15 in 2020, despite both having contractual options to return. Long-standing judges Cowell and Howie Mandel’s contracts were renewed. Variety reported at the time that insiders spoke of the show’s “toxic culture” and that both Union and Hough received “excessive” notes on their physical appearances, with the Bring It On actress reportedly told that some of her hairstyles were “too black....

“So many tears, so much gratitude,” Union wrote Wednesday evening. “THANK YOU! Just when you feel lost, adrift, alone… you got me up off the ground. Humbled and thankful, forever ❤.” The magazine Variety first reported that NBC would not renew the contracts of Union and fellow judge Julianne Hough through an exclusive piece published November 22. Four days later, the publication followed up with another article that linked the pair’s ousting to Union’s complaints of a “toxic culture” on the set of the talent show....

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Skjelvik comes to the Galaxy on a free transfer from Rosenborg, where he won two league titles and a Norwegian Cup. “Jorgen has been a key player on multiple title-winning teams and has his best years of soccer in front of him,” Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid said in a club release. “He has experience playing at a very high level for club and country and he can immediately strengthen our backline....

The gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ located in your right upper abdomen, just under your ribcage. It stores and releases bile used in digestion. Gallbladder pain can come and go. It can be triggered by eating a fatty meal, rapid weight loss, fasting, or going too long between meals. Unlike gas pain, gallbladder pain is not relieved by changing position, burping, or passing gas. This article discusses the causes of gallbladder pain, including gallstone and gallbladder diseases....

Common Causes Gallstones develop, perhaps obviously, in the gallbladder, a pear-shaped organ beneath the liver on the right side of the abdomen. The gallbladder is about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide at its thickest part, and it stores and releases bile into the intestine to aid digestion. Bile is a fluid made by the liver that helps in digestion. Bile contains substances called bile salts that act like natural detergents to break down fats in the food we eat....

In the Twitter video “A normal person explains what’s happening on the stock market,” Avalon Penrose introduces herself as someone who has “a pretty good understanding of the stock market.” “I have been seeing a lot of people online who are like, ‘What is going on with the stock market? Is there anyone who can explain this in normal person terms?’ So I decided I wanted to do that. Because I own stocks, so I have a pretty good understanding of the stock market,” she says....

The creators, four guys who work out of a loft in Knoxville, Tenn., just smiled. Bill Appleton, Andrew Nelson, Scott Scheinbaum and Jamie Wicks are the team behind CyberFlix, a year-old company with two CD-ROM games already on the market and three others in development. Their first release, Lunicus, also a sci-fi action game, was named 1993 CD-ROM game of the year by the magazine MacWorld; Jump Raven, a best seller, is a favorite to win this year....

Over the weekend, coach Zinedine Zidane made it clear that the Welshman was not in his plans and that he hoped Bale would depart the club he joined in 2013 for a then-world record fee of $112 million sooner rather than later. “I’m not going to talk about that,” the Real Madrid coach told reporters when asked why Bale had not been included in the squad that faced Bayern Munich in the club’s first preseason game in the U....

All those players and play-callers have been a big part of the Cowboys’ breakthrough success that has it at 10-4 and on the verge of an NFC East title. Through all the prime-time love Dallas gets, they’ve all been shown plenty of on-air love for the great jobs they’ve done in 2014. But how about the guy who’s put of all that together as their head coach? Guess Jason Garrett will just settle for a lucrative deal that will keep him the Cowboys head coach for a much longer time....