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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks during the House Freedom Caucus news conference to oppose the debt limit deal outside of the Capitol on May 30.

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Far-right members threaten a 'reckoning' over McCarthy's debt limit deal

9:50pm May 30, 2023

McCarthy, who struck a compromise deal to avoid a debt default, faces criticism from members of his own conference and a potential threat that could oust him as speaker. He says his job is secure.

Former FBI director James Comey before testifying on Capitol Hill in 2018.

James Comey knows the politics of NY law enforcement. Now, he's writing about it

5:17pm May 30, 2023

by Manuela López Restrepo

Central Park West draws from James Comey's experience in the FBI and as a U.S attorney for the southern district of New York.

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5 years after U.S. left Iran nuclear deal, more enriched Uranium and much less trust

5:03pm May 30, 2023

It's been five years since the U.S. pulled out of the nuclear deal. How close is Iran to a bomb? What can the U.S. do to stop them? And how are regional and global shifts changing the equation?

U.S. lawmakers push bills to restrict foreign ownership of farmland

4:41pm May 30, 2023

by Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media

Federal and state lawmakers have proposed a flurry of bills to restrict foreign ownership of agricultural land in the U.S. That after a Chinese "spy balloon" floated across the U.S. earlier this year.

To progressive Rep. Greg Casar, debt ceiling agreement is 'lose-lose situation'

4:28pm May 30, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Progressive Caucus whip Greg Casar, D-Texas, about the proposed debt ceiling bill.

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The House considers bill that would raise debt ceiling

4:28pm May 30, 2023

by Barbara Sprunt

The House is returning to consider a bill that would avert a historic default. While Biden and McCarthy both see the measure as a needed compromise, some lawmakers aren't convinced it's a good deal.

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North Carolina senator pushing medical marijuana bill describes smoking pot during cancer fight

2:39pm May 30, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

The North Carolina General Assembly's chief advocate for legalizing medical marijuana in the state revealed publicly on Tuesday how he smoked pot over 20 years ago to withstand the discomforts of chemotherapy during a fight with cancer.

Why one expert says America's fentanyl crisis has geopolitical roots

10:34am May 30, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the geopolitics of fentanyl and the opioid crisis at large.

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Voting booths are seen at Glass Elementary School's polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022.

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Is Texas next up? Lawmakers clear the way for the state to leave voter data group ERIC

10:20am May 30, 2023

by Ashley Lopez

Texas is on its way to being the latest — and largest — state to leave a bipartisan data sharing partnership that states across the country use to cross check their voter rolls.

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The debt ceiling compromise isn't sitting well with some conservative Republicans

7:29am May 30, 2023

Conservative Republicans on the House Freedom Caucus are not OK with the compromises made to get the deal done. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina about why.

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