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CNN's Dana Bash challenges Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) over the lack of attention and failure to condemn Hamas' use of sexual violence and rape against Israeli women.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responds to former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney's warning that if there's a second Trump presidency, the country would be "sleepwalking into a dictatorship."

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is predicting Republicans will move to expel Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after George Santos got the boot from Congress, The Messenger reports. Said Swalwell: “With Santos gone, you’re hearing it here first: the next GOP member to leave Congress will be Kevin McCarthy.” He added: “No way he stays.

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“A former American diplomat who served as U. S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government,“ the AP reports. “Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court appearance Monday.”

“The U. S. government is making an intense effort to persuade Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations so they can once again pause hostilities and exchange more prisoners for hostages,” the New York Times reports.