the past few years, you re not sug be surprised by this.t but homelessness grewst a staggering 10% in the cityd 9% last year and 9% in l.a. county. my office staff is afraids ,a and it s so sad for the people that are homeless and a tragedy for the community. when i went outside, there were jus just like families walg around, people walking it w was completely quietring i and safe and boring and a good way. and now i m afraid to go out without my pepper spra y. horrific. and in the big apple, things are off the charts. ba e chd with city shelterse seam busting at the seams filled with illegallled wits. , now, it s so bad that earlier this month, mayor eric adams, even the idea of housing, they would be asylees intos. private homes. that s a bad idea. you don t know youout nothin those people. what he s doing is not for, illa the city. he s destroying the city. well, i wouldn t mind some stranger illegal orl, justf illegal, just a stranger in general. so you re sa
the gentleman from the state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [ cheers and applause ] kevin mccarthy grabbing the gavel after 15 rounds of voting. it was the longest speaker contest in 164 years. despite sometimes contentions and negotiations with the narrow faction of his conference, republicans in the end rallied around mccarthy and his vision for america. i make this promise i ll never give up for you, the american people. and i will never give up on keeping our commitment to america. our nation is worth fighting for. our rights are worth fighting for. our dreams are worth fighting for. cnn s eva mckend is live on capitol hill. eva, what finally pushed mccarthy over the edge for these republican holdouts? reporter: well, he was able to convince those never-kevin lawmakers ultimately vote present and that is how he secured this victory on the 15th try, fred, but also by making some key concessions. so, for instance, those
speaker kevin mccarthy said the talks are, in his view, making headway. i think we re making progress. we re all working together to find a solution. the new concessions first reported by cnn include what was once a red line for mccarthy, agreeing to propose a rules change that would allow just one member of the house to call for a vote to oust the sitting speaker. we re learning this morning that the new concessions are not going over well with some gop moderates who mccarthy cannot afford to lose. he needs all those votes. we re following all of the latest developments on capitol hill this morning. let s begin with cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju. so a lot of talks underway last night. you had a late one. more talk this is morning. where does everything stand? reporter: highly uncertain at the moment. it may happen or collapse. we simply don t know. he still doesn t have the votes to become the speaker of house. last night re reported about the key c
Bishop Joachim of Amissos, PhD
Director of The Archbishop Iakovos Library
Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
I write this short notice to observe the recent death earlier this month, on 16 May, of Professor Anthony Cutler, the professor of Byzantine Art History at The Pennsylvania State University for 51 years.
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