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Republican deficit hawks allowed President Trump’s bill of legislative priorities to advance out of the House Budget Committee in an unusual late-night vote on Sunday, marking a key hurdle cleared for House GOP leaders and a sign of progress for warring Republican factions After gaveling in after 10 p.m. on Sunday, the committee voted 17-16-4 to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would extend Trump’s tax cuts and boost his border funding priorities while reforming Medicaid and food assistance programs. The vote comes after four hardline conservatives on the committee tanked a vote on the legislation Friday, saying...

NOW: Motion to Recommit to vote for Final Passage of HR 2419. I thought I was watching British Parliament. There was lots of booing and another source is BNA News re: the farm bill. This is a battle royale and partisan per BNA News, Derrick Cain. Taking money from farmers and transferring it to conservation. FV

Bill O’Reilly’s “O’Reilly Factor” remains the top-rated cable news show but his syndicated radio show has not translated as well. After more than three years on 680/The Fan, sandwiched between sports talk shows, he is now being moved to WFOB-AM1230, which only covers Cobb County. His replacement, ESPN syndicated sports talker Dan Patrick, takes over the 1 to 3 p.m. slot. President David Dickey said he thinks Patrick has improved the past four years and fits better with the station. 790/The Zone’s Steak Shapiro, whose station has beaten 680/The Fan for most of the past three years in ratings, told...

Chinese scientists are appealing to the Guinness Book of Records to recognise a 900 kilo pig which died earlier this month as the biggest ever porker. The pig was 2.5 metres long, had a waistline of 2.23 metres and a tusk of 14.4cms long when it died on February 5, aged five, said its keeper, Xu Changjin, a farmer of Wafangdian city. Xu said that he had kept his pig in a nicely built sty and fed it quality fodder all its life. Professor Liu Mingyu, a life scientist with prestigious Liaoning University, says that the pig had died from...