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The House of Representatives abruptly canceled the final two weeks of votes for September, effectively giving the House four days of work before the midterm elections and not being in session during August.
The move comes 60 days before the midterm elections polling shows Democrats poised to win control of the House of Representatives.
But it also comes as Republicans still face major questions about President Donald Trump’s increasingly unpopular war in Iran, the rising cost of living and the president’s plans for overhauling the nation’s capital.
The House passed a continuing resolution earlier this week to keep the government open until December, sending the bill the Senate passed before the recess to the president’s desk. That averted a government shutdown.
House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to face an unruly caucus. Earlier this week, a rule to begin debate on multiple pieces of legislation looked poised to fail after five Republicans defected to vote “no.”
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A man accused of fighting a police officer in a Florida hospital appears to be covered in blood and bruises in his chilling mugshot.
​Ronald Jeffery Johnson, 51, was arrested Saturday after attacking a Fort Lauderdale Police officer at the Broward Health Medical Center, authorities said.
An arrest report obtained by The Independent revealed that an active warrant was already out for Johnson in Georgia, after he failed to appear on “terroristic threats.”
​In his Florida mugshot, Johnson’s blood-covered face looks heavily bruised, with one mark turning purple underneath his eye. The cheek on that side of his face looks heavily swollen. Blood has dried around his nose and mouth, with even one of his ears was soaked red. ​Some of the blood has splattered down onto his heavily tattooed chest.
A gloved hand also appears to be propping Johnson up.
open image in galleryThe mugshot of a man who allegedly attacked a cop in a Florida healthcare facility has been released (Broward County Sheriff&..

The Bank of America vice president fatally stabbed in Times Square was a new mother on her first week back from maternity leave, according to a report.
​Erin Piacenti, 32, was one of two people randomly attacked a short distance from her firm’s tower block in New York City Monday afternoon.
She had stopped in front of a vendor selling sunglasses while heading home from work she was stabbed, The New York Times reported. NYPD officers shot and killed the attacker, later named as 49 year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens.
Just days before the fatal incident, Piacenti had posted a picture on social media holding her newborn daughter and grinning, according to The Times.
open image in gallery​Erin Piacenti, 32-year-old executive at Bank of America, was fatally stabbed in Times Square on Monday (Facebook)​“As my maternity leave comes to an end,” she wrote, “I could not be more grateful for every day of the last five months spent with this amazing little girl.”
Piacenti and her husband Frank h..

Water rescues are underway in southern Texas as former Tropical Storm Edouard continued to dump heavy rain, flooding streets and trapping people in their homes.
An unidentified woman and her four children were rescued from their Livingston mobile home after a creek overflowed, according to Click 2 Houston.
And people in the area were pulled from their cars stuck in flooded roads, KTRE said.
A flash flood emergency has been declared in Hardin and Tyler Counties, northeast of Houston, with rain expected to continue throughout the day and into tomorrow.
The storm has dropped 30 inches over Texas in the course of just 24 hours, WFLA meteorologist Jeff Berardelli wrote on social media.
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