Quick Glance: Shohei Ohtani's Interpreter Fired Amid Gambling Allegations
- Shohei Ohtani's friend and interpreter at the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ippei Mizuhara, was fired due to allegations of theft and illegal gambling.
- Mizuhara was suspected of $4.5 million being transferred from Ohtani's bank account to an illegal bookmaker in Southern California.
- Ohtani's lawyers revealed that Ohtani was a victim of massive theft and the matter is being handed over to the authorities.
- Mizuhara refused to comment on the allegations, and investigations are ongoing.
BREAKING: Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones are ousted from Tennessee House after gun protest, marking the first partisan expulsion in the state's ... Show more https://abcn.ws/3UdTLtb
Quick Glance: Tennessee House to vote on expelling three Democrats over a gun protest
- The Tennessee state House will vote Thursday on whether to expel three Democratic members for participating in anti-gun violence protests inside the Capitol, a high-stakes vote that has drawn national attention due to its unusual partisanship.
- "They have gone to extreme consequences for three members who spoke without permission," Johnson told POLITICO.
- Removing Johnson and her colleagues would set a "terrible precedent," according to her.
- According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Tennessee Republicans are "shrugging in the face of yet another school shooting."
As climate change challenges the economic viability of ski resorts, Reps. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) and John Curtis (R-Utah) join Washington Post Live to ... Show more
Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar hold press conference on committee assignments.
Quick Glance: McCarthy fires top Democrats from the Intelligence Committee
- Rep. Kevin McCarthy is allowing Rep.
- George Santos will continue to serve on committees.
- "Jeffries had rallied McCarthy on Monday to allow the two to serve on the committee, pointing out the "double standard" of allowing serial liar Rep.
- McCarthy had previously argued that Swalwell should not serve on the committee due to his previous association with a Chinese spy.
Reps. Jeff Jackson, Alma Adams and Wiley Nickel are pushing to ban individual stock sales in Congress. Here’s why that would impact many of their North ... Show more
Reps. Michael McCaul and Mike Turner, R-Ohio insisted that the incoming House Republican majority would continue to support funding and arming Ukraine in ... Show more https://abcn.ws/3VxLvDW
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Quick Glance: Protesters for abortion rights and lawmakers arrested outside the Supreme Court
- Seventeen members of Congress, including Democrats Reps.
- On July 19, 17 members of Congress were arrested and later freed during an abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court.
- In the weeks following the Supreme Court's ruling, patients have been denied much-needed maternal health care due to confusion regarding new abortion-related rules.
- Protesters for abortion rights marched from the United States Capitol to the street in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, carrying a giant orange banner that read, "Our Bodies."