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That is Bank of America’s latest forecast for the growth of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The second-largest American bank by assets on Friday revised down its estimate for GDP growth in April through June from 1.5 percent to 0.0 percent, citing weaker than expected consumer spending reported by the Department of Commerce on Thursday. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #US #GDP

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman traded barbs over the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol during a debate on Thursday evening. On the debate stage featuring Cheney and her four primary opponents in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the political scion, who has come under fire from her GOP colleagues for her criticisms of former President Donald Trump and participation in the Jan. 6 committee, defended her participation in the panel investigating the riot at the Capitol, calling on Hageman to state whether she believes the election was stolen. Cheney noted that Hageman’s political adviser Bill Stepien, who previously worked on the Trump campaign, testified before the Jan 6 panel that he doesn’t believe there was widespread fraud. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cheney #Hageman #election #trump

Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) ripped into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after footage emerged of the Democrat seemingly elbowing Flores's young daughter at the congresswoman's swearing-in ceremony. Flores tweeted, "I am so proud of my strong, beautiful daughter for not allowing this to faze her. She continued to smile and pose for the picture like a Queen,". "No child should be pushed to the side for a photo op. PERIOD!!" Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Pelosi #Speaker #trump

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted Chief Justice John Roberts's decision in the landmark Supreme Court opinion upending Roe v. Wade, arguing his decision to disagree with the other Republican-appointed justices shows he "is just making this up." Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Ted_Cruz #Justice_Roberts

Russian President Vladimir Putin is still setting his sights on conquering "most of Ukraine," the United States's top intelligence official said on Wednesday. At a Department of Commerce conference on Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines assessed Russia's goals in Ukraine over four months into the war and said that the U.S. intelligence community believes "an extended period" of fighting is still to come. Putin's pre-invasion goal of seizing the whole of Ukraine remains unchanged, according to Haines, however, she said there appears to be a "disconnect" between the Russian leader's objectives and his military's capacity. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Putin #Ukraine #russia

Former President Donald Trump ridiculed testimony from a former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, about his actions on January 6th. Hutchinson claimed that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine, known as “The Beast,” after his January 6 speech to supporters, and steer the vehicle toward the Capitol Building. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #trump #breakingnews

Rep. Liz Cheney drew battle lines in a speech Wednesday widely billed as an address on the state of the Republican Party. Her remarks, delivered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Simi Valley, California, addressed former President Donald Trump's grip on the GOP. Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 committee, told members of her party they have to make a choice as she tied Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results to the Capitol riot. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cheney #trump #election

Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and twice-failed presidential candidate, should not seek the White House in 2024, says Mark Penn, who served as a top strategist to Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Hillary #fox_news

President Joe Biden left Hunter Biden a voicemail in 2018 about a business deal with Chinese energy giant CEFC, directly contradicting Joe Biden’s statement in 2019 that he and his son had not spoken about the family’s corrupt business schemes. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Joe_Biden #hunter_Biden

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s Tuesday testimony ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump’s political career. Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #hutchinson #Trump

Johnny Depp is set to return to Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise as Captain Jack Sparrow for a reported $301 million. The 59-year-old award-winning actor was dropped from the franchise in 2018 in the wake of abuse allegations by his ex-wife Amber Heard. A Virginia court found that Heard defamed Depp on June 1 and ordered her to pay damages amounting to $15 million. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Depp #disney

Social media users eviscerated pop star Pink for demanding that pro-lifers boycott her music in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade on Friday. “I accept your terms,” one individual replied. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Singer #Pink

The special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) behind former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform has been hit with subpoenas by a federal grand jury. As flagged by New York Times business reporter Matthew Goldstein, Digital World Acquisition said in a recent 8-K filing that earlier this month it "became aware that a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York has issued subpoenas to each member of Digital World’s board of directors." Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #biden

Former President Donald Trump issued a severe smackdown to his Republican haters in a statement on Sunday, characterizing them as talentless fools. Calling out George Will, Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, and others by name, the former president said that nobody should listen to such “foolish (stupid!) people”, as he stated Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #trump

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Supreme Court justices who lied about Roe v. Wade as the court case that set the precedent they would respect during their Senate confirmation should be impeached. 4Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Ocasio-Corte #trump

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he is lost to the U.S. forever. On Friday night he declared “renouncing his citizenship” in the aftermath of the SCOTUS abortion ruling. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #GreenDayfrontmanBillieJoeArmstrong #trump

According to a report from Politico’s Meredith McGraw and Matt Dixon, key Republican donors are growing increasingly put off by what is being described as the “exhausting circus” that surrounds Donald Trump due to his efforts to remain a viable GOP candidate in 2024. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #gop

A top GOP representative danced around accusations he discussed presidential pardons with Congress after defending claims about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that he never requested a pardon because he didn't do anything wrong. A witness told the house select committee last week that Jordan had “discussed” presidential pardons but didn’t testify that he requested one. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #GOP #trump #elaction2022 #Jordan

Former President Donald Trump focused his first public appearance after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade decrying Democratic activists who poured into the streets after a draft opinion for the case was leaked. Speaking to supporters at one of his "Save America" rallies in Mendon, Illinois, Saturday evening, the former commander-in-chief celebrated the ruling as "a victory for the rule of law and above all, a victory for life," and slammed protesters who demonstrated outside the homes of the conservative justices. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #Save_America #maga

Rep. Liz Cheney has sent direct mailers to Wyoming Democrats, requesting they change parties to be eligible to vote in the August Republican primary. The mailer has direct instructions on how Democrat Wyoming voters can change their party affiliation to cast a vote for Cheney, who is down 28 points to Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman. The mailer also displays Cheney’s campaign web address for Democrat voters to learn more specifics. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Cheney #trump #Vote

On Thursday evening, Fox News's Laura Ingraham addressed the newly released Supreme Court decision striking down a long-standing New York concealed carry law, which it said violated the Second Amendment. The law in question for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen required citizens to demonstrate "proper cause" in order to be granted a license for a concealed pistol or revolver. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Ingraham #media

As expected, leftists are melting down following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday. Sadly, it was not just crazed leftists on the streets who turned to fearmongering. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke shortly after the decision, and she wasted no time before beginning her pity party. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #SCOTUS #pelosi #Speaker

According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, Donald Trump is reportedly obsessed with the televised Jan 6th hearings investigating his part in the insurrection that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives, and he is growing angrier each day that his political future is sustaining irreparable damage. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Trump #Jan_6th_hearings

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) brushed off NRA opposition to his gun control package Wednesday, noting that the gun rights group cannot be allowed to “veto good public policy.” Breitbart News reported that the Senate gun control package negotiated by Cornyn, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and others, was put before the public on Tuesday. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #John_Cornyn #NRA

Left-wing Hollywood agitators Barbra Streisand and Mark Ruffalo both took to Twitter Friday to accuse Republicans, Christians, and the U.S. Supreme Court of being the “American Taliban” in the wake of the Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Visit our website: https://nextnewshour.com/ #NNH #Barbra_Streisand #Mark_Ruffalo