5/20: The fight heats up over creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the assault on the Capitol.

Last night, in the House chamber where rioters tried to break in, 217 Democrats and 35 Republicans voted to form an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate what happened. Israel and Hamas exchanged new attacks this morning, while the White House is pushing for an end to more than a week of deadly fighting. President Biden plans to sign a bill today aimed at fighting a surge in discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Texas has just adopted one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation. Newly-released bodycam video of an arrest in 2019 seems to show Louisiana state troopers tasing, punching, and dragging a Black man who later died in their custody. Deadly spring storms continue to drench parts of the Deep South this morning.

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