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Republicans are on the cusp of retaining control of the House, which we give the GOP

a trifecta come January, control over both chambers of Congress and the White House.

Speaker Mike Johnson says it's time to move on and

turn the page in the next Congress. This is something that the American people desperately need and

deserve. We are going to raise an America first banner above this place. And you saw a demographic shift

that I was talking about on the campaign trail for over a year, who came

on board with us because they believed in what we were saying. They believed the answers that we

were providing for all the great challenges facing the country. Johnson says he's planning to spend

the weekend at Mar-a-Lago to iron out details on the plans ahead. President-elect Donald Trump says

he plans to nominate Mike Huckabee as the U.S.

ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is a longtime supporter of Israel and a critic of the Biden administration's

handling of the war in Gaza. Saudi Arabia has hosted leaders from the Middle East and Muslim

majority countries for a summit.

They ended with a statement calling for a halt of global armed shipments to Israel and for its suspension at the United Nations.

NPR's Aibatrawi reports the summit did not commit nations to abide by specific measures.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman opened the summit by reaffirming support for a Palestinian state,

denouncing Israeli attacks on Iran, and accusing Israel of carrying out a, quote, genocide in Gaza,

which Israel denies.

Arab leaders, many of whom are opposed to Hamas,

have been divided on how to contain the war, which has spread to Lebanon. And countries like

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