{"id":4464,"date":"2025-01-05T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-us-reels-after-new-years-attacks-119th-congress-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:22:09","slug":"live-updates-us-reels-after-new-years-attacks-119th-congress-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-us-reels-after-new-years-attacks-119th-congress-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: US reels after New Year\u2019s attacks; 119th Congress kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, the U.S. saw a pair of New Year&rsquo;s Day attacks in Nevada and Louisiana that took multiple lives and injured dozens, and the 119th Congress kicked off with a packed first day. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was&nbsp;reelected to the highest post in the lower chamber&nbsp;in a lengthy first-round vote Friday afternoon&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5067700-live-updates-us-reels-after-new-years-attacks-119th-congress-kicks-off\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week, the U.S. saw a pair of New Year&rsquo;s Day attacks in Nevada and Louisiana that took multiple lives and injured dozens, and the 119th Congress kicked off with a packed first day. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was&nbsp;reelected to the highest post in the lower chamber&nbsp;in a lengthy first-round vote Friday afternoon&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}