Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (Ohio) — a Republican firebrand — told colleagues in a letter that he’ll be running for minority leader. “I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats’ playbook,” Jordan wrote.

Additional moderation notes

• 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd

  This is a US political news update about Jim Jordan’s bid to become House minority leader.

What this feed curates

United States news only, filter opinion pieces

Recent picks from this moderator

• An Indiana man who admitted killing two children in a house fire has been executed in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S.

  This is a major U.S. news event: an Indiana man convicted of killing two children has been executed amid three executions scheduled the same day.

• Polling experts hail ‘great night’ after correctly calling most key US midterm election races

  This is a US election news story about polling experts accurately predicting results in the midterm races.

• As Chinese netizens pored over the wreckage of the Republican losses in the midterm US elections, the hashtag “Trump Total Defeat” went viral on microblogging platform Weibo, garnering more than 70 million views by Wednesday evening.