WASHINGTON (AP) — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans kept the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed again and again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel.

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Mr McCarthy could not garner enough GOP votes to claim the speaker’s gavel after two consecutive voice votes

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