It has been abundantly clear for months that the House Republican case suggesting that President Biden was corruptly involved in his son Hunter’s business engagements was a function of frenzied cherry-picking. When Hunter Biden came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to answer questions from legislators and investigators working on the impeachment inquiry targeting his father, […]Read More

Hunter Biden sharply rebutted allegations that his father was involved with his business ventures, testifying repeatedly over the course of a nearly seven-hour deposition that Joe Biden did not receive money or benefit financially from any of his son’s business ventures, according to a transcript of his appearance released on Thursday. Hunter Biden, who appeared […]Read More

Congress passed legislation Thursday to prevent a looming partial government shutdown, extending funding for federal agencies later into March — and teeing up another mad scramble over policy and spending negotiations with another shutdown deadline only about a week away. The stopgap spending bill — known as a continuing resolution, or CR — cleared the […]Read More

Hunter Biden’s appearance in front of investigators and members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees unfolded a bit like a Bruce Lee movie. Republican legislators and interviewers challenging the president’s son on the House majority’s behalf would throw out an allegation, often one that’s been worn smooth after tumbling around in the right-wing media […]Read More

ORLANDO — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to push back Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida to July 8, probably after the Supreme Court rules on his claim of presidential immunity, while Trump’s lawyers are trying again to delay the trial until after the next presidential election, in which Trump is the Republican […]Read More

Critics of former president Donald Trump and some legal experts voiced frustration after the Supreme Court announced it would take up Trump’s claim of total presidential immunity, a move that will further delay his D.C. criminal trial centered on his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. The trial judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals […]Read More

A tree cutter who smoked marijuana in a senator’s office during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 3½ years in prison Thursday after his strategy of interrupting and challenging the sentencing judge seemed to blow up in his face. A jury in U.S. District Court in D.C. last year […]Read More

BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — President Biden and former president Donald Trump visited separate Texas border towns Thursday, blaming each other for a surge in illegal immigration and seeking to take the offensive on an issue that is shaping up to be a critical and volatile factor in this year’s presidential contest. Biden used his visit in […]Read More

An off-duty Tennessee sheriff’s deputy who claimed he was helping police was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for aggravated assaults against two officers in one of the most violent areas of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. Ronald McAbee, 30, struck D.C. police officer Carter Moore twice in the face while […]Read More

The Alabama Supreme Court this month ignited a debate over in vitro fertilization (IVF). Democrats could scarcely be more anxious to have that debate — and Republicans could scarcely be more uneasy about it. The most recent developments: Alabama Republicans rushed to pass legislation to protect IVF in the state, which the state Supreme Court […]Read More