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The White House went after House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) for “blatantly lying” about testimony from a benefactor of Hunter Biden on Friday. “Yet again it appears @JamesComer is blatantly lying about closed-door testimony in the Republicans’ baseless, meandering, and failing so-called ‘impeachment inquiry’ of the President,” White House spokesperson Ian...

Alec Baldwin is again facing an involuntary manslaughter charge related to the 2021 death of a cinematographer on the set of his movie “Rust.” The indictment from a grand jury in Santa Fe, N.M., comes less than a year after prosecutors dropped charges against the 65-year-old actor last April in the shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna...

President Biden on Friday signed a stopgap funding bill that will keep the government open into early March and buy lawmakers time to finish the formal appropriations process. Biden signed the two-step continuing resolution a day after Congress voted to send the legislation to the president's desk. The bill punts the government funding deadline to...

President Biden spoke Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in nearly a month and amid growing frustration in the White House with the Israeli leader over the course of the war against Hamas. The call came following remarks by Netanyahu rejecting the creation of a Palestinian state that the U.S....

Prince Harry is dropping his libel suit against Associated Newspapers Ltd., the publisher of the Mail on Sunday. The 39-year-old British royal had alleged in a 2022 claim that the newspaper publisher, one of the largest in the United Kingdom, had libeled him in an article detailing his security arrangements. The Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday’s...

Commuters lost dozens of hours to traffic congestion last year, according to a new report.

Malia Obama’s short film, called “The Heart,” is getting a screening at the Sundance Film Festival. In a video posted by Sundance about the project, Obama — who wrote and directed “The Heart” — described it as “an odd little story, somewhat of a fable, about a man grieving the death of his mother after she leaves...

The Biden administration announced Friday it was forgiving almost $5 billion for some 73,600 student loan borrowers. The White House said more than half, almost 44,000, of the borrowers who received student debt relief Friday are teachers, nurses, firefighters and other individuals who have been on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program for 10 years....

The Senate Democrats’ campaign arm launched a website on Friday targeting Republicans in battleground states on their past comments on abortion ahead of the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) website, called goponabortion.com and first shared with The Hill, highlights past comments made by Senate candidates in Arizona, Florida,...

House Republican leaders are rallying around two anti-abortion bills ahead of the annual March for Life, though neither seek to limit abortion on a national scale and instead focus on unwanted pregnancies and pregnancy centers. The bills, which passed the House Thursday, match the theme of this year’s event but also underscore the desire of GOP leaders to avoid votes on controversial messaging legislation that would impose...

Leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees are facing pressure to increase funding for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division to aid the agency in bringing cases against the nation’s dominant tech companies, according to a letter sent Thursday. More than a dozen advocacy groups underscored the need for increased funding, based...

A deal reached this week by top tax writing committees in Congress faces a number of hurdles in the House and Senate. Ahead of a Friday markup scheduled for the bill in the House Ways and Means Committee, lawmakers in both chambers have concerns about how exactly the $70 to $80 billion in tax relief...

President Biden is gearing up his reelection campaign with a unique challenge ahead of him — taking on hot-button issues that the Catholic Church opposes. The nation’s only second Catholic president in history often attends Saturday evening mass with his family either near his home in Wilmington, Del., or in Washington, D.C. His religious faith...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been asked to testify before the House Committee on Armed Services on his recent controversial hospitalization. In a Thursday letter, House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ohio) asked that Austin attend a hearing on Feb. 14, saying the committee “expects to hear your direct testimony regarding decisions made to...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended her comment that the United States has “never been a racist country” on Thursday, saying she believes the country's “intent was to do the right thing.”  Haley said at a CNN town hall, moderated by anchor Jake Tapper, that she had to deal with “plenty of racism” as a...

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday hailed the news that Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door deposition later this month with his committee and the House Judiciary Committee. “I think at the end of the day, this is a huge victory for the House Oversight Committee,” Comer said...

Reps. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Thomas Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) wrote a letter to the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) administrator, Shailen Bhatt, expressing their concern about “unnecessary federal overreach” over a federal traffic safety rule. Stanton posted the letter to his account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Thursday, and said that “unnecessary federal...

The Los Angeles Times Guild has announced it will hold a walkout Friday in protest of layoffs and unfair labor practices. “The management of the Los Angeles Times has announced that it intends to imminently lay off a significant number of journalists, and is asking the Guild to gut seniority protections in our union contract...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) blasted the short-term spending bill passed Thursday to keep the government funded through March as a “Pelosi-Esque” deal. The House approved the two-step continuing resolution (CR) in a 314-108 vote just hours after the Senate approved the measure. Boebert was one of the Republicans in opposition of the bill and released...

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said it was “very important” that President Biden took action against the Houthis in the wake of recent strikes conducted against the Yemeni militant group. “You can't play defense continuously, and you have to let them know that they're not going to be able to continue this,” Turner said Thursday on...