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The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has asked a Treasury Department official to testify in its investigation into the Biden family finances, according to a letter sent Friday obtained by NBC News.  It’s the most significant escalation in a long-running — and thus far unsuccessful — effort by the GOP-led committee …

The off-campus residence where four University of Idaho students were found dead in November will be demolished, the school said Friday. The owner of the three-story King Street House where the bodies of Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were found was offered to the university. The …

State suggests Murdaugh intentionally lied about being at dog kennels In a testy exchange with prosecution, Murdaugh suggested that the state operated with bad faith, by not responding to emails from his defense attorneys and refusing requests to meet. Prosecutor Waters shot back that Murdaugh had the opportunity multiple times …

Ukraine’s population was 41.9 million in 2020, excluding the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, according to the Ukrainian government’s statistics service. That means about 19% of Ukraine’s prewar population, roughly the equivalent of the population of Washington state, have fled the country. Russia has had its own mass migration as a result …

Rep. Judy Chu, the chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, blasted GOP Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas on Thursday over his comments this week questioning her loyalty to the U.S. Chu, D-Calif., issued a statement in response to Gooden’s remarks in a Fox News interview Wednesday night, when …

Actor Alec Baldwin has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie and waived his first formal court appearance, in court documents filed Thursday. Baldwin and a weapons supervisor were charged last month with felony …

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., is set to argue before a federal appeals court Thursday against the Justice Department’s bid to access the contents of his phone. The FBI seized Perry’s phone last year as part of the department’s Jan. 6 investigation. Perry, an ally of former President Donald Trump who …

The Israeli military said it and other agencies “neutralized” three wanted suspects who were involved in carrying out shooting attacks, and who were planning future attacks. Two of the three were killed in a shootout, it said. The raid, coupled with the high death toll, raised the prospect of further …

Days before the body of a New Jersey teacher was found in a shallow grave, authorities impounded a car linked to her former partner that had pick axe, a shovel and a blood-stained rope inside of it, according to court documents released Wednesday. The details were included in an affidavit …

The man accused of fatally shooting a popular Southern California bishop said the slain priest owed him money, but investigators rejected that claim Wednesday. Carlos Medina, 61, has been formally charged with murder in the death of Bishop David O’Connell, 69, and could face 35 years to life in prison, …