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Hunter Biden arrived on Capitol Hill to attend in-person congressional committee meetings called to hold him in contempt of Congress. NBC News’ Sahil Kapur describes how House Republicans responded to the surprise appearance.

Florida’s legislative session kicked off this week, and Republican lawmakers have already introduced more bills targeting LGBTQ people than there have been days in the new year.

Roxanne Doucette charged with attempted murder after someone pretending to be soap star told her to ‘get rid’ of husband A Massachusetts woman has found herself in hot water after she allegedly poisoned her husband’s soup because someone pretending to be soap opera star told her to. Roxanne Doucette of Townsend, Massachusetts, has been charged … Read more

Joan Littlejohn, 84, and Glennwood Fowler, 82, were discovered in house with interior temperature exceeding 120F An elderly couple in South Carolina was found dead in their house over the weekend after their heater measured over 1,000F, according to authorities. On Saturday evening, police in South Carolina’s northern city of Spartanburg performed a welfare check … Read more

Fulton county district attorney ordered to testify in case involving her top prosecutor Nathan Wade and his wife Jocelyn Wade Fani Willis, Georgia’s Fulton county district attorney who brought election interference charges against Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, has been subpoenaed in a divorce case involving a special prosecutor she hired in the Trump case. … Read more

House Republicans are once again finding themselves at odds with each other as threats to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership begin to emerge from the right flank of their conference. “Anyone that wants to go in that direction is showing how unserious they are about us maintaining the majority,” Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., told Fox … Read more

Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance at a Wednesday House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill set off a firestorm of reaction among the committee’s members, including Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who accused the president of having “no balls.” Biden, alongside his attorneys, unexpectedly showed up at the hearing as the committee was preparing to consider the … Read more

New research found that poorest fifth pay a tax rate 60% higher, on average, than the top 1% of households A total of 44 of the 50 US states worsen inequality by making the wealthy pay a lesser share of their income in taxes than lower income people, a new analysis has found. State and … Read more

Even to hardened New Yorkers, a tale of renegade religious diggers pursued by shovel-wielding police officers is irresistible With storms battering the US and Donald Trump back in court claiming immunity this week, light relief comes in the form of a news story we didn’t know we needed: the discovery in Brooklyn of a secret … Read more

Campaign pushes idea oil is ‘vital’ to global security and capitalizes on war in Gaza to escalate production, climate advocates say The American oil lobby has launched an eight-figure media campaign this week promoting the idea that fossil fuels are “vital” to global energy security, alarming climate experts. “US natural gas and oil play a … Read more