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Read: Hunter Biden's private deposition transcript released

The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee released a transcript for the Hunter Biden closed-door hearing held this week as part of the GOP's investigation into the Biden family's finances.

The hearing came after weeks of drama over the president's son's willingness to testify. Specifically, he demanded that Republicans hold a public hearing so that everything could be out in the open and he could defend himself in front of the American people.

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'Visible cringe': Serviceman scowls amid Trump rant on 'people who don't speak languages'

A serviceman standing behind Donald Trump at a border town press conference Thursday was seen scowling as the former president ranted against "people who don't speak languages."

Trump's visit to Eagle Pass, Texas, was capped with a press conference to discuss U.S. border patrol policies likely to be at the heart of the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Trump shuns reporters when asked about his border plan: 'We're gonna take care of it'

Donald Trump wasn't ready to give details on his border plan while visiting it on Thursday.

Both President Joe Biden and Trump were at the Mexican border addressing issues of border security and immigration. Reporters shouted questions, but all Trump would say was he'll fix it. He then scampered away into an SUV.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't get why Dems don't want Biden to have absolute immunity

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told reporters she's furious with her party over the budget bills. She also downplayed the GOP's failures over the Joe Biden impeachment and championed Donald Trump's immunity case headed to the Supreme Court.

"I think it's great," Greene told Raw Story at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.

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'The View' crowd goes wild over Mitch McConnell's retirement: 'Don't hold back!'

"The View" began talking about the retirement of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — and the audience broke into cheers and applause.

"The other big news out of D.C. yesterday was that the longest serving party leader in Senate history, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced it's time for him to go," Whoopi Goldberg said.

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U.S. lawmakers vote on stopgap bill to avert government shutdown

U.S. lawmakers were set to vote Thursday on a stopgap measure to avert a damaging election-year government shutdown, with funding due to expire for several key federal agencies if they do not act by the weekend.

Five months into the fiscal year, Congress still has not approved the 12 annual spending bills that make up the federal budget, and is facing deadlines of midnight on Friday night and March 8 to keep the lights on.

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'This reality is mind-boggling': Journalist astonished by Trump's latest pro-Putin gambit

Journalist Anne Applebaum, who writes about American foreign policy for The Atlantic, brings word that American allies around the world are astonished that former President Donald Trump is using his influence within the Republican Party to block security assistance to Ukraine.

In her latest column, Applebaum writes that there is a sense of disbelief that a presidential candidate would not only work to undermine his own country's global stature but also to drag the leadership of his political party along for the ride.

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Republicans caught off guard by 'prepared and disciplined' Hunter Biden: sources

Republicans seemed to be caught off guard by Hunter Biden's preparation and discipline during a grueling, closed-door deposition.

President Joe Biden's son appeared Wednesday before the Oversight and Judiciary committees to discuss his foreign business dealings, which have become the focus of an impeachment inquiry, but Washington Post reporter Jackie Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Republicans failed to rattle him, as they perhaps intended.

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Trump's claim of Black voter support due to his legal woes dismantled by pollsters

A boast by Donald Trump last week that he is making inroads with Black voters due to his legal problems is getting side-eye from pollsters who claim there is little to no evidence at all of his claim.

During his speech before a South Carolina gathering of Black conservatives the multi-indicted Trump told the crowd, "...a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against," he claimed, before adding, "I think that’s why the Black people are so much on my side now," he added later in the speech. "Because they see what’s happening to me happens to them.”

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SCOTUS put Trump's Jan. 6 case on 'life support' by pondering his immunity claim: expert

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Donald Trump's broad claim of presidential immunity, and that decision put his federal election subversion case "on life support" – even if the justices ultimately rule against him.

The court will hear arguments April 22, with a ruling expected in late June, and that timeline could forestall his trials in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents trial in Florida and the Jan. 6 case in Washington, D.C., although MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann told "Morning Joe" he doesn't believe Trump will win his appeal but he doesn't think that will ultimately matter.

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Biden, Trump set for rival U.S.-Mexico border visits

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will pay dueling visits to the US-Mexico border Thursday as they try to win over voters on one of the most divisive issues of November's presidential election.

The showdown in Texas comes as record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States create a major threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback.

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Biden declared 'fit for duty' as age issue looms in election

President Joe Biden remains "fit for duty" with no new health worries, his doctor said Wednesday after the 81-year-old's last medical ahead of an election in which his age is a key issue.

The keenly awaited annual examination at the Walter Reed military medical center outside Washington came just weeks after a special counsel report that portrayed him as elderly and forgetful.

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'MAGA had an awful day': Mary Trump says Wednesday showed that 'Donald is vulnerable'

Donald Trump's niece said on Wednesday that her uncle and his fans had a bad day, despite the fact that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the ex-president's immunity claim.

Mary Trump, a psychologist who just last week said Donald's "untreated psychiatric condition" is worsening, focused in on her uncle's legal problems in her Substack piece Wednesday evening. The post came the same day as the nation's top court decided to take on Trump's immunity appeal, a move some experts have warned plays into the criminal defendant's hands.

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