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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is constitutional, fending off a conservative attack on the agency.

The vote in the nation's high court was 7-2, with four conservative justices siding with the three liberals and two conservatives dissenting.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) demanded that Chairman Jim Jordan's (R-OH) House Judiciary Committee hearing be ended, calling it "beyond stupidity."

At Thursday's proceeding, House Republicans sought to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for declining to turn over audio tapes of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur that did not result in criminal charges.

As House Republicans move to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to hand over the audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interviews with President Joe Biden, the White House Counsel has notified two House committee chairmen President Biden is invoking executive privilege on those tapes.

"The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal—to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House Counsel Edward Siskel wrote in his letter to Republican Chairmen Jim Comer and Jim Jordan, as Politico reported. "Demanding such sensitive and constitutionally-protected law enforcement materials from the Executive Branch because you want to manipulate them for potential political gain is inappropriate."

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called out Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) for trying to appease the "MAGA political base" by spending $20 million on hearings to investigate the Biden administration.

At a hearing on Thursday, Jordan complained that Attorney General Merrick Garland had not turned over audio tapes of an interview with President Joe Biden in an investigation that did not lead to a prosecution.

Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo was thrown for a loop by a Republican claiming he could show her proof that president Joe Biden used some type of stimulant to boost his performance during the State of the Union address.

Donald Trump claimed the president was "jacked up" on cocaine during the widely praised speech, and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) echoed that statement and told Bartiromo that Biden would likely need drugs again to compete against his Republican rival in the upcoming debates.

Donald Trump issued a brief but rambling post blaming President Joe Biden for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being shut out of the presidential debates — but then indicated the long-shot challenger had no place onstage.

Kennedy accused the president and former president of "colluding" to exclude him from a June 27 debate hosted by CNN, which would require him to hit 15 percent in four national polls and be listed on the ballot in enough states to have a chance to win 270 electoral votes. But Trump claimed his Democratic rival was behind the move that he also seems to strongly favor.

Oil companies would save an estimated $110 billion in tax breaks if they accepted the "deal" allegedly offered by Donald Trump last month at a fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

The former president reportedly offered to reverse dozens of President Joe Biden's environmental policies and not allow new ones to be enacted in exchange for $1 billion in campaign donations, but an analysis shared with The Guardian showed tax breaks for the industry would be worth nearly 11,000 percent more than that amount.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting tentative progress in combating the opioid epidemic even as experts cautioned against premature celebration.

There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with the decline driven by a drop in fatalities associated with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Fox News Business host Larry Kudlow are promoting a false, fearmongering conspiracy theory President Joe Biden will be handing out green cards to undocumented immigrants in an effort to help them vote. Their remarks come as ex-president Donald Trump, running to retake the White House, has amped up his anti-immigrant focus.

Kudlow on Wednesday said he worries "a lot" that President Biden will be giving green cards to undocumented immigrants who will use them to vote. Senator Blackburn agreed, telling the former Trump National Economic Council Director, "they're gonna try to vote."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Donald Trump against appearing alongside President Joe Biden on the debate stage, where he said his weaknesses and personality flaws will be exposed.

The former president has made Biden's age a core issue in the presidential campaign, but the "Morning Joe" host said the slightly younger Trump actually showed more signs of impairment — and he suspects that his campaign is aware of that and not too eager to highlight the side-by-side comparison.

The Biden campaign on Wednesday proposed a series of two debates with very specific rules, including shutting off the microphone of the candidate not answering a question, and Donald Trump quickly accepted the invitations, including the stipulations, before turning around and proposing an additional series of debates.

In a stinging response the Biden campaign rejected Trump's proposal.