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Speaking to Republicans on Capitol Hill during a closed-door hearing this Wednesday, Hunter Biden told them that claims his father participated in his foreign business dealings are all lies.

“I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business,” Hunter Biden said in an opening statement. “Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never.”

Witnesses pushed back on Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Wednesday after he suggested women were receiving abortions "up to the moment of birth."

At a Senate Budget Committee hearing about reproductive health, Middlebury College Prof. Caitlin Myers disagreed after Kennedy called a fetus a "baby."

A federal appeals court has denied Mark Meadows' effort to move his Georgia prosecution into federal court.

The full bench of the 11th District Court of Appeals in Atlanta denied his request to reconsider a unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel to remove the criminal case from state court to federal court, although none of the judges requested a poll in this ruling.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was asked by Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo to provide proof that President Joe Biden had benefited from his son's overseas business dealings — and came up woefully short in his response.

While discussing the GOP's impeachment inquiry into Biden, Bartiromo asked Johnson to point to specific proof of wrongdoing by the president that would justify removing him from office.

Texas billionaire hedge funder Kyle Bass took to the internet to complain about paying $14 for orange juice while having a room-service breakfast in a five-star hotel in New York City.

It didn't go down well.

Donald Trump's lawyers have asked a New York appeals court to pause the $454 million damages payment he owes until it rules on his civil fraud verdict.

The former president has less than 30 days to pay the massive amount — plus 9 percent daily interest — or the New York attorney general's office will begin the process of executing judgment, possibly even seizing his properties.

Hunter Biden arrived on Capitol Hill Wednesday to answer questions about whether his father benefited financially from his international business — just days after the GOP's top witness was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI about the investigation.

The development involving ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov is considered by some as the point the case against the president collapsed, as Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) put it.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, opposed to a government shutdown but appearing willing to allow it to happen, during Tuesday's White House meeting offered President Joe Biden and top congressional leaders the opportunity to kick the can down the road in his latest policy "switch."

Some members of the D.C. press described it as "neck-snapping" flip-flopping.

Thanks to "one-half of one of the three branches of the federal government" being "completely dysfunctional" under GOP leadership, America is facing the reality of another government shutdown, according to columnist Heather Digby Parton.

And she puts the blame squarely on one person who, she says, isn't showing the "guts" to do his job.

With Hunter Biden due to testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) delivered some pre-testimony spin to reporters where he torched the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as a complete failure.

As reported by the Washington Examiner's Cami Mondeaux, Raskin held court and stuck a metaphorical fork in the impeachment inquiry.

Spiritual adviser Marianne Williamson ended her outsider campaign for president earlier this year after poor showings at the ballot box in the Democratic primary. However, on Wednesday, she posted an announcement that she was "unsuspending" her campaign to jump back into the race.

This comes after she got more votes in the Michigan Democratic primary than the only other significant primary challenger to President Joe Biden, Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips — despite her campaign being over and despite her having not actively campaigned for the state.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is the only Republican still willing to challenge former President Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination — and yet she is far behind the former president, and with Trump's win in Michigan, her hopes of catching up to him appear to be fading fast as she is running out of options for states where she could plausibly defeat him.

One reason for that might be she can't even be honest with herself about who the people supporting her campaign are, former Republican consultant Amanda Carpenter suggested on X Wednesday morning.

Melania Trump smashed the norms for being first lady because she didn't actually want to be in the White House, according to the author of a new book on the wives of recent presidents.

Katie Rogers, author of the new book "American Woman," which examines the role of first ladies from Hillary Clinton to Melania Trump, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what made Donald Trump's wife stand out from the others who held that ceremonial role before her.