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The White House on Thursday sent a $40 billion supplemental funding request to Congress, which included nearly $800 million allocated to combat the fentanyl crisis. The funding appeal, signed by Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, also requested additional funding for Ukraine assistance, disaster relief efforts and border management. Young specified in the letter that the resources going toward the Southwest border crisis will also contribute to reducing the “the influx of fentanyl across our borders and counter the threat fentanyl poses to our public health.” ......

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is expected in court Wednesday to plead guilty to federal tax charges. It will mark the end of a yearslong investigation into Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings that has been spotlighted throughout his father’s presidency. It’s also the first time the Justice Department has brought charges against a sitting president’s child. Biden, 53, is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses as part of a plea deal. The plea agreement in federal court in Delaware will make the investigation “resolved,” Biden’s attorney Chris Clark said ......

A Springfield, Missouri woman being held without bond in a Washington, D.C., jail for allegedly violating probation in her Capitol riot case was released this week and ordered to be returned to Missouri. Mahailya Pryer was to be taken immediately to a facility in Springfield to attend an inpatient substance abuse program, a federal judge ordered. The judge said she would return to D.C. later for a hearing on the violations. Pryer, 35, pleaded guilty in May 2022 to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building and was sentenced in September to 45 days of in......

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Prosecutors confronted Alex Murdaugh for the first time about his presence at the dog kennels where his wife and son were killed. The disbarred Lowcountry attorney emphatically denied killing his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s rural Colleton County home on June 7, 2021. But he admitted first on the witness stand Thursday that he lied to investigators about being with Maggie and Paul at the property’s dog kennels shortly before the murders, after a video shot on Paul’s cellphone captured his voice at the scene. Prosecutor Creighton Waters confronted Murdaugh abo......

Prosecutors confronted Alex Murdaugh for the first time about his presence at the dog kennels where his wife and son were killed. The disbarred Lowcountry attorney emphatically denied killing his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s rural Colleton County home on June 7, 2021. But he admitted first on the witness stand Thursday that he lied to investigators about being with Maggie and Paul at the property’s dog kennels shortly before the murders, after a video shot on Paul’s cellphone captured his voice at the scene. Prosecutor Creighton Waters confronted Murdaugh about that statement F......

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Jurors in Alex Murdaugh’s murder trial heard testimony for the first time Tuesday about allegations the former Hampton-based lawyer had for years stolen millions of dollars from his former law firm, and learned how those thefts might play into the motive for the June 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. On Monday, Judge Clifton Newman ruled the jury could hear for the first time witness testimony about Murdaugh’s 10 years of hidden thefts from his law firm, his clients and others of more than $4.8 million. That opened the way on Tuesday for two witnesses — Murdau......