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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said the evidence they had collected on the financial transactions of President Joe Biden’s family members would make the Watergate scandal look like jaywalking. So in early May, people tuned in to watch Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and other Republican members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee attempt to explain how members of the Biden family had received money from foreign businesses while Biden was in office as vice president through a tangled web of financial ties that fell short of directly tying the money to Biden. Standing in the background was......

A handful of races featuring some of the most unconventional candidates in recent memory will determine the control of the Senate in four weeks, when voters hit the polls in the Nov. 8 midterm elections. Little is certain in the election season, fought in the shadow of a possible Donald Trump comeback and a momentous Supreme Court ruling ending the federal right to abortion. Analysts believe the Senate, which Democrats have held by a bare majority since 2021, could go either way. For Republicans to wrest back control of the chamber, they will need to overcome challenges both structural — they ......

ALBANY, N.Y. — Brian Benjamin’s indictment on federal bribery charges came as a “surprise” to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who claimed Wednesday she was caught off guard by the scandal that ensnared her hand-picked right-hand man. The governor said she made the best decision she could “based on the information I had at the time” when choosing Benjamin to be her lieutenant governor last year, despite ethical questions raised before his appointment. “Clearly, we need a better process. It was very disappointing to me personally how this played out,” she told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. Benjamin resigned Tuesday, ......

ORLANDO, Fla. — An organization that gave more than $1 million in 2020 to the dark-money nonprofit at the center of Florida’s “ghost” candidate scandal is seeking to block the public disclosure of bank records that would reveal its donors. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office obtained the bank records for “Let’s Preserve the American Dream,” a nonprofit with close ties to Associated Industries of Florida, the state’s largest business lobbying group whose donors include Florida Power & Light and Florida Crystals. The nonprofit was recently informed that it is being investigated for potential ......

ORLANDO, Fla. — The dark-money nonprofit that worked with Republican strategists last year to promote spoiler independent candidates in important state Senate races in Florida also raised more than $700,000 from organizations controlled by Democratic fundraisers. The nonprofit, Grow United Inc., which is based out of a UPS Store in Denver, provided more than half a million dollars last fall that Republican strategists used to advertise little-known independent candidates who did no campaigning of their own in three key Senate elections — one in Central Florida and two in South Florida. The ads......

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York Assembly’s impeachment investigation into Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “nearing completion” as lawmakers warn they will “soon consider potential articles of impeachment against” the scandal-scarred governor. Cuomo, who has defiantly resisted calls to resign in the wake of a report outlining sexual harassment allegations against the governor, has until Aug. 13 to provide any “additional evidence,” according to a letter sent to his lawyers on Thursday. “We write to inform you that the Committee’s investigation is nearing completion and the Assembly will soon consider potentia......