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FDIC chair is grilled on Capitol Hill after report outlines agency's toxic workplace culture

May. 16, 2024 13:22 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg sat for a second day of grilling Thursday on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agency's toxic workplace culture was released last week. The hearing...

These people were charged with interfering in the 2020 election. Some are still in politics today

Apr. 26, 2024 17:20 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud. At least five states that were won in 2020 by President Joe Biden have investigated...

Washington approves $228 million in US military aid to the three Baltic states, Estonia says

Mar. 23, 2024 11:29 AM EDT

HELSINKI (AP) — The U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative, Estonia’s defense officials said Saturday. The U.S. government funding...

Hunter Biden in defiant deposition blasts GOP, insists he did not involve his father in business

Feb. 28, 2024 20:24 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden was defiant Wednesday in a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill, blasting a Republican impeachment inquiry into his father and the family's business affairs as a “house of cards” built on “lies” as he faced a battery of probing questions from lawmakers. ...