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Kevin Lamarque/ReutersHunter Biden's legal defense team on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the federal tax case against him, arguing that the president's son has been subjected to a politically motivated prosecution.
At a hearing in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi pressed Biden's attorneys to show evidence to support their claims. He said he would likely rule on the motions to dismiss by April 17.
Biden was not in attendance at the hearing where his legal team—led by Abbe Lowell—argued that GOP lawmakers and former president Donald Trump had an improper influence on the case, leading to the unraveling of a plea deal last summer, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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A fund-raiser on Thursday intends to raise $25 million to help re-elect the president, who has amassed a roster of achievements, but whose approval ratings are the lowest of the three.
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As the impeachment inquiry into the Biden family's business dealings came crashing down around his ears, House Oversight chair James Comer—who for months has made overblown claims about the Bidens' limited liability companies—was launching an opaque new LLC of his own.
Comer registered the new company, called "Gamaliel Stargazer LLC," in Kentucky on March 14, as House Republicans were scrambling to find a way to end their disastrous impeachment probe with dignity.
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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyMarilyn Lands has just won the special election for Alabama House District 10—a district where she, a Democrat who speaks openly about having an abortion, was a startling break from the status quo—by a whopping 25 percentage points. She could be basking in the glow of her victory or out celebrating with the family and friends who attended her watch party last night. But Lands is already looking toward the future.
"It gives me a lot of hope for this state in 2026," she said Wednesday in an interview from her home in Huntsville. "I hope that this will be the start of us winning some more seats in 2026 and really beginning to break that [Republican] super majority."
Lands, 65, is a mother and licensed mental health counselor who, infuriated with Alabama's decision to outlaw abortion and briefly ban IVF, decided to run a campaign in the deep South focused heavily on reproductive rights.
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Mike Segar/ReutersThe bodies of two workers who fell into the Patapsco River after a massive container ship slammed into and destroyed Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this week were recovered on Wednesday morning, authorities confirmed. The search for four others was suspended, with authorities citing conditions in the water that made it too dangerous for dive teams to continue.
The two men were found around 10 a.m. in a red pickup truck submerged in 25 feet of water, Col. Roland L. Butler Jr., secretary of Maryland State Police, said at an evening news conference. They were identified as Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, of Baltimore, originally from Mexico; and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, of Dundalk, Maryland, who was from Guatemala.
Both were part of a construction crew fixing potholes on the bridge, as were the four men who remain missing, Butler said. He explained that the missing are believed to be "encased" within the mangled debris of the 1.6-mile-long bridge. "We have exhausted all search efforts in the area around this wreckage," he said.
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Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died at his home in the Bronx.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the abortion pill mifepristone, which is available by mail and can be taken at home, even in states that have severely limited or banned abortions. The case was brought by a group of anti-choice medical associations that have sought to overturn moves by the Food and Drug Administration to increase access to the drug, which is used for roughly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions. This was the first abortion-related Supreme Court hearing since the court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. A decision is expected by July. "Overall the justices showed that they were skeptical of the claims brought by the plaintiffs in this case," says Michele Goodwin, a law professor at Georgetown University and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. Goodwin summarizes the arguments presented by both sides, the justices' responses and the legal implications of the upcoming ruling.
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Some Republican officials, candidates and right-wing pundits are attempting to connect the tragedy to some of their most frequent political targets: diversity initiatives, illegal immigration, covid lockdowns and the Biden administration.
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As Al Gore's Democratic running mate in 2000, he was the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party.
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Read CNN's John Delaney Fast Facts and learn more about the businessman, former US representative from Maryland and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
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Marilyn Lands flipped a State House seat in the deep-red state by 25 percentage points, underscoring the continued political potency of reproductive rights.
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Tammy Murphy, New Jersey's first lady, ended her Senate campaign, despite an early air of inevitability to her candidacy.
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