Comer must face ethics investigation for Biden inquiry fundraising: Democratic group
EXCLUSIVE — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) could face an ethics investigation over allegations the Kentucky Republican is using his high-profile impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden for campaign fundraising. The Democratic-aligned Congressional Integrity Project sent a request to the Office of Congressional Ethics to determine whether Comer violated House rules by soliciting […]
Lawmakers call for further inquiry into Virginia prison that had hypothermia hospitalizations
Hypothermia hospitalizations and other suspicious circumstances at Virginia prisons uncovered in a recent report deserve further scrutiny, leading state Democratic lawmakers said this week. Lawmakers have promised to hold Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration to account and have called on a newly created prison oversight agency to investigate the findings of an Associated Press report […]
Inquiry into child sexual abuse on Meta platforms leads to arrest of three men | Meta
Three men have been arrested and charged with sexually preying on children through meth social networks in New Mexico, New Mexico’s attorney general announced Wednesday. The arrest stemmed from an investigation into the potential harm to children posed by Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, codenamed “Operation MetaPhile.” Three men were recruited by an undercover agent posing […]
Chamber of Commerce pushes back on Ways and Means Committee inquiry
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is rejecting a House Ways and Means Committee investigation into donations it received from left-leaning nonprofits and reporting by right-wing news outlets that sparked the investigation. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Missouri), chairman of the Main Tax Writing Committee, said: letter On Monday, we asked Chamber President and CEO Suzanne Clark and […]
Post Office investigators saw Horizon victims as ‘enemies’, inquiry told | Post Office Horizon scandal
Post office managers who blamed the Horizon IT system for cash shortages at their branches were deemed “enemies of the business” by state-owned company investigators, a public inquiry has revealed. The Post Office investigation uncovered portions of a draft report prepared in 2013 by researchers from accounting firm Second Sight. The report had been commissioned […]
Columbia University calls for inquiry into leadership as student protests sweep 40 campuses | Protest
At least 40 pro-Palestinian protest camps have formed across U.S. campuses, following Columbia University’s example earlier this month, as the New York University Senate called for an investigation into the school’s leadership, The New York Times reported. Ta. Hundreds of students and outside protesters arrested, many peaceful but still provocative, demanding a ceasefire in the […]
White House deems House impeachment inquiry ‘over,’ President Biden formally declines to testify
The White House has formally rejected a request by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) to testify against President Biden regarding his son Hunter’s business dealings. “As our office has proven and you acknowledged in your recent fundraising emails, your impeachment investigation is over,” Richard Sauber, the presidential special counsel, said in a letter […]
Biden declines invitation to testify in GOP impeachment inquiry
President Biden on Monday formally rejected a request to testify in the Republican impeachment inquiry investigating corruption allegations. “The committee’s purported ‘impeachment inquiry’ has only succeeded in uncovering abundant evidence that the president has done nothing wrong,” White House Counsel Richard said. – Sauber said in a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer […]
White House rejects House GOP effort for Biden to testify in Oversight impeachment inquiry
The White House rejected an invitation by the House Oversight Committee for President Joe Biden to testify as part of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry. In a letter sent on Monday, Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, declined the committee’s invitation and decried the GOP’s impeachment inquiry, which has stalled in recent months, as […]
Ex-Post Office boss wrote of ‘subbies with hand in the till’, inquiry hears | Post Office Horizon scandal
A former post office boss sent an email to two employees in 2009, telling them that his intuition about the Horizon scandal was that his “subordinates with their hands in the cash register” were blaming the technology. It was revealed. The message from Paula Vennels’ predecessor Alan Cooke was revealed during a session of the […]