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The Biden Gang: Congressional probe puts Hunter Biden’s associates in the crosshairs

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, boards Air Force One with the president, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. Biden is traveling to Camp David in Maryland after visiting with family members following the passing of Michael Hunter, the brother of the president's first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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A House probe into President Biden’s family and the massive profits they reaped from foreign business deals is honing in on the web of business associates of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, according to congressional investigators.

Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang raise a toast following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023. Honduras formed diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP)

Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break 51 minutes ago

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 8, 2023, in Washington. Kathy Chung. a former executive assistant to President Joe Biden has agreed to sit for an interview with the House Oversight Committee as Republicans expand their probe into the president's handling of classified documents. Chung is one of the staffers who packed Biden's belongings at the end of his term as vice president will talk to the committee on April 4. Comer requested the interview. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Comer goes on offense against Trump hush-money case with Manhattan district attorney

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2023. (Alexei Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

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Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to examine worldwide threats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Key Senate Democrat slams DOJ for lack of transparency on Biden’s handling of classified documents

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Joe Tacopina poses for photographers in Venice, Italy, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. New York lawyer Joe Tacopina leads a group of investors who have purchased Venice's fourth-division soccer club. Tacopina and fellow American investors John Goldman and John Tapinis announced the purchase of Venezia FC in the lagoon city Friday. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Trump attorney: Online remarks against Manhattan DA posted by Trump’s ‘social media people’

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., takes her seat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace on 2024 primary: ‘I don’t want to be talking about paying off porn stars’

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Syrian army soldiers fire their weapons during a battle with rebel fighters at the Ramouseh front line, east of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

GOP lawmakers slam Biden’s response to surging strikes by Iran-backed militias

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Members of Pennsylvania's 400 yard freestyle relay team from left Margot Kaczorowski, Hannah Kannan and Lia Thomas, right, celebrate after winning the race at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at Harvard University, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Bans on biological males competing in girls’ sports now sweeping the nation

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Gordon Moore, the legendary Intel Corp. co-founder who predicted the growth of the semiconductor industry, smiles during a news conference, Thursday, May 24, 2001, in Santa Clara, Calif. Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94. Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation say Moore died Friday, March 24, 2023 at his home in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Intel co-founder, philanthropist Gordon Moore dies at 94

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This photo provided by Brazil’s Federal Revenue Department shows jewelry seized by customs authorities at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the week of March 24, 2023. The jewelry is part of an investigation into gifts received by former Brazilian President Jail Bolsonaro during his presidency. (Brazil's Federal Revenue Department via AP)

Bolsonaro’s legal woes deepen with undeclared diamond gifts

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People walk along the Tidal Basin during sunset as cherry blossoms enter their peak bloom this week, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Sweet time in D.C., with cherry blossoms in full bloom

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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, right, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan speak to the press in Washington, USA, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1987. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

Reagan’s foreign policy doctrine contrasted to Biden’s approach to global unrest

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., takes her seat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace on 2024 primary: ‘I don’t want to be talking about paying off porn stars’

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Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to examine worldwide threats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Key Senate Democrat slams DOJ for lack of transparency on Biden’s handling of classified documents

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Joe Tacopina poses for photographers in Venice, Italy, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. New York lawyer Joe Tacopina leads a group of investors who have purchased Venice's fourth-division soccer club. Tacopina and fellow American investors John Goldman and John Tapinis announced the purchase of Venezia FC in the lagoon city Friday. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Trump attorney: Online remarks against Manhattan DA posted by Trump’s ‘social media people’

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In this Nov. 14, 2019, photo, students walk on the campus of Utah Valley University, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

More students avoid college, consider dropping out in COVID era

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U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan spoke on free speech at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government on Friday, March 24, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government)

Judge Kyle Duncan delivers lecture on free speech at Notre Dame after Stanford shutdown

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Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, testifies before the House Rules Committee as Republicans advance the "Parents Bill of Rights Act," at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Republicans pass Parents Bill of Rights Act

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Members of the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities protest before a Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and history to high school students, Sept. 12, 2022, outside the New York State Education Department Building in Albany, N.Y. Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided Thursday, March 23, 2022, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of private and religious schools in New York. (Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP, File)

N.Y.’s power to regulate religious schools trimmed by judge

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Attorney General Merrick Garland listens to a question during a news conference, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y. The Bidens are in Syracuse to visit with family members following the passing of Michael Hunter, the brother of the president's first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

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Jonathan Majors arrives at the American Black Film Festival Honors on March 5, 2023, at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. Majors was arrested Saturday, March 25, in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment after a domestic dispute, authorities said. Representatives for Majors said in a statement to The Associated Press that "he has done nothing wrong." (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

‘Creed III’ actor Jonathan Majors arrested in New York following domestic dispute

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The area for TSA screening of travelers at JFK airport's Terminal 1 is relatively empty, Friday, March 13, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Trans woman says she was assaulted by TSA agent at JFK during airport screening

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Snoop Dogg performs during Shaq's Fun House Super Bowl event on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Photo by Rick Scuteri/Invision/AP)

Mississippi news anchor removed from job after quoting famous Snoop Dogg line

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speak during a press conference in front of Michelangelo's "David statue" after their bilateral summit in Florence, Italy, Jan. 23, 2015. A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo's David sculpture. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Florida principal resigns after parents complain Renaissance art lesson was ‘pornographic’

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Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang raise a toast following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023. Honduras formed diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP)

Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break

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Sacks containing illegal drugs and plastic barrels containing fuel, seized by the armed forces of Venezuela are displayed at a beachside campsite in the village of Tiraya, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. The armed forces of Venezuela announced what they characterized as the largest marijuana bust of the last 10 years after they intercepted a boat off the country's Caribbean coast over the weekend. (AP Photo/Regina Garcia Cano)

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Aerial view of La Saline district in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. In December, the U.N. estimated that gangs controlled 60% of Haiti’s capital, but nowadays most on the streets of Port-au-Prince say that number is closer to 100%. (AP Photo/Fernanda Pesce)

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Syrian army soldiers fire their weapons during a battle with rebel fighters at the Ramouseh front line, east of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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San Diego State forward Aguek Arop (33) celebrates victory against Creighton in the second half of a Elite 8 college basketball game in the South Regional of the NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 26, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. San Diego State won 57-56.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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Gonzaga guard Julian Strawther (0) reacts while talking towards the bench in the first half of an Elite 8 college basketball game against UConn in the West Region final of the NCAA Tournament, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)

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Gonzaga forward Drew Timme hugs head coach Mark Few while checking out of the game during the final minutes in the second half of an Elite 8 college basketball game against UConn in the West Region final of the NCAA Tournament, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)

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Maryland's head coach Brenda Frese yells to her players during the first half of a Sweet 16 college basketball game against against Notre Dame in the NCAA Tournament in Greenville, S.C., Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

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