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Month: December 2023

House Oversight GOP release document showing payments made by Hunter Biden to his dad; documents say they were for a car

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a document showing payment from Hunter Biden’s business entity, Owasco PC, to President Joe Biden when he was not in office, but neglected to include evidence that the president’s son was repaying his father for a car. The redacted document provided to

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Lawsuit seeks to block North Carolina congressional map, alleging it discriminates against minority voters

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — A group of Black and Latino North Carolina voters has filed a lawsuit against the state’s new congressional map, alleging it “intentionally discriminates against minority voters” and is therefore unconstitutional. The map, approved by the state’s GOP-led General Assembly in October, favors the GOP in 10 of the state’s

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British Museum loan to Greece coincides with dispute over demand to return Parthenon Marbles

By THANASSIS STAVRAKIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s Acropolis Museum has launched an exhibition that includes a renowned ancient Greek water jug from 420 B.C. on loan from the British Museum. The exhibit comes during a dispute between the countries over Greek demands for the return of sculptures from the

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Stock market today: Wall Street retreats after Moody’s downgrades China’s credit rating

By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street headed lower early Tuesday after Moody’s Investor Service downgraded China’s sovereign debt rating as the country’s real estate crisis seeps into its local government and private financing. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 lost 0.3% and 0.4%, respectively. In

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Cause sought of explosion that leveled an Arlington, Virginia, home as police tried to serve warrant

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Hours before a massive explosion destroyed a duplex and shook a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., a suspect inside his home fired a flare gun 30 to 40 times into the neighborhood, drawing a large police response, officials said Tuesday. All officers escaped serious injury but

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