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Hunter Biden is at the center of the fake misconduct accusations against his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, that generated real misconduct by President Donald Trump. The way to understand him is to know that he’s not Beau Biden. Hunter is the younger of Joe Biden’s two sons. He never showed as much promise as his brother Beau, stumbling through life and often trading on his dad’s name and…

North Korea on Wednesday fired at least one projectile toward its eastern sea, South Korea’s military said, in an apparent display of its expanding military capabilities ahead of planned nuclear negotiations with the U.S. this weekend.

California’s chief elections officer said Tuesday he will appeal a federal judge’s order to block a law that would require President Trump to release his tax returns for access to the state’s primary election ballot. The decision by Secretary of State Alex Padilla came just hours after U.S. District Judge Morrison England Jr.’s ruling became final. England made a tentative ruling almost two weeks ago to block the new California…

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There’s new information about President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president that triggered the House impeachment investigation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was listening to that phone call. This indicates he knew months ago that the president wanted Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden. Paula Reid reports. Watch “CBS This Morning” HERE: http://bit.ly/1T88yARDownload the CBS News app on iOS HERE: https://apple.co/1tRNnUyDownload the CBS News app on Android HERE: https://bit.ly/1IcphuXLike…

Video Ukraine’s former prime minister says Hunter Biden must be investigated Robin Biro and Rachel Bovard debate whether or not Joe Biden will still be able to win the 2020 Democratic nomination if there is a probe into his son’s business dealings. Major broadcast network news shows only spent 11 percent of its Ukraine coverage referencing the controversy surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings, right-leaning media watchdog Newsbusters reported…

Since the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2014, I’ve stood with hundreds of families impacted by police violence. With few exceptions, justice for them has been a fleeting mystery. The law is working against them. District attorneys are working against them. Bigotry and the undeserved esteem of law enforcement over everyday citizens is working against them. And yet, each new family whose loved one is mowed down in a hail…

Updated at 4:20 p.m. ET A judge has ruled in favor of Harvard University in a high-profile court case centered on Harvard’s consideration of race in admissions. Federal District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued her decision Tuesday, saying that “Harvard’s admission program passes constitutional muster” and that “ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race conscious admissions.” The plaintiff, advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), has accused…

The video of the shooting was filmed by a reporter from Campus TV, a student-run television station at the University of Hong Kong, and provided to The New York Times by another reporter at the station. The Hong Kong police have fired hundreds of rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and beanbag rounds to disperse street demonstrations since the protests began in June. On a few occasions, officers have fired…

The US attorney general met UK intelligence agencies in the summer to discuss Britain potentially cooperating with Donald Trump’s administration on an inquiry examining the FBI’s investigation into alleged collusion with Russia, according to sources. William Barr met British intelligence officials in London on 29 July at a meeting attended by intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes group. He was accompanied by the US homeland security department’s acting deputy secretary,…

CLOSE The White House said President Trump’s outreach on William Barr’s behalf was a legitimate effort to assist the inquiry into the Mueller investigation. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., criticized Republicans and said President Donald Trump needed to be “imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement” because “impeachment is not good enough for Trump.” Waters, who chairs the House Financial Services…

A jury has found former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder after less than 24 hours of deliberation. Guyger was indicted last year after fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his apartment, which she said she mistook as hers.  Jurors were given the option of finding Guyger guilty of the lesser offense of manslaughter. With the murder conviction, Guyger, 31, now faces up to life in prison. The verdict follows a case that has…

Pompeo’s letter came as Trump, during a spate of morning tweets, questioned why he is not “entitled to interview & learn everything about” a whistleblower whose identity is protected by federal statute. Trump also again insisted that his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “PERFECT,” dismissing concerns at the core of the whistleblower’s complaint that Trump pressed for an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden and his…

Our correspondent describes when his father saw Mao. The first and only time my father saw Mao Zedong in person was in the October 1 parade of 1950, on the first anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic In the fall of 1950, there were not many students in Beijing, and the call to attend the parade went out to all the universities. My father had started classes a…

The inspector general who oversees the nation’s intelligence groups defended its handling of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, stating on Monday that the whistleblower submitted the proper form and reiterating the complaint was urgent and credible. “The whistleblower submitted the appropriate Disclosure of Urgent Concern form that was in effect as of August 12, 2019, and had been used by the ICIG since May 24, 2018,” the inspector general’s office wrote….

Simon Denyer Min Joo Kim October 1 at 11:55 AM TOKYO — North Korea and the United States will resume negotiations Saturday, marking the first official talks between the two sides since President Trump met Kim Jong Un in June, the North Korean government announced Tuesday. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus later told reporters that officials from the two countries plan to meet “within the next week.” North Korean Vice Foreign…

The semiautonomous Chinese city tried to hold muted parallel celebrations with Beijing right after daybreak on Tuesday, but the flag-raising ceremony was under such threat that no one could not be outside to watch it. As the fire-red Chinese flag was hoisted accompanied by the rousing national anthem, officials watched from inside a sprawling convention center. By midday people were carrying Chinese flags with its stars rearranged into swastikas, and…