Hamas released 16 more hostages late Wednesday in the last swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel under the current Gaza truce.

House Republicans are considering a formal vote on  their impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. There are reports that  Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) told members in a closed-door meeting Wednesday they could vote in the coming weeks on a move that could strengthen  the investigation’s legal standing.

Americans' confidence in the U.S. presidency has hit its lowest point ever under President Joe Biden's administration, the annual Reagan National Defense Survey has found.

More news on the Hunter Biden investigation. A bank investigator responsible for detecting and combating money laundering warned in 2018 of "unusual" and "erratic" activity related to more than a dozen wire transfers of large sums of money to accounts belonging to Hunter Biden. Evidently the senior leadership at the banks....ignored the warning.

With election year 2024 just around the corner....according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)......Cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86, also known as Pirola, have tripled in two weeks causing the CDC to recommend.....Outside of vaccines, that high-risk groups adopt risk-mitigating behaviors,...... including wearing masks, frequently washing hands and avoiding crowded environments.