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Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A longtime business partner of Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, said in a closed-door interview Tuesday with members of the House Oversight Committee that he is "not aware of any financial transactions or compensation" that then-Vice President Joe Biden received related to business conducted by this family members, calling the allegations "preposterous," according to Schwerins opening statement obtained by ABC News. Schwerin was called ...

Pawel.gaul/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Israeli Forces may have violated international law in the raid they conducted inside a hospital in the West Bank that resulted in the death of three Palestinian men both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed as members, several experts told ABC News. Israeli commandos disguised themselves as doctors and patients to infiltrate the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin on Monday and killed three Palestinian men whom Hamas and the Islamic Jihad both claimed as members, Dr. W...

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Washington, D.C., and Wall Street will closely watch an announcement from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday about whether to shift its benchmark interest rate. The move marks the first such decision since the Fed said last month that it expects to cut rates in 2024. Economists expect the Fed to leave rates unchanged, delaying rate cuts until later in the year. The next opportunity for a rate move will take place at a meeting in March. An aggressive s...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids. In a press release, Vertex says two studies showed that the new drug, VX-548, showed a "clinically meaningful reduction" in pain over a 48-hour period, compared to a placebo. The studies evaluated people who had recently undergone surgery and needed something to treat "ac...

Hulu, Silver Screen Collection/Getty ImagesElizabeth Taylors story will be told in a new documentary series. The project, which is being called Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, is being commissioned by BBC Arts and will be executive produced by Kim Kardashian, who will also star in the series. According to a press release, the series will be a three-part box set documentary series about the Academy Award-winning legendary actress. The series "gives Elizabeth Taylor the significance she ...

Hisham Ibrahim/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the tax filing season began Monday, the IRS Criminal Investigation division urged taxpayers to protect themselves from scams. Some of those scams include questionable refund schemes, return preparer fraud, abusive tax schemes, according to the agency. "Tax crimes surge during filing season because criminals steal unknowing taxpayers information, hack into the servers of CPA firms and tax preparation services and victimize unsuspecting taxpayers wi...

Law enforcement officials are shown at the scene where six bodies were found in San Bernadino County, Calif., on Jan. 24, 2024. (KABC-TV)(LOS ANGELES) -- Authorities say they have arrested five suspects after six people were found shot to death last week in a desert community in San Bernardino County, California. At a press conference Monday night, authorities said multiple search warrants were served on Sunday in the case. Five suspects, whom authorities identified as Toniel Baez-Duarte, Mateo ...

CT757fan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least four people are dead after a boat carrying over a dozen tourists sank in the waters off the coast of Cancun. The boat, which was traveling from Isla Mujeres to Puerto Juárez, caught a strong sea swell and the vessel began to sink as it took on water, ABC News has learned from officials close to the investigation. The boat was carrying 16 tourists and three crew members at the time of the accident, authorities said. At least four people have been confi...

SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is warning that several people may have recently been exposed to hepatitis A at a grocery store. An employee at a ShopRite, located in the northeast part of the city, was confirmed to have "acute hepatitis A" and was working behind the meat counter between Jan. 4 and Jan. 21 while possibly contagious, said officials. "The store is aware of the situation and is working ...

KeithBinns/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Iranian-backed militants killed three American service members and wounded more than two dozen others in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday, U.S. officials said, with President Joe Biden warning that the strike would be met with American retaliation. The deaths were the first in the line of fire for U.S. troops since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, sparked by Hamas terror attack. The U.S. has supported Israel against Hamas in Gaza but sought ...