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Valerie Yurk

Reporter · US

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Aug 17, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Valerie Yurk

    Ethics Committee announces inquiry into California Rep. Jimmy Gomez (opens the original)

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    The House Ethics Committee announced Monday it is investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations, including “inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.” The California Democrat has been facing public allegations of misconduct for months, with the New York Post reporting in April that he was spotted in 2023 kissing a staffer who worked for another member of Congress. The committee, in its announcement, said the investigation “does not itself indicate that any violation

  2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Valerie Yurk

    The data centers are coming. Is Congress ready? (opens the original)

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    TUCKER COUNTY, W.Va. — Tucked in a deep-red district in West Virginia, two tiny tourist towns rest high up in the Allegheny Mountains along the Blackwater River, nestled alongside grand waterfalls, winding hollows and scenic overlooks. And soon, 10,000 acres between the towns of Thomas and Davis and spanning into neighboring Grant County could become home to one of the “largest data center campuses in the world,” its developers told The Wall Street Journal, including a new natural gas power plan

  3. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Valerie Yurk

    Blanche’s AG nomination moves ahead after delay (opens the original)

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday favorably reported Todd Blanche’s bid to be attorney general after some Republican senators delayed the vote over the Trump administration’s controversial “weaponization” fund. Key GOP holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted in favor of advancing Blanche’s nomination after striking a deal to “rescind” the $1.8 billion compensation fund and rein in other aspects of the Internal Revenue Service settlement that

  4. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Valerie Yurk

    Blanche bid to move ahead with weaponization fund ‘dead’ (opens the original)

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    Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters about acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as he boards an elevator in the Capitol on Thursday.

  5. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Valerie Yurk and Savannah Behrmann

    Cornyn won’t ‘cave’ on Blanche, he says (opens the original)

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    The odds of the Senate confirming Todd Blanche to head the Justice Department before its summer break appear to be dwindling, as the Trump administration struggles to appease GOP holdouts. And if senators can’t get him through, President Donald Trump threatened to merely wait out the objectors, leaving Blanche in the post as acting attorney general and then trying again once Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, whose terms expire Jan. 3, are no longer in the picture. “I

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