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Comer widens Biden ‘cover-up’ probe, seeks interviews with Anita Dunn and Ron Klain

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is widening his investigation into the alleged «cover-up» of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline by seeking interviews with five more former White House aides.
Comer sent letters to five more top former Biden staffers, putting his total outreach in the investigation to 10 people so far.
The latest round of letters are being sent to former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, former senior communications advisor Anita Dunn, former top advisors Michael Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Bruce Reed.
«The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating the role of former senior White House officials in possibly usurping authority from former President Joe Biden and the ramifications of a White House staff intent on hiding his rapidly worsening mental and physical faculties,» Comer wrote to the five former aides.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., right, is widening his probe into former President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File and Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«The Committee has been investigating this issue for nearly a year. The Committee seeks to understand who made key decisions and exercised the powers of the executive branch during the previous administration, possibly without former President Biden’s consent. The Committee requests your testimony to evaluate your eye-witness account of former President Biden’s decline.»
Each letter also detailed specific reasons the committee is seeking to speak to each person.
«You served as Chief of Staff for former President Biden. Before departing the White House in 2023, you had been by former President Biden’s side ‘for more than three decades.’ You returned to the former president’s side in 2024 to aid his campaign and prepare him for the June 27, 2024, debate with President Donald Trump,» the letter to Klain read, citing a recent Politico article.
«According to an interview, you cut short the debate prep ‘due to the president’s fatigue and lack of familiarity with the subject matter’ and said that the former president ‘didn’t really understand what his argument was on inflation.’ The scope of your responsibilities—both official and otherwise—and personal interactions within the Oval Office cannot go without investigation.»

Ron Klain, former White House chief of staff, is being contacted by Rep. James Comer. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
To Dunn, Comer wrote, «Former President Biden confided in you extensively over the past decade. The Committee seeks to understand your observations of former President Biden’s mental acuity and health as one of his closest advisors.
«If White House staff carried out a strategy lasting months or even years to hide the chief executive’s condition—or to perform his duties—Congress may need to consider a legislative response,» the letter said.
Comer has asked each of the five aides to appear for closed-door transcribed interviews.
He told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that it was a more effective investigation tactic than a public hearing that could easily devolve into an unproductive spectacle.
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Rep. James Comer also reached out to Anita Dunn.
«You’ve got one hour, you’re not interrupted, you don’t have to go five minutes back and forth,» Comer said. «So to extract information, we’re going to go with the interviews.»
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Comer previously reached out to former Biden doctor Kevin O’Connor and former White House aides Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams and Neera Tanden to appear.
The committee said it expects the witnesses to voluntarily comply with the investigation and will release transcribed interview dates later this week. Comer has not ruled out the threat of subpoenas, however, if talks go awry.
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‘Homeland would’ve been stolen’: AK Natives sound off on Biden energy bans as Trump officials tour tundra

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FIRST ON FOX: Alaska Natives and residents of the vast North Slope Borough communities along the Arctic Ocean got a rare chance this week to directly discuss their concerns with White House officials, typically 3,500 miles away in Washington.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin joined Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and local residents in Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) as part of a multi-day visit to the oil and gas fields, workers and neighbors in the frigid but crucial region.
Charles Lampe, a Native resident of Kaktovik – the main remote community within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) a few hundred miles eastward – said until President Donald Trump and the officials assembled in Utqiagvik took office, North Slope residents and their energy development hopes felt besieged by that same far-flung federal government.
Lampe voiced similar concerns to those Fox News Digital had been told in the past by Alaska officials, in that environmental activists in the Lower 48 and federal officials who ideologically align with them have tried speaking for them in opposition to developing ANWR and other sites where none of those same activists live.
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State and federal officials visit the North Slope Borough. (US Dept of Energy & US Dept of Interior)
«There’s one thing that I want to bring up – we were under attack in Kaktovik by environmental groups,» Lampe said.
«On Day 1, President Trump told the Fish and Wildlife Department to deny their requests. And that was such an amazing thing for us to be able to see. And we were so proud of our president then because he made sure that our ancestral homelands weren’t going to be stolen – and [instead] protected,» Lampe said, as many in the North Slope actually support the development of their Native homelands versus cordoning them off through regulation – as they bring jobs and resources.
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«So I really need to bring back this immense gratitude to President Trump for that action and being able to write something that, if the other guy (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris) would have won, there’s no doubt in my mind that our homeland would have been stolen and there’s nothing we could have done about it,» he said.
«Trump had the heart and the wherewithal to be able to right this wrong.»
He told Burgum to invite Trump to Kaktovik to see ANWR and its «Section 1002» – the oil and gas development sector – for himself.
Burgum said he believes Trump would be open to the opportunity – and that the president has already pleasantly surprised regional corporate stakeholders with his openness to questions that the oil companies felt loath to even consider asking a president.
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«President Trump does care super deeply about this and at a deep level,» Burgum said, adding the president shocked ConocoPhillips representatives in a recent meeting when he asked what they needed to improve their North Slope operations.
When the company noted improved roads would be helpful, Trump asked rhetorically why a road couldn’t be built, according to Burgum.
«[They] were kind of like, ‘Wow, I didn’t know we could ask that.’»
Wright also addressed the Utqiagvik meeting, and added in separate comments that he visited the Prudhoe Bay Discovery Well – a 1960s operation that first opened Alaska to energy development and at one point represented one-quarter of U.S. oil output.
«Unfortunately, the last few decades have seen a long, slow decline of North Slope oil production – not because they’re running out of oil. In fact, there’s an amazing amount of untapped, unproduced oil up here. It’s because of federal regulation, bureaucracy. It’s made it so expensive and difficult to operate,» Wright said.
He added that with the «Big, Beautiful, Twin Natural Gas Pipeline» ultimately constructed, Alaska could be the key to global energy security by drawing buyers in Korea and Japan away from China.
«It’s great to be part of history again here in the great North Slope oil fields of Alaska,» Wright said.
Dunleavy last week headlined a global sustainable energy conference in Anchorage, which also drew the attention of those same potential stakeholders from Asia.
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Temor entre los hinchas por posibles redadas migratorias durante el Mundial 2026

Manny Mizael cambió Brasil por Boston hace 27 años, pero su pasión por un equipo de fútbol a casi 8000 kilómetros de distancia, en Río de Janeiro, arde con más fuerza que nunca.
Tanto es así que Mizael ayuda a dirigir un club de aficionados en Massachusetts para el equipo, el Flamengo, uno de los más populares de Brasil. Su grupo organiza regularmente proyecciones de partidos que atraen a cientos de seguidores.
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Pero este año, los grupos de WhatsApp de los aficionados empezaron a encenderse con charlas sobre la represión de la inmigración por parte del gobierno del presidente Donald Trump casi tanto como sobre las victorias más recientes del Flamengo. Los temores eran tan intensos que el grupo suspendió una fiesta para ver un partido en febrero, dijo Mizael, por temor a convertirse en el objetivo de una redada de inmigración. Muchos de los seguidores no son originarios de Estados Unidos y carecen de estatus legal.
“Están agarrando a la gente en la calle y deteniéndola”, dijo Mizael. “Decidimos no hacer el partido porque pensamos que podría arruinar la vida de mucha gente”.
Las políticas de Trump y el fútbol
La cancelación fue un adelanto de cómo las políticas de inmigración del presidente Trump se perfilan para afectar al Mundial del próximo año, el acontecimiento deportivo más visto. Se espera que atraiga a unos 6,5 millones de personas, muchos a Estados Unidos, donde se disputarán la mayoría de los partidos. (Canadá y México son coanfitriones del torneo). Los aficionados suelen hacer todo lo posible para viajar una vez en la vida a la Copa, y gastan años de ahorros o posponen compras importantes, como vivienda, para pagar el viaje.
Donald Trump y Gianni Infantino en la Casa Blanca. Washington, D.C., 6 de mayo de 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
Para algunos, la posibilidad de ese viaje ya podría estar condenada. Los tiempos de espera para obtener una visa para varios países —entre ellos Colombia, cuyos seguidores suelen asistir en gran cantidad a los Mundiales— se extienden más allá del torneo del próximo verano. Irán, el primer equipo de Asia clasificado para el Mundial, está en la lista de 12 países a los que Trump prohibió la entrada. Hizo una excepción para los atletas y el personal de la Copa y otros acontecimientos deportivos, pero no para los hinchas.
En los últimos torneos celebrados en Rusia y Qatar, los países anfitriones y la FIFA acordaron un programa de exención de visados para la mayoría de las personas que tuvieran entradas. No se ha establecido nada similar para el próximo verano.
Las duras políticas de inmigración del gobierno de Trump también han afectado a la contratación de personal para la Copa, según dos personas con conocimiento directo del asunto. La FIFA suele emplear a contratistas con experiencia en grandes acontecimientos complejos, como los Juegos Olímpicos, para que ayuden a organizar el torneo. Para la Copa de 2026, ese proceso ha resultado más difícil de lo habitual, incluso el gobierno ha rechazado algunas solicitudes de visado y ha preguntado por qué la FIFA no puede contratar a estadounidenses para el trabajo, según un funcionario del fútbol informado sobre la planificación.
Un portavoz de la FIFA negó que el proceso para obtener visas de trabajo hubiera sido difícil y señaló que la organización contaba con una plantilla de 800 personas en Miami y tenía previsto enviar personal de Europa para ayudar. El portavoz declinó hacer comentarios sobre la posibilidad de que se impidiera a los aficionados de determinados países asistir a la Copa Mundial o sobre los esfuerzos que estaba realizando la FIFA para garantizar que quienes tengan entradas pudieran asistir.
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional tampoco quiso hacer comentarios.
La FIFA, EE.UU. y el Mundial de Clubes
La FIFA también está organizando un torneo de mil millones de dólares y un mes de duración, que comenzará la semana que viene, llamado Mundial de Clubes, que llevará a Estados Unidos a 32 equipos de clubes, entre ellos el Flamengo. El torneo, el primero de este tipo, es un precursor de la Copa Mundial del próximo verano.
Para el grupo de Mizael, los acontecimientos relacionados con la inmigración han estropeado los planes de lo que habría sido un festival de fútbol en las próximas semanas.
Se descartaron las fiestas para ver los partidos, así como las conversaciones sobre viajar en grupo a partidos en Filadelfia y Orlando, por temor a que un autobús de migrantes se convirtiera en objetivo. “Eso es algo que no podemos tener en nuestra conciencia”, dijo Mizael.
Quedan miles de asientos sin vender para el torneo de clubes, y los funcionarios de la FIFA atribuyen al menos parte de la escasez a la preocupación de los aficionados por la situación de sus visados, según el funcionario de fútbol y otro funcionario.
Las ventas han sido tan escasas que la FIFA ha bajado los precios en repetidas ocasiones. Los precios en las plataformas de reventa están bajando para el partido inaugural, en el que juega el Inter de Miami, un equipo que agotó las entradas en los estadios de todo el país el año pasado, cuando Lionel Messi se incorporó a su plantilla. Otros factores de la aparente falta de interés son la ausencia de algunos de los equipos más importantes de Europa, los precios iniciales de las entradas y la incertidumbre sobre un nuevo torneo.
El vocero de la FIFA negó que la venta de entradas fuera “baja” para los aficionados radicados en Estados Unidos, pero no facilitó cifras totales de ventas. Dijo que habían comprado entradas aficionados de más de 130 países.
La Casa Blanca ha mostrado un gran interés por la Copa del año que viene. Trump creó un grupo de trabajo que él mismo preside, y el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, apareció en el Despacho Oval, donde el enorme trofeo dorado del torneo de clubes estuvo expuesto durante semanas.
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En una reunión del grupo de trabajo celebrada el mes pasado, el vicepresidente JD Vance dijo que los aficionados podían esperar una “experiencia sin contratiempos” al visitar Estados Unidos y anticipó la llegada de visitantes de unos 100 países.
Sin embargo, también les advirtió de que no se quedaran más tiempo de la cuenta. “Cuando se acabe el tiempo”, dijo, “tendrán que volver a casa”.
(*) Tariq Panja es corresponsal deportivo mundial y se centra en historias en las que el dinero, la geopolítica y el crimen se cruzan con el mundo del deporte.
Mundial 2026, Migraciones, deportación
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Russia launches biggest drone barrage of the Ukraine war, Kyiv says

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Nearly 500 drones and 20 missiles of various types were launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight, marking the biggest barrage of the war, Kyiv said.
On Monday, Ukraine’s air force said its air defenses were able to destroy 277 of the 479 drones launched in the darkness and 19 missiles mid-flight. Kyiv claims only 10 drones of missiles hit their target and just one person was injured.
The bombardment targeted mainly central and western areas of Ukraine, they said.
Russia’s aerial attacks usually start late in the evening and end in the morning, as drones are harder to spot in the dark.
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Explosion is seen after Russian air strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, June 6, 2025. (Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russia has targeted civilian areas of Ukraine with Shahed drones during the war. The attacks have killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations. Russia says it targets only military targets.
Despite the attack, the Kremlin said on Monday that Russia was still ready to honor agreements with Ukraine on a new prisoner of war exchange and on the repatriation of dead soldiers, despite what it said was Kyiv’s failure to so far honor its side of the bargain.
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An apartment block in the Solomianskyi district is damaged by an overnight Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 6, 2025.
«We have seen and heard a hundred different excuses, justifications and so on, but it is difficult to view them as credible,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Reuters. «The Russian side remains ready to implement the agreements reached in Istanbul.»
The exchanges were agreed to during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on June 2 and are meant to see a new prisoner of war swap of at least 1,200 people – focusing on the youngest and most severely wounded – as well as the repatriation of thousands of bodies of those killed in the war.

A Ukrainian doctor treats a soldier injured by shrapnel from Russian explosive drones at a medical stabilisation centre of the 3rd Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, in an undisclosed location near Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (FLORENT VERGNES/AFP)
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The return of prisoners of war and the return of the bodies of the dead is one of the few things the two sides have been able to agree on, even as their broader negotiations have failed to get close to ending the war, now in its fourth year.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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