Former President Donald Trump will attend a major hearing in New York Thursday on charges he falsified business records to hide hush-money payments to a porn star, capping a pivotal week in his campaign-year legal woes.

The Chinese Communist Party "successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise" then-Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House through a lucrative business deal with Biden family members, a former top associate of the family told lawmakers Tuesday.

Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas shot back at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after he criticized the lawmaker's support of the foreign aid bill that the Senate passed early Tuesday.

The White House on Tuesday defended President Biden's hastily called press conference last week to rebut claims in special counsel Robert Hur's report that the president's memory is so poor he couldn't be prosecuted for willfully retaining classified documents.