Republicans immediately began lashing out at President Biden Thursday following the release of an unclassified FBI document detailing his alleged involvement in an international bribery scheme, with a number rallying for his impeachment. Sen.

The first auction of offshore leases for wind power development in the Gulf of Mexico will take place Aug. 29 for tracts off the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The Department of the Interior said the lease sale will involve more than 300,000 acres. That includes a 102,480-acre area off the southwest Louisiana coast, and areas covering 102,480 acres and 96,786 acres off Galveston, Texas.

Dozens of Senate Democrats are calling for the Biden administration to extend deportation protections for nationals from Venezuela and Nicaragua, part of a push to expand the use of the authority to even more people. In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 26 Democrats call for the redesignation of Venezuela and Nicaragua for Temporary Protected Status.

A prominent Democrat and Jewish leader who served for decades as a New York lawmaker and now leads a group committed to fighting antisemitism announced Thursday he’s leaving his lifelong political party and becoming a Republican, arguing Democrats have become “radicalized” and “turned their back” on the Jewish people.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday said that the Chinese communist regime “bears responsibility” for helping tackle the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. – pointing to areas in which China can assist the U.S. in stopping the drug getting into the country. Mayorkas was asked at the Aspen Security Forum about whether China bears some responsibility for the U.S. fentanyl crisis, given that the precursor chemicals originate there.