Washington lawmakers are in a race against the clock to keep their state from becoming the second in the nation to decriminalize possession of hard drugs. Gov. Jay Inslee is calling lawmakers back for a special session Tuesday after the legislature failed to reach an agreement on a new drug law during the regular session.

Senators on Tuesday will grill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the “perils and promise” of artificial intelligence as part of a push to better understand this quickly emerging technology and impose some kind of regulatory regime around it. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, which will mark his first time as a witness at a public congressional hearing.

A new super PAC formed to support former Vice President Mike Pence’s all-but-certain 2024 White House campaign launched on Tuesday, with a mission to “reintroduce” the former vice president “as his own man.” And the establishment of the super PAC, titled Committed to America, is the clearest signal to date that Pence is likely just a couple of weeks away from declaring his candidacy for president and jumping into an increasingly crowded GOP nomination race.

The White House on Monday released financial disclosure forms for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris covering 2022.  The disclosures, obtained by Fox News Digital, show little change from the previous year in their respective earnings. It showed that Biden earned less than $201 in royalties for his 2007 memoir “Promises to Keep” and between $2,501 and $5,000 for his 2017 memoir “Promise Me, Dad.

The IRS has removed the “entire investigative team” from its multi-year tax fraud investigation of Hunter Biden, and a whistleblower who raised concerns about the handling of the case is claiming the move was “clearly retaliatory,” according to a Monday report.  Per The New York Post, the whistleblower’s attorneys told Congress that the removal was on the order of the Department of Justice.