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On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that his office has “about 20 to 30 people” that they’re trying to get out of Afghanistan and had a family that was turned away at the gate of the airport despite being told by the State Department to head to the airport. Krishnamoorthi also stated that it’s “almost impossible to get to the airport right now.” And the U.S. shouldn’t follow any “artificial deadlines” for leaving Afghanistan. Krishnamoorthi began by saying, “I’m very happy to learn that the number of people being evacuated has increased rapidly...

House Republicans grilled former FBI lawyer Lisa Page behind closed doors on Monday as they sought to make the case that bias influenced the bureau’s investigations of President Trump and Hillary Clinton. It was the second day of a grueling interview for Page, whose emails and text messages with FBI agent Peter Strzok have been cited by GOP lawmakers as suggesting the FBI was biased against the Republican presidential candidate. Lawmakers from the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees remained mostly tight-lipped on the details of her testimony, though multiple Republicans praised her as cooperative and forthcoming....

President Barack Obama's former Indian-American campaign adviser Raja Krishnamoorthi will be running for the post of Illinois Comptroller, the State's chief fiscal officer, in the 2010 elections. Mr. Krishnamoorthi said he will "fight to restore trust in state government and bring more transparency and accountability" at a time when the State has been plagued with scandals like digging and selling of grave sites at the Burr Oak cemetery and admission irregularities at the University of Illinois. "As so often happens in our capital Springfield, the special interests have won and our state government is broken.It is time to fix it....