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On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that it’s time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be willing to give ground in talks with Hamas and that if a deal in Gaza is struck, “it will also shape the way in which Israel views the nature of its retaliation on Iran.” After Krishnamoorthi stated that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar increases the likelihood of a hostage deal because Sinwar changed his demands in negotiations, Host Jim Sciutto asked, “[T]here were also times in the negotiations when U.S. negotiators felt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was...

A top FBI official who oversees the bureau's counterintelligence division faced questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about the role of FBI agent Peter Strzok in federal probes, The Hill has learned. Lawmakers and congressional staff questioned Bill Priestap behind closed-doors for several hours as part of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees' joint probe into the FBI's decision-making during the 2016 election. Republicans have been eager to talk to Priestap about his involvement with the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as well as its probe into Hillary Clinton's use of...

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....