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Wealthy Republican donors are planning to attend the first 2024 GOP debate in style, traveling by private jet and staying at luxurious hotels.

Donors at the Sept. 7 Bedminster event are being asked to each give $100,000 to the Giuliani Defense PAC.

In one case, a street gang used money from an unemployment fraud scheme to solicit murder for hire and purchase firearms and drugs, law enforcement said.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said law enforcement plans to release a verified list of people who are unaccounted for in the coming days.

Giorgia Meloni was elected in October and, as well as being the country's first female PM, is also the first from a far-right party since the end of World War II.

At least 115 people died in the fires and more than 800 people were still missing as of Monday local time, according to Maui County officials.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to over a dozen online retailers for details on compliance with consumer product safety standards.

The president's initial response to the devastating wildfires drew criticism from Republicans, who argued that he should have spoken about it more often.

Trump "overstates" volume of evidence in the case and "exaggerates the challenge of reviewing it effectively," special counsel Jack Smith wrote.

Eastman's charges in Georgia relate to his alleged post-election efforts to use fake slates of Trump electors to challenge President Joe Biden's win in 2020.

Los Angeles was hit with flooding from record rainfall as the first tropical storm to hit California since 1939 made landfall over the weekend.

The Des Moines Register/NBC News poll comes days ahead of the first Republican primary debate and as Trump prepares to surrender in Georgia this week.

Rep. Mike Gallagher, who chairs the House Select Committee on the CCP, said the executive order should account for public market investments.

DeSantis recently told CNBC that he has "moved on" from the feud with Disney, which stemmed from a clash over the bill dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by critics.

Hawaiian Electric is facing four lawsuits from Maui residents alleging that the power company's power lines played a role in the fires.

Carroll, 79, first sued then-president Trump in 2019, and the case has been delayed several times already.

Andaya was asked Wednesday whether he regretted not activating emergency sirens as wildfires spread across West Maui: "I do not," he said at press conference

The president is hoping to smooth over a historically icy relationship between the two neighbors in order to bolster military cooperation in the region.

The decision to hire an outside investigator comes as questions mount over whether emergency officials did enough to warn residents in Maui about the wildfires.

Three of the actors are operatives with the Russian Federal Security Service Criminalistics Institute.