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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky is denying it was a partisan decision to compel Bill and Hillary Clinton to testify in the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Comer's committee is deposing the Clintons in their hometown in New York.

Bill Clinton is scheduled to be questioned later today.

During her testimony yesterday, Hillary Clinton said she told the panel that she has no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and does not recall ever meeting him.

President Trump's scheduled to head to Texas today, his first trip following his State of the Union address.

He comes ahead of Tuesday's Senate primary election.

Republican Senator John Cornyn is seeking a fifth term.

He's being challenged for the nomination by State Attorney General Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt.

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and Iran have wrapped up the latest round of nuclear talks with a plan to hold further discussions next week.

NPR's Greg Myrie reports that this comes with a large U.S.

military force now positioned for a possible military strike against Iran.

Pakistan's defense minister says his country is now in open war with Afghanistan.

The comments on social media come after Pakistan launched airstrikes on multiple locations in Afghanistan overnight.

In an escalation of a long-running border dispute, Betsy Joles has more from Islamabad.

And a result indicative of a widening gap in British politics, a governing Labour Party has lost a parliamentary by-election in a former stronghold in northwest England.

The vote was won by Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer, with the right-wing Reform UK pushing Labour into third place.

Here's the BBC's Rob Watson reporting.

The BBC's Rob Watson reporting.