California Rep. ousted from post in scandal

Rep. Duncan Hunter, RCalif., indicted on charges of using hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses, has been stripped of his committee assignments by the House speaker and urged to resign by the chamber’s top Democrat.

Mr.Hunter, 41, faced the swift, bipartisan rebuke after federal prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled criminal charges against both him and hiswife, Margaret, 43. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California, which filed the charges, said the Hunters improperly accessed more than $250,000 incampaign money.

According to the indictment, campaign funds were used to pay for personal expenses like family vacations, school tuition and dental work, as well as smaller purchases including fast food and movie tickets. Mr. Hunter, a fiveterm congressman who represents the San Diego area, also is accused of filing false campaign records with the U.S. Federal Election Commission.

Trump Foundation probe

Investigators in New York issued a subpoena to Michael D. Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former fixer and lawyer, for documents related to the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Wednesday, an escalation of the Cuomo administration’s probe into whether the president’s charity violated tax laws.

After receiving the subpoena, Mr. Cohen called the investigators in the state Tax Department to ask when they could talk, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.

The subpoena was issued less than a day after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Manhattan to charges including campaign finance violations, in the form of payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, for the “purpose of influencing the election” for president in 2016.

Attempt to hack DNC

CHICAGO — An attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee’s massive voter database has been thwarted, a party official said Wednesday, two years after Russian operatives sent the party into disarray by hacking into its computers and facilitating the release of tens of thousands of emails amid the presidential election.

A web security firm using artificial intelligence uncovered the attempt. The DNC was notified Tuesday, it said. Hackers had created a fake login page to gather usernames and passwords in an effort to gain access to the Democratic Party’s voter file, a party official said. The file contains information on tens of millions of voters. The attempt was quickly thwarted by suspending the attacker’s account, and no information was compromised, the official said. The FBI was notified.

Government and tech officials say it’s too early to know who was behind the attempt.

Cemetery bomb threat

Arlington National Cemetery was evacuated Wednesday morning after a bomb threat to the northern Virginia site, and officials closed it for the rest of the day.

Cemetery officials said that emergency services had responded and that visitors and employees were evacuated safely from public areas and buildings.

Barbara Lewandrowski, a spokeswoman for the cemetery, said the facilities and grounds were evacuated about 9:30 a.m. She said there were no reports of injuries and everyone was evacuated safely.

The threat remains under investigation.