Jamaican authorities have agreed to extradite convicted scammers who prey on American seniors following a Senate probe, the U.S. ambassador to Kingston said.

The promise follows a hearing by the Senate's aging panel last month into scams that fool seniors into handing over money in exchange for a bigger pay-off in the form of fictitious lottery winnings. The scam has hit the home states of chairman Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and ranking member Susan Collins (R-Maine) particularly hard.

The Jamaican Senate passed legislation shortly after the hearing to prosecute the scammers, who fleece American seniors of an estimated $1 billion a year. The United States is Jamaica's biggest trade partner and its main source of tourists, making good relations between the two countries crucial.

Rep. Wolf renewed his call for a select committee on Benghazi following a report blaming former Secretary of State Clinton.

House lawmakers will investigate Islamist extremism in Chechnya in the wake of last week's Boston bombings, which are believed to be the work of two ethnic Chechen suspects.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee's subpanels on Europe and Terrorism will hold a joint hearing at 10:30 a.m. Friday, The Hill has learned.

The FBI interviewed the parents of the Boston bombing suspects in the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Tuesday with the help of Russian authorities.

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow sent a group that included representatives of the FBI to the Muslim-majority region near Chechnya, Agence France-Presse reported.

The interviews took place at the local headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, according to the wire service.

The two suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are ethnic Chechens. Chechnya, which was incorporated into Russia 200 years ago, has fought two wars with Moscow since the end of the Cold War.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday addressed the House in Armenian to mark the 98th anniversary of Genocide Memorial Day, a day that marks the victims of Armenian Genocide from 1915 to 1923.

"I speak to you from the floor of the House of Representatives in the language of your grandparents and your great grandparents — the language they used to speak of their hopes, their dreams, their lives and their loves in the years before 1915," Schiff said in Armenian.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew faced a skeptical Congress on Wednesday as he defended President Obama's request for $2.9 billion to fund international affairs programs next year.

Lew testified that aid to multilateral financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are a “cost-effective” way to solidify the world financial system, promote U.S. national security and boost U.S. exports. Lawmakers however raised doubts after the IMF bailed out five European countries – Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Cyprus – over the past few years.

“Mr. Secretary, the IMF is controversial within the Congress,” House foreign operations appropriations chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) said in prepared remarks. “It was not created to bail out industrialized nations that cannot control their spending. 

Secretary of State John Kerry opened talks with top Afghan and Pakistani leaders on Wednesday, looking to restart stalled peace talks between the two nations and the Taliban. 

The new hearings were announced Wednesday by House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).

The report blames the former secretary of State for approving lax security measures and accuses her of a cover-up.