Presidents can declassify documents “even by thinking about it,” former President Trump claimed in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Wednesday night. The ex-president has insisted the scores of documents with classification markers the FBI discovered at Mar-a-Lago were actually declassified. But Trump’s attorneys have resisted a …
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Nearly a year after the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal crossed the finish line, states may begin applying for the $1 billion pot of cybersecurity funds written into law and designed to tackle increasing vulnerabilities across U.S. critical infrastructure. Friday’s official rollout of the “State and Local Cybersecurity Grant …
Read More »Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg estimates he’s taken on about “half a dozen” of the nation’s most difficult tasks as special master over the years. He oversaw the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund during former President George W. Bush’s administration. He administered a similar fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon spill …
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Wilkes-Barre, PA — In a speech that lasted nearly two hours on Saturday night in northeastern Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump decried the FBI search at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as “one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration,” and compared his treatment to that in a …
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent a memo last week to all NARA employees to update them on the status of former President Donald Trump’s presidential records and clarified the Archives’ role in the probe so far. She also sought to encourage the staff …
Read More »For the third time, a candidate backed by former president Donald Trump squares off against one backed by former Vice President Mike Pence, this time, in Wisconsin. And Vermont may be on its way to a history-making moment, as four states hold primaries Tuesday: Wisconsin, Connecticut, Vermont and Minnesota. Here …
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The House this week is expected to pass a bill that would restore the right to an abortion previously protected by Roe, although the bill is bound to die in the Senate. The Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 is an updated version of a bill the House passed in …
Read More »Gayle Manchin had some questions when a woman commented in a recent speech that those who speak with a twang or drawl face some assumptions about their intellect. She said that “people would automatically not think you were smart,” recalled Manchin, who is married to Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. “I …
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Former Top Trump aide Jason Miller says the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol cut off video testimony from him that would have gone on to say then-President Trump disagreed with post-election analysis from his top data analyst that he would lose. Committee Vice Chair Liz …
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Admiral Linda L. Fagan shattered the military’s glass ceiling on Wednesday to become commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and the first female officer to lead a branch of the U.S. armed forces. Previously the service’s second-in-command, Fagan has worn the Coast Guard uniform for more than four decades and …
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