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Former President Donald Trump claimed this week that he had the authority to declassify documents just by thinking about it. While presidents have broad authority to declassify material, but there is a detailed process unlike what Trump described. Here’s a look at how declassification works.

What would usually be a quiet confirmation hearing for a new archivist took on a higher political profile because of the agency’s role in the investigation into the former president’s handling of sensitive documents.

Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, is set to have a detention hearing Friday at noon.

The woman arrested by the FBI in connection with a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital was released on conditions after a detention hearing on Friday. U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins identified the woman as Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, who is charged with one count of making a false telephonic bomb threat, in connection with a threat made...

Authorities investigating an explosion Tuesday at Northeastern University are looking into the possibility that the worker who was hurt staged the incident.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that three Iranian citizens have been charged in the United States with cyberattacks that targeted power companies, local governments and small businesses and nonprofits, including a domestic violence shelter. The charges accuse the hacking suspects of targeting hundreds of victims in the U.S. and other countries. Prosecutors said the hackers encrypted and stole data...

The three accused hackers are thought to be in Iran and have not been arrested, but the Justice Department says the charges make it “functionally impossible” for them to leave the country.

Northeastern University’s Boston campus was rife with curiosity and concern after a package delivered to one of the university’s buildings exploded Tuesday night. The incident — which law enforcement sources have told the NBC10 Boston Investigators may have been a hoax — sparked a multi-agency response and investigation, as well as evening class cancelations, evacuations and other nearby universities being…

On his podcast, the Donald Trump supporter who continues to promote false claims of 2020 election fraud said agents questioned him about Dominion Voting Systems, Colorado’s Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and his connection to Doug Frank, an Ohio educator who claims voting machines have been manipulated.

A staff member was sent to the hospital with minor injuries, after opening a package that exploded Tuesday night.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a judge on Monday to continue preventing the Justice Department from reviewing classified documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon...
temporarily blocked the DOJ last week from using records seized when the FBI searched Trump’s home on Aug. 8 until a special master is able to review them. The DOJ has challenged the...

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and former top FBI officials, rejecting the former president’s claims that they and others acted in concert to concoct the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his administration. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said in a sharply worded ruling on Thursday that Trump’s lawsuit,...

The Justice Department said Thursday that it was appealing a judge’s decision granting the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.

Along with highly classified government documents, FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found dozens of folders marked classified but with nothing inside and no explanation of what might have been there. They also recovered more than 10,000 government records with no classification marked. That’s according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material...

The Justice Department said Tuesday that classified documents were “likely concealed and removed” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the discovery of the government records.

efore declining to comment on the release of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, President Joe Biden took a jab at his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who has asserted his stores of classified materials were actually declassified. “I just want you to know, I’ve declassified everything in the world. I can do it, I’m president,” Biden joked. “Come on.”

A judge released a redacted affidavit Friday, outlining the Justice Department’s probable cause for the Aug. 8 search of former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department released a partially blacked out document explaining the justification for an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month, when agents removed top secret government records and other classified documents.

A redacted version of the search warrant affidavit for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate will be unsealed Friday under a judge’s order. The Justice Department submitted its proposed redactions to the document on Thursday, prompting the judge to agree to unseal the document as submitted by DOJ on Friday by noon. The search warrant affidavit had led U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce...

Five Florida men affiliated with a militia group called “B Squad” have been arrested on charges that they joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, disrupting Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory, federal authorities said Wednesday. “B Squad” members stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while wearing riot gear and armed with metal batons, knives,...