United States Politics and Government
White House Says It Does Not Keep Visitor Logs at Biden’s Delaware Home
WASHINGTON — White House officials said on Monday that there are no visitor logs that keep track of who comes and goes from President Biden’s personal residence in Wilmington, Del., where six classified documents were discovered in recent days. A top House Republican demanded on Sunday that the White House turn over visitor logs for […]
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A Florida School Received a Threat. Did a Red Flag Law Prevent a Shooting?
The requests were granted. But the results of the search were not what the detective expected. Memories of Parkland Nationally, more than 20,000 petitions for extreme risk protection orders were filed from 1999 to 2021, according to data collected by Everytown for Gun Safety, an advocacy group. A vast majority of those petitions — more […]
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A Colossal Off-Year Election in Wisconsin
Lauren Justice for The New York Times Conservatives have controlled the court since 2008. Though the court upheld Wisconsin’s 2020 election results, last year it ruled drop boxes illegal, allowed a purge of the voter rolls to take place and installed redistricting maps drawn by Republican legislators despite the objections of Gov. Tony Evers, a […]
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A Year After a Fiery Voting Rights Speech, Biden Delivers a More Muted Address
Mr. Warnock, however, said in his victory speech that night that he won despite voter suppression. Stories of Georgia voters waiting for hours in long lines that wrapped around buildings, he said, were “most certainly not a sign voter suppression does not exist.” Early figures indicated that nationally the Black share of the electorate in […]
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Additional Documents Found at Biden’s Wilmington Home, White House Says
WASHINGTON — Five more pages containing classified information were found at President Biden’s Delaware home on Thursday, the White House said on Saturday, bringing the tally to six such pages uncovered this week. The additional pages, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, were discovered hours after a White House statement on Thursday […]
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Documents Inquiry Puts Spotlight on Biden’s Frenetic Last Days as Vice President
The Obama-Biden White House had established a regular process for handling secret papers and the White House Office of Records Management worked closely with the archives to ensure that files were transferred appropriately. Anything the president saw was archived. Classified papers would be returned and put in the National Security Council system or, if involving […]
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How Classified Information Is Handled
But for the most part, Mr. Gerstell said, “You can’t go to a government computer and push a button and say, ‘Print out a list of all classified documents.’ There is no system that does that.” Is the classification system enforced by criminal law? Not directly — for the most part. The legal basis for […]
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Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans
In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify anything problematic that an opponent might seize […]
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David Kessler, Leader of Biden’s Covid Vaccine Effort, Is Stepping Down
WASHINGTON — Dr. David A. Kessler, who for the past two years has been the behind-the-scenes force driving a vast federal effort to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccines and treatments, is leaving the Biden administration — another sign that the pandemic is no longer front and center for the White House. As chief science officer […]
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