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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.

A group of Iranian nationals were charged with hacking into hundreds of computers around the world, including here in the tri-state. Jonathan Dienst reports.

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.

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.

New York City’s former top cop was subpoenaed by the Justice Department last week as part of an investigation into Donald Trump and his associates, two people familiar with matter tell NBC News. Bernard Kerik received a subpoena last week, his attorney Timothy Parlatore, who said he also represents the former president, confirmed to News 4. Parlatore called the subpoena…

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.

FBI agents and the NYPD responded to a Bronx post office shortly before it opened Tuesday after a 56-year-old postal worker reported someone hit her in the head with a firearm and ordered her to open the building and a safe with about $100,000 in cash inside it, according to law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the case. The…

The FBI issued an alert asking police to be on the lookout for an alleged “anti-vaxxer” accused of blowing through a checkpoint at the Canadian border while voicing anger at the U.S. Open.

Dozens of folders seized by the FBI marked as classified were empty, leaving the question of where those documents actually are, Jonathan Dienst reports.

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.

A sprawling human trafficking investigation may have ensnared hundreds of women in Westchester County and parts of New York City, and investigators are asking potential victims to come forward now that they’ve arrested the alleged ringleader — a woman who may have used the business name “Chicas Express,” the FBI and local law enforcement partners announced Tuesday. According to an…

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.”

More than a dozen former NBA players have been charged in New York federal court in an alleged multi-million-dollar health insurance fraud scheme to rip off the league’s benefit plan, according to an indictment unsealed in the Southern District on Thursday.

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...