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Merrick Garland says DOJ filed motion to unseal Trump Mar-a-Lago warrant and property receipt

By Tierney Sneed, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Zachary Cohen, CNN In his first public statement since federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday said that the Justice Department had filed in court a request that the search warrant and property receipt from

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Political campaign emails can bypass Google’s spam filters under a newly approved pilot project

By Fredreka Schouten Federal election regulators voted Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a plan to make it easier for campaign emails to bypass spam filters. Google’s proposal to run a pilot project changing the filters for political emails came after intense Republican criticism that spam filters were biased against conservatives, a charge the

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At least 12 Republican nominees for state elections chief have disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 election

By Daniel Dale, CNN In at least 12 states, the Republican nominee for the job of overseeing future elections is someone who has questioned, rejected or tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Secretaries of state will play a critical role in managing and certifying the presidential election in 2024. The distinct possibility

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Biden to stay ‘laser focused’ on legislative accomplishments amid Trump investigations

By Jeremy Diamond and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden doesn’t plan to allow the investigations into his predecessor to muddy his efforts to tout a recent string of legislative achievements ahead of the midterm elections. Even as federal and state investigations into former President Donald Trump heat up and dominate headlines, senior administration officials

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Law enforcement association warns agents of criminal exposure after Secret Service shares personal cell phone numbers with investigators

By Whitney Wild and Jamie Gangel, CNN The professional association that advocates for federal law enforcement agents warned members of the US Secret Service Tuesday that their personal phone numbers the agency recently released “will likely be used” in a criminal investigation, according to a copy of a letter sent to agents and obtained by

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US Justice Department charges Iranian with trying to assassinate John Bolton

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Marshall Cohen, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US Justice Department announced criminal charges Wednesday against a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations. The alleged plot was

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Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn’t changed the silence from the top. Attorney General Merrick Garland has tightly limited the Justice Department’s public

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