The Justice Department on Thursday moved to unseal a warrant authorizing a search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate this week following escalating demands for answers about the unprecedented investigation. "The public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing," Justice Department lawyers wrote in a court filing submitted Thursday afternoon. The move is a departure from the department's typical practice of staying silent about ongoing investigations, underscoring the significance of the first overt sign of an escalating criminal probe with a former president at the center. The filing coincided with a public statement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, his first since FBI agents executed the search warrant on Monday. Garland said he personally signed off on the decision to apply for and execute that search warrant, and that the decision was not made "lightly." The court filing on Thursday also cited Trump's own public comments as well as commentary from his legal team about the search as a reason for why it should be made public. Read more. |
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🧾 DOJ subpoenaed Trump months before Mar-a-Lago search: report
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The Justice Department subpoenaed former President Trump months before federal law enforcement executed a search warrant of his Mar-a-Lago estate this week, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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| 📊 Nearly half of voters in new poll approve of Mar-a-Lago search
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Almost half of voters approve of the FBI's execution of a search warrant at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, polling shows.
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🚨 Armed man tries to breach FBI office, is injured in standoff
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An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office Thursday, then fled and was injured in an exchange of gunfire in an hours-long standoff with law enforcement that persisted into late afternoon, authorities said.
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💰 Yellen tells IRS not to use new money for middle-class audits
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has directed IRS officials not to use new funding secured for the agency in Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act to increase audits on households making under $400,000 annually.
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🗽 Andrew Cuomo sues New York state over legal bills
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has filed a lawsuit against the state's attorney general alleging she improperly rejected his request for legal counsel in his sexual misconduct suit brought by a state trooper.
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🔥 DRIED UP: Lakes Mead, Powell at center of West's biggest drought |
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🚰 Newsom unveils new water strategy, to curb threat to state's supply |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has unveiled new water strategies, warning the state's supply could plunge by up to 10 percent by 2040. |
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💻 Nearly half of Americans say they see misinformation daily: survey
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As social media platforms and search engines double down on fighting misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, new survey results from MediaWise, the Poynter Institute's digital media literacy initiative, show 47 percent of Americans see false or misleading information every day.
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🔬 CDC official: Several hundred polio cases likely circulating in N.Y.
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An official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a polio case detected in New York last month, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade, could be an indication of "several hundred cases" within that community. |
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💉 Monkeypox vaccine maker raises concerns about plan to split doses
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The CEO of the company that makes the only vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent monkeypox told Biden administration health officials he was concerned about a new strategy to split doses and change the way the vaccine is injected. |
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💊 Contact sports in high school linked to prescription drug abuse later |
High school seniors who participate in sports are more likely than non-athletes to misuse prescription stimulants during their 20s, but those involved in contact sports are even more likely to do so, according to a new study. |
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📺 Shannon Bream named 'Fox News Sunday' host
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Wildfire and electric grid: Crisis requires long-term planning |
"New tactics need to be adopted to protect infrastructure, principally by investing in prevention strategies and secondarily by coordinating interagency approaches and community participation," writes Cassie Koerner, a researcher at the Energy Policy Institute at Boise State University. |
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