Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents that were potentially mishandled following President Biden's tenure as vice president. Robert Hur, a former Trump-appointed US attorney in Maryland who resigned in 2021, is now looking into batches of classified documents that have been found at Biden's former Washington, D.C., office and his private property in Delaware. "The extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter," Garland said in announcing his decision. "This appointment underscores for the public the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters." Hur's been tasked with reviewing "the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents," Garland said. The situation has been compared to former President Trump's possession of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The White House has repeatedly pushed back on those comparisons, claiming Biden's team immediately reached out to the National Archives when it discovered top secret documents were being stored outside of the federal government's confines. "They did the right thing, and they did it voluntarily," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday. Read more here. More from The Hill on Biden's classified documents: - Who is Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating Biden's classified documents?
- White House 'confident' Biden documents were 'inadvertently misplaced'
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says he thinks Biden knew his office had classified documents
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🗳️ Former Nebraska Gov. Ricketts tapped to fill Sasse's Senate seat
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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) has tapped former Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) to fill the Senate seat vacated by former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) earlier this month. |
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📈 Bipartisan duo reintroduces bill on Congress and stocks
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A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to ban members of Congress and some of their family from trading individual stocks while they are in office. |
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🦠 Pence: Vaccine-discharged military members should be reinstated
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Former Vice President Pence in an exclusive interview with The Hill called on the Biden administration to reinstate and repay members of the military who were discharged for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine now that the mandate for the shot has been lifted. |
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🔍 Democrats urge Biden to investigate border paramilitary groups
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Three Senate Democrats are raising alarms about the growth of U.S.-based paramilitary groups along the border with Mexico and the lack of federal government oversight to regulate them. |
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🤰 Virginia lawmaker wants fetuses to count as HOV passengers
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A new Virginia bill would count a pregnant person's fetus as a separate individual, permitting the pregnant person to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes on highways. |
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🛸 Number of reported UFO incidents increasing, government says
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The number of reported UFO incidents has sharply increased as more than 360 incidents have been reported or discovered in the past two years, according to a new intelligence report. |
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💉 Childhood vaccination rates fall again, alarming experts, CDC
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The percentage of kindergarten students who have not received routine childhood vaccinations rose again during the 2021-22 school year, federal health officials said Thursday, as the lingering COVID-19 pandemic disrupted efforts to get kids vaccinated. |
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🇷🇺 Russia releases US Navy veteran detained for nearly a year
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Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran after nearly a year of detention in a Russian province between Poland and Lithuania. |
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🌡️ 2022 tied as fifth-warmest on record: NASA
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The average surface temperature for Earth during 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, NASA has found in a new analysis. |
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💰 Mega Millions: The numbers drawn the most since the last jackpot
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It's been nearly three months since a Mega Millions ticket matched all six numbers to claim the game's top prize, allowing the jackpot to grow to a record-setting $1.35 billion ahead of Friday's drawing. |
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'How many immigrants can the US realistically accept?'
| "President Biden's speech on migration is a step in the right direction, but it failed to address a question he and his predecessors have avoided," writes Tom Mockaitis, professor of history at DePaul University. |
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