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Why Legal Experts See the Justice Dept.’s Alaska Election Challenge as Dubious

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.

© Kerry Tasker for The New York Times

Senator Dan Sullivan with Mary Peltola, his Democratic challenger, during a debate in Kodiak, Alaska, last month.
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Two Former F.B.I. Officials Charged With False Statements About Hunter Biden

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Alan Feuer · Charlie Savage and Zach Montague
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

The two officials served on the F.B.I.’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a group created after Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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How the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

President Trump speaking to reporters at the White House last week.
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Senator Marsha Blackburn Sues Over Jack Smith’s Subpoena During Trump Inquiry

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.

© Photographs by Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Senator Marsha Blackburn’s lawsuit seeks a declaration that Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conspired to violate her rights during an investigation into Donald J. Trump.
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Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration’s Memo on Boat Strikes

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Benjamin Weiser and Charlie Savage
The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Since September 2025, a Pentagon campaign has carried out 70 known boat strikes, killing more than 230 people in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Dustin Volz · Alan Feuer · Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

A criminal hacking group known as ShinyHunters said it had targeted the F.B.I. as retribution for its public warning in the spring that the group was known to harass its victims and their family members.
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Andrew Bailey, a Deputy Director at the F.B.I., Leaves His Job

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett · Alan Feuer · Glenn Thrush and Charlie Savage
Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.

© Mike Stewart/Associated Press

An internal F.B.I. email indicated that Andrew Bailey was departing from his role for family reasons.
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Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump’s attempt to block Mike Pence’s grand jury testimony.

© Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times

Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, after Congress certified the Electoral College votes for the presidential election.
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Blanche’s Political Campaigning Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.

© Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Attorney General Todd Blanche speaking last week on the first day of the Republican midterm convention.
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Judge Unseals Filings From Jack Smith Subpoena for Lawmaker’s Phone Data

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
The Justice Department had balked at the disclosure, saying that the government had not acknowledged the special counsel’s subpoenas and that grand jury information was secret.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The use of subpoenas by the special counsel Jack Smith to obtain lawmakers’ call records has been known since October.
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Jury Delivers Mixed Verdict in Case of Afghan Charged in 2021 Kabul Attack

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
Jurors found the man guilty of conspiracy to support the terrorist group that took credit for a horrific bombing, but deadlocked on whether he was responsible for the attack itself.

© Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times

People being sent away from the scene of a bomb blast outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021.
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Surveillance Law Is in Limbo After House Approval

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage and Michael Gold
Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push a three-year renewal through the House, but the Senate appeared likely to opt for a 45-day punt ahead of a Friday expiration.

© Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times

Speaker Mike Johnson struggled for more than two hours on Wednesday to round up the votes to bring up the surveillance bill.
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U.S. Settles Carter Page Wiretap Lawsuit for $1.25 Million

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
F.B.I. applications to surveil Mr. Page, a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, during the investigation into Russia’s interference in the election had myriad errors and omissions, an inspector general found.

© Adam Gray/Getty Images

While Carter Page’s wiretapping was a minor part of the Russia investigation, it took on major political significance.
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U.S. Abruptly Rescinds Subpoenas in John Brennan Inquiry

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage
The reversal came after the Justice Department replaced a career prosecutor with a loyalist to President Trump in the administration’s effort to charge the former C.I.A. chief with a crime.

© Al Drago/The New York Times

John O. Brennan testifying to Congress in 2017.
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer
A former lawyer for President Trump’s campaign, Joseph diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits.

© Tom Williams

Joseph diGenova, 81, who served as a U.S. attorney in the Reagan era, has been given the title of counselor to the attorney general and detailed to the Southern District of Florida.
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Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Charlie Savage · Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush
A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.

© Al Drago/The New York Times

John O. Brennan during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Jan. 10, 2017, when he was still C.I.A. director, on Russia’s interference in the previous year’s presidential campaign.
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