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JFK assassination files: Lee Harvey Oswald was regarded as a ‘poor shot’ by the KGB, newly-released papers reveal

More than 1,100 files consisting of in excess of 31,000 pages have been posted on the US National Archives and Records Administration’s website

Evening Standard

New details on little-known Obama Presidential Library, tucked away in Hoffman Estates

U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, whose National Archives and Records Administration operates presidential libraries, talks about the library in an exclusive Sun-Times interview.

Chicago Sun-Times

Overclassification overkill: The US government is drowning in a sea of secrets

The U.S. faces far more threats to its national security than from spy balloons or classified documents discovered in former and current presidents’ homes.

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National Archives lawyer pushed for clarity on Trump papers, emails show

The National Archives and Records Administration released another set of documents related to the storage of classified material and presidential documents at Mar-a-Lago by former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

House oversight committee asks Archives to review Trump storage unit where classified documents were found

The storage unit at issue was recently searched by a private firm hired by Mr Trump’s attorneys

The Independent UK

Trump rally admission may be "evidence"

Attorney George Conway posted a photo of Miranda rights to warn Trump he has "the right to remain silent"

Salon

Key Trump aide Kash Patel granted immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago secret documents case, report says

Mr Patel is one of Trump’s representatives to National Archives and Records Administration

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Archives nominee to face questions over Mar-a-Lago search

President Joe Biden's nominee to head the National Archives and Records Administration will face an unusually contentious Senate confirmation hearing

The Independent UK

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

Salon

Trump lawyers push dubious docs claim

Attorneys suggest Trump may have declassified or designated documents as personal but won't actually say he did

Salon

How Archives went from 'National Treasure' to political prey

Never before has the National Archives and Records Administration been caught up in a criminal investigation of a former president

The Independent UK

Federal Circuit re: Bulk Unsealing Plans -- Never Mind

From today's order: Upon further consideration of the court's August 17, 2022 Order, the court finds it impracticable at this time to continue to proceed with the proposed unsealing of previously-identified cases. Specifically, the court finds that there will be insufficient time and considerable, unanticipated administrative difficulty to both the…

Reason

More than 100 classified Trump docs recovered back in Jan.

The National Archives and Records Administration recovered 100 documents bearing classified markings, totaling more than 700 pages, from a initial batch of 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year

The Independent UK

Trump FBI search riles GOP ahead of National Archives nominee’s hearing

WASHINGTON — The Yale Ph.D. who’s been nominated to lead the National Archives faces a hostile path to confirmation as GOP senators vow to “absolutely demand answers” after the agency prompted the FBI search of Donald Trump’s home.

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The Independent UK

Federal prosecutors have ‘all’ Trump White House documents obtained by Jan 6 committee: report

The Independent has confirmed the existence of a subpoena which demanded that the National Archives and Records Administration provide federal prosecutors with ‘all materials, in whatever form’ that have been turned over to the House January 6 select committee

Chicago Sun-Times

The facts behind Trump’s garbage claim that Obama ‘kept’ 33 million documents

The unclassified documents from the Obama administration are at the official Obama Presidential Library in Hoffman Estates; classified material is in Maryland.

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump 'concerned' that wife Melania could be a possible informant for FBI raid

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly becoming increasingly paranoid after finger-pointing toward people in his own family occurred amid speculation someone may have been an informant for the FBI raid

The Independent UK

Timeline of events leading up to FBI search of Trump's home

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has already sent reverberations across the country even as new details emerge about what federal agents were looking for in the investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence

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How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for the National Archives and future historians

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for…

Tribune News Service

National Archives demands report on lost Secret Service texts

The keeper of federal records asked the Secret Service to determine whether any text messages by agents around the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were improperly deleted.

The Independent UK

National Archives asks Secret Service to probe deleted texts

The National Archives has requested a probe of “the potential unauthorized deletion” of text messages the Secret Service sent and received around the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

Capitol riot committee has official White House photos from day of attack

The photographs by ex-White House photographer Shealah Craighead could show what Donald Trump was doing as a mob of his supporters assaulted police and stormed the Capitol

The Independent UK

State Department: WH gift records for Trump, Pence missing

The State Department says it's unable to compile a complete accounting of gifts presented to U.S. officials by foreign governments during the final year of the Trump administration due to missing White House data

Chicago Sun-Times

1950 Census records made public, offering ‘unique peek into our nation’s past’ — and into the homes of Grandma and Grandpa

The records - contained in a free database - will help genealogists, historians and anyone interested in learning more about their own family ancestry.

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: A guide to shaping 1950 census release coverage

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.

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