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Operation Mincemeat Netflix: Bizarre true story of how a corpse fooled Hitler

Operation Mincemeat is a daring tale of wartime intrigue and deception. A film starring Colin Firth looks into the top-secret World War 2 operation that helped changed the course of the war

Daily Mirror

Once a Hartford treasure, J. Doyle Dewitt collection of historic American political memorabilia sold at auction

HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Hartford has quietly sold one of the most extraordinary collections of American political memorabilia ever assembled — a collection one of the city’s insurance titans spent a lifetime assembling and later donated to the school in the hope that it would be preserved and…

Tribune News Service

AP source: DOJ denies panel details in Trump records probe

The Justice Department has declined a request this week from the House oversight committee regarding the contents of records that former President Donald Trump took to his Florida residence after leaving the White House

The Independent UK

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State Dept.: Trump gift records missing

The only reason to conceal gift records is "because you intend to violate the law," former U.S. attorney says

Salon

FBI probes "secret" docs at Mar-a-Lago

“This is a big deal,” government watchdog group says as DOJ blocks House investigators from reviewing the documents

Salon

DoJ refusal to share Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents with Congress suggests issue is under investigation

House Oversight chair says Justice Department ‘is obstructing Committee’s investigation’

The Independent UK

House panel: Justice Dept. 'obstructing' Trump records probe

A congressional committee says the Justice Department is interfering with an investigation into former President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

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Tracking down the family and the famous

The National Archives unlocked the U.S. Census for 1950 on Friday. Poking around is fun, if you know how to look.

Chicago Sun-Times

Census records from 1950 could solve some family mysteries

The first-ever publication of 1950 census records promises to solve some family mysteries for amateur genealogists and family historians

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.

The Independent UK

'Gold mine' of census records being released from 1950

Genealogists and historians can get a microscopic look at sweeping historical trends when individual records from the 1950 census are released this week

The Independent UK

Trump Jan. 6 phone logs have 7-hour gap

Trump's gap makes Nixon's infamous 18 minutes "look like nothing in comparison," says law professor Laurence Tribe

Salon

Republican calls out Ginni Thomas' texts

Thomas' texts called for 2020 presidential election results to be overturned

Salon

National Archives turns over Trump White House logs to January 6 panel

Select committee investigating Capitol attack also receives records from former vice-president Mike Pence

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House committee requests White House records recovered from Trump’s home

Letter to National Archives requests files found in boxes at Mar-a-Lago that should have been turned over when Trump left office

Los Angeles Times

Congress expands investigation into missing and destroyed Trump presidential records

WASHINGTON — The House Oversight and Reform Committee is scaling up its investigation into what its chairwoman says could be “the largest-scale violations of the Presidential Records Act since its enactment,” according to a letter being sent to the National Archives on Friday.

The Independent UK

House panel requests Trump WH records from National Archives

A congressional oversight committee has sought additional documents from the National Archives related to former President Donald Trump’s handling of White House records

Zenger

Records Of Seized Ships, Now Online, Reveal Details Of Wars And Enslaved Africans

So-called “Prize Papers” recount privateering, slavery and legal appeals of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Lynn Schmidt: American presidents' history of historic preservation

George Washington, whose birthday Americans celebrate this month, sent a letter on Aug. 13, 1776, to the president of Congress regarding the safeguarding of his papers. Washington understood the importance of preserving our new nation’s history. Many of our first president’s successors also appreciated this. They became stewards of the…

Axios

In photos: Sports and Japanese American incarceration camps

To pass the time and ease the trauma of incarceration, people of all ages played sports and organized fitness classes.

Al Jazeera

Trump took classified items to Mar-a-Lago, National Archives says

The revelation could interest federal investigators responsible for policing the handling of government secrets.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump suffers legal setbacks in Washington, New York

The National Archives said Trump took classified documents; a federal judge refused to dismiss lawsuits against him over the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol; and another judge ruled he must testify in a lawsuit over the Trump Organization’s business practices.

The Independent UK

National Archives: Trump took classified items to Mar-a-Lago

Classified information has been found in the 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence

ABC News

Donald Trump took classified material from White House to Florida, US National Archives says

Items marked as classified national security information were found among 15 boxes of documents recently recovered from the former president's Mar-a-lago residence.

Los Angeles Times

National Archives says Trump White House didn’t preserve social media records, some material recovered from Mar-a-Lago was classified

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House did not preserve the former president’s social media accounts, the national archivist told Congress on Friday, warning lawmakers that some of the missing records may not be retrievable.

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