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Topline The FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence was carried out after the Justice Department obtained evidence that classified government documents were hidden or moved by the former president and his aides despite their previous assurances that all such material had been returned, the DOJ disclosed in a court…

The cameras went live in Fox headquarters in midtown Manhattan last week as Larry Kudlow introduced a special in-studio guest. Beside him was Jared Kushner, his former Trump administration colleague, there to plug his memoir, Breaking History. Who’s actually going to read this book? Kudlow asked. “I wasn’t really a…

WASHINGTON — Secret Service official Tony Ornato announced his retirement on Monday, two months after a former White House aide testified that he had told her then-President Donald Trump lashed out in anger when agents refused to drive him to the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot by his supporters. Secret Service spokesman…

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” that “MAGA Republicans” defending Donald Trump after the FBI raid of his Florida estate are engaged in “cultish, un-American, treasonous behavior.” Witt said, “What is interesting is listening to Trump defenders. They have constantly shifted the goalposts by first…

Sen. Roy Blunt offered tepid criticism of Donald Trump on Sunday, saying the former president should have complied with earlier requests to return classified documents — but Mr. Blunt also voiced concerns about the motives behind the controversial raid of Mar-a-Lago. The Missouri Republican, a member of GOP Senate leadership who sits on…

Retired Army colonel Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator from Pennsylvania who is running for governor, poses at left in a Confederate uniform in a 2013-14 faculty photo at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 9, 2014. The photo was released by the Army…

U.S. intelligence officials are preparing to assess the potential risk to national security from documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s home. “The Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during…

The Department of Justice released a heavily redacted affidavit on Friday, used to obtain the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and revealing the nation's top law enforcement agency's concerns about finding government records, including classified documents about secret intelligence sources and national defense information, as well as evidence of efforts to obstruct the recovery of such material. The…

In the hours following the Justice Department's release of a partially redacted version of the affidavit that kicked off the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago, Trump and key figures in his circle sounded off reactions.  Trump himself took to Truth Social to rant "Affidavit heavily redacted!!! . . . Nothing mentioned on 'Nuclear,' a…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden lashed out Thursday night at Republicans who have embraced the "Make America Great Again" philosophy central to Donald Trump's presidency, saying it's "like semi-fascism." Biden made the comment at a fundraiser for Democrats at a home in Bethesda, Md., ahead of a kickoff rally he…