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Val Demings’ big TV spending may pay dividends, but she’s playing catchup with Rubio

WASHINGTON — It’s not often high-profile incumbent candidates fall behind in the political ad wars early on in their campaigns.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 19, 2022

How a ban on visitors impacted the smuggling of drugs into Florida prisons

Prison officials have long said that inmates’ friends and family members bear the most blame for the flow of drugs and other forbidden items into Florida prisons.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 19, 2022

Judge orders Justice Department to prepare Trump affidavit redactions, leans toward disclosure

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida said Thursday he is likely to order the release of a key court document behind the search of former President Donald Trump’s home, despite warnings from the Justice Department that its disclosure could “irreparably harm” an ongoing criminal investigation.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 18, 2022

Here’s where FBI agents searched for classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Agents with the FBI had a warrant to search any rooms at Mar-a-Lago used by the club’s owner, former president Donald Trump, or his staff, according to court documents unsealed Friday afternoon.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 12, 2022

The long list of episodes that stoked security concerns at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Long before Monday’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, reportedly to recover classified documents related to nuclear weapons, the Palm Beach, Florida, club had presented a host of security concerns and been breached numerous times.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 12, 2022

Secret contacts revive the search for Austin Tice, missing for 10 years in Syria

WASHINGTON — At 4:30 in the morning on May 2, Debra and Marc Tice woke up in their Texas home to a phone call from the White House. President Joe Biden wanted to meet them in Washington that afternoon.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 12, 2022

Money from pool, alarm firms, condo association boosts Surfside wrongful death fund by $53M

MIAMI — A fire alarm company, a security alarm monitoring firm and a swimming pool contractor settled for about $1 million each in the Surfside condominium collapse class-action case, according to a Miami-Dade circuit court filing on Wednesday.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 11, 2022

‘Limp & late’: Trump allies pound McConnell for measured response to FBI search

WASHINGTON — As political reaction reached a boil over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Mitch McConnell was standing in Eastern Kentucky attending to the aftermath of calamitous flooding there.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 10, 2022

Biden calls on Syria to help bring Austin Tice home: ‘10 years is far, far too long’

WASHINGTON — The United States knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government has held Austin Tice, a reporter and former U.S. Marine missing in Syria since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home, President Joe Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 10, 2022

Biden calls on Syria to help bring Austin Tice home: ‘Ten years is far, far too long’

WASHINGTON — The United States knows “with certainty” that the Syrian government has held Austin Tice, a reporter and former U.S. Marine missing in Syria since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home, President Joe Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Aug 10, 2022