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Biden administration urges Congress to renew warrantless surveillance law

Section 702 cast as an essential tool to gather intelligence about terrorists and other foreign targets located overseas

The Guardian - US

US officials make case for renewal of surveillance powers

Biden administration officials are urging Congress to renew a surveillance program that the U.S. government has long seen as vital in countering overseas threats of terrorism, cyberattacks and espionage operations

The Independent UK

Trump accuses prosecutors of ’trying to steal a second Presidential Election’

The former president says ‘They did it in 2020, and we’re not going to let them do it again in 2024’

The Independent UK

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Mark Meadows hit with Jan. 6 subpoena

Meadows is expected to assert executive privilege but may face federal criminal charges instead, experts say

Salon

Senators fault Department of Justice for 'appalling' conditions in jails

LOS ANGELES — The federal government started investigating Los Angeles jails in 1996 — back when Bill Clinton was president, the Spice Girls were all the rage, and Tupac Shakur's killing dominated the news.

Los Angeles Times

Untouchable review: Trump as ‘lawless Houdini’ above US justice

Elie Honig offers a powerful indictment of the former president and those who have failed to bring him down

The Guardian - US

New York truck attacker may face death penalty despite Biden pledge

New York (AFP) - President Joe Biden promised to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes, but the US government is due to argue, beginning Monday, that an Uzbek man should get the death penalty for killing eight people in New York half a decade ago.

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Trump team handed over more classified Mar-a-Lago documents

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team turned over several pages of documents with classified markings and a laptop containing electronic scans of those materials to federal investigators in recent months, a person familiar with the situation said.

Tribune News Service

Trump lawyer in Mar-a-Lago search appeared before grand jury

WASHINGTON — Evan Corcoran, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, appeared before a federal grand jury last month as part of the special counsel investigation into whether classified information and other government records were mishandled at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service

FBI search of Pence’s Indiana residence finds new classified document

Lawyer for Trump’s former vice-president reportedly present for search, which followed discovery of documents there last month

The Guardian - US

How they compare: Trump, Biden, Pence classified documents

There are plenty of similarities — but also a major difference — among the classified-records situations of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and Trump's vice president, Mike Pence

The Independent UK

What’s happening with the Trump special counsel investigation?

WASHINGTON — Jack Smith, a veteran Justice Department prosecutor, is tasked with overseeing criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the White House, and a separate probe into attempts to stop President Biden from assuming office after the 2020 election.

Los Angeles Times

Russia-Ukraine war: more than 100 soldiers returned to Kyiv in prisoner exchange

Announcement from Ukrainian president’s office follows Russian statement on 63 of its own soldiers

The Guardian - AU

Russia putting 'more and more forces' into Donbas battle, says Zelensky

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said the situation on the front lines in the east of the country was getting tougher, with Russia throwing more and more troops into battle, hours after the two sides agreed to exchange dozens of prisoners of war. Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said a serious accident…

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The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: What to know about the Trump and Biden document stories – and why they’re very different

In today’s newsletter: Both the current and previous president of the United States are under investigation over classified documents – but their cases are very different

Tribune News Service

Special counsel Robert Hur takes over probe into Biden's handling of documents

WASHINGTON — Robert Hur, the special counsel overseeing the possible mishandling into whether President Joe Biden broke any laws related to the mishandling of classified documents, officially begins his work Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

FBI searched Biden’s beach house amid document probe, lawyer says

US president’s lawyer says search, conducted with Biden’s cooperation, did not result in finding classified documents.

The Independent UK

Trump investigations: Georgia prosecutor ups anticipation

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn’t come from anyone at the Justice Department

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Los Angeles Times

Doyle McManus: Biden's documents misstep helps Trump politically — and legally too

When classified documents turned up in President Joe Biden's former office, his Delaware home and the garage housing his Corvette, the political impact was predictable. Republicans gleefully accused Biden of the same offense that prompted the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump's Florida estate last August.

The Independent UK

SNL addresses killing of Tyre Nichols in rare serious moment for comedy show

’We gonna make sure justice is served down in Memphis, right?’ Kenan Tompson said

Axios

City of Memphis releases footage of police fatally beating Tyre Nichols

Memphis has braced for the footage after warnings it shows officers beating Nichols.

WEKU

A man who killed 8 bicyclists in Manhattan is convicted and may face the death penalty

Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of running down riders with a rental truck on a Manhattan bike path in 2017. Prosecutors said the Halloween attack was inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State.

AFP

US arrests three in Iran-backed plot to assassinate dissident journalist Alinejad

Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced the indictment Friday of three members of a European criminal gang who allegedly undertook a Tehran-backed plot to assassinate dissident Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Charges Three in Iran-Backed Effort to Assassinate Journalist

US prosecutors have charged three members of an Eastern European criminal organization which has ties to Iran's government with conspiring to assassinate a journalist and activist who is a US citizen, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday. Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev were charged with murder-for-hire and…

The Conversation

Biden and Trump are both accused of mishandling classified documents – but there are key differences

When the US Department of Justice revealed on January 21 that its investigators had found classified materials in Joe Biden’s Delaware home, there was outrage – or, to be more accurate in most cases faux outrage – in Republican party circles. They wasted no time in demanding further investigation into…

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