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Prosecutions under the statute present a plethora of challenges

The Department of Justice has informed former U.S. vice-president Mike Pence 's legal team that it will not pursue criminal charges related to the discovery of classified documents at his Indiana home.

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Maybe the problem isn't the stacks of classified documents sitting around the houses of presidents, vice presidents, and other administration officials. Maybe the problem is the system that declares all these pieces of paper too secretive to be handled carelessly or hoarded impertinently. That's the thrust of David Dayen's excellent piece for The American Prospect,…

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Plus, the used car boom comes to an abrupt end, and is the filmed philanthropy of MrBeast just ‘performative altruism?’

Documents with classified markings were discovered in former U.S. vice-president Mike Pence's Indiana home last week, according to his attorney.

The announcement that classified documents were found at President Joe Biden's office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement - and then more material at his Wilmington, Del., re...

Brief explainer, comparison between Biden and Trump's retaining of classified documents