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BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — A helicopter carrying Ukraine's interior minister crashed into a kindergarten in a foggy residential suburb of Kyiv on…
Virtually everything was going right for President Joe Biden to open the year. Biden's approval ratings were ticking up. Inflation was slowing. And Republicans were at war with themselves after a disappointing midterm season. But Biden's rosy political outlook veered into uncertainty Thursday after the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to investigate the Democratic president's handling of classified documents. Democrats concede the stunning development is at best an unwelcome distraction at an inopportune time that muddies the case against Donald Trump. The Republican former president faces a special counsel of his own and is under federal criminal investigation for his handling of classified documents and other potential transgressions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington. Earlier Thursday, Biden acknowledged that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his "personal library" at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, along with other classified documents found in his garage. Biden told reporters at the White House that he was "cooperating fully and completely" with a Justice Department investigation. Biden did not say when the latest documents were found, only that his lawyers' review of potential storage locations was completed Wednesday night.
President Joe Biden says he was "surprised' when he was informed that government records were found by his attorneys at a former office space in Washington. The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a "damage assessment" of potentially classified documents found among the papers. Speaking to reporters in Mexico City, Biden says his attorneys "did what they should have done" when they immediately called the National Archives about the discovery. Biden says he doesn't know what's in the documents," adding his lawyers have suggested he not inquire what was in them. The Department of Justice is reviewing the matter.
Brazil's capital is bracing for the possibility of more violent demonstrations by people seeking to overturn the presidential election. Local security officials are blocking access to buildings trashed on Sunday by rioters. A flyer promoting a "mega-protest to retake power" circulated on social media platforms urging protesters to turn out Wednesday in two dozen cities, including the capital. It is unclear how large or violent such demonstrations might shape up to be, but skittish authorities are taking no chances. The federal appointee who has assumed control of the capital's security says police are shutting down the main avenue to traffic and limiting pedestrian access with barricades. They will block all access to the square that was the site of Sunday's mayhem.
House Republicans have opened their long-promised investigation into President Joe Biden and his family. They are wielding the power of their majority to demand information from the Treasury Department and former Twitter executives as they lay the groundwork for public hearings. The Republican-led Oversight Committee requested financial information from the Treasury Department surrounding financial transactions members of the Biden family made, as well as testimony from multiple former Twitter executives, who were involved in the company's handling of an October 2020 story from the New York Post about the president's son. A White House spokesperson called the investigation a "political stunt."
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has requested that U.S. intelligence conduct a "damage assessment" of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute, Rep. Mike Turner sent the request Tuesday to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, saying that Biden's retention of the documents puts him in "potential violation of laws protecting national security, including the Espionage Act and Presidential Records Act." It comes a day after the White House confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing "a small number of documents with classified markings" that were discovered as Biden's personal attorneys were clearing out the offices of the Penn Biden Center.
