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FBI agents found 90 empty folders that had once held extremely sensitive documents among the 27 boxes removed from former president Donald Trump's home during a court-authorised search on 8 August, according to an unsealed copy of a detailed inventory filed with a federal judge. The 27 boxes were found to contain at least 11,000 documents which are by law the property of the United States government and were supposed to be returned to the National Archives at the close of his term. Agents also seized more than 100 "unique documents with classification markings", including three stored in Mr Trump's desk. Classification levels ranged from confidential – the lowest level of classification in the US system – to the highest, top secret. But Mr Trump's hoard of stolen government property also included folders with markings indicating that they had contained classified or sensitive documents that were meant to be returned to the White House staff secretary, a key White House aide who manages the flow of paper to and from the president's desk. Of the 90 empty folders recovered by agents, 47 of them had these markings, while the remainder were meant to be returned to the staff secretary's office. |
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| President says remarks were directed at supporters of violence and overturning elections, not at those who simply voted for his opponent |
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| Broward Sheriff's Gregory Tony said Robert Mondragon reconstructed Nikolas Cruz's journey on the day of the Parkland massacre |
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| The storm is in the middle of the Atlantic about halfway between New Jersey and Portugal |
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| The bees were later identified as African killers, which left inch-long stingers in 20-year-old Austin Bellamy's head, neck, arms and legs |
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What are the critics saying about The Rings of Power? |
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is finally available to stream, ending a long wait for fans who have been impatient for the show to land ever since Jeff Bezos's omnipotent Amazon empire paid JRR Tolkien's estate $250m for the rights to set a fantasy series in the world of Middle-earth way back in 2017. The drama is set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. According to the show's official logline, it promises to "take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien's pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness".
Which all sounds appropriately grandiose – but what are the critics saying?
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"For a long time, we've reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not." |
– Joe Biden warns of the danger to democracy posed by acolytes of former president Donald Trump and other Republican candidates who want to strip citizens of their most basic rights. |
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