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Judge says Trump doesn’t need to comply with special master order to back up planted evidence claims

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a rally Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Wilmington, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

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A federal judge on Thursday told former President Trump’s legal team that it doesn’t have to obey an order from a special master demanding proof of their claims that the FBI planted evidence when agents raided Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last month.

In this June 26, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Ohio man who was jailed for making fun of police online takes First Amendment case to Supreme Court

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FBI lawyers ‘inappropriately’ weighed in on sensitive cases, DOJ watchdog says

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In this frame grab from video provided by Bobby Pratt, people walk along the Times Square area of Fort Meyers Beach, Fla., after Hurricane Ian tore through the area, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Bobby Pratt via AP)

Ian thrusts Florida’s collapsing insurance market to forefront of races for governor, Senate

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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., watches a video during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

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Flowers and candles are placed around crosses on May 28, 2022, at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to honor the victims killed in the school shooting a few days prior. A federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Del Rio, Texas, against eight entities and three individuals for the May shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers at the elementary school. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers take a knee with demonstrators, as they march on Pennsylvania Avenue, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Washington, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

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New graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township, N.J., on May 13, 2018. President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation offers a life-changing financial break for millions of Americans. But for future students heading to college under the same conditions that created today’s debt, critics say it offers little help. Chief among the causes of today's rising student debt is the cost of college. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. A Delaware judge is hearing arguments, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022 over the exchange of information by lawyers in Twitter's lawsuit seeking to force billionaire Elon Musk to carry through with his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Twitter accuses would-be buyer Elon Musk of destroying evidence at Tuesday hearing

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Andrea Bocelli performs at the Platinum Jubilee concert taking place in front of Buckingham Palace, London, Saturday June 4, 2022, on the third of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. (Jeff J Mitchell /Pool photo via AP)

Singer Andrea Boccelli sues private jet firm

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks to the media at DMI Companies in Monongahela, Pa., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger)

‘Irretrievably broken’: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband files for divorce

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Anonymous Hasidim men walk on a Jerusalem street. (Image: Shutterstock/studio evasion) ** FILE **

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New graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township, N.J., on May 13, 2018. President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation offers a life-changing financial break for millions of Americans. But for future students heading to college under the same conditions that created today’s debt, critics say it offers little help. Chief among the causes of today's rising student debt is the cost of college. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Six states sue Biden administration over student debt relief

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Remnants of damaged homes and flooded vehicles are seen in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Thursday, Sep 29, 2022, following Hurricane Ian. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Biden says Ian could be ‘deadliest’ storm in Florida’s history

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Fla. Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Authorities and residents in Florida are keeping a cautious eye on Tropical Storm Ian as it rumbles through the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center said Sunday it expects Ian to rapidly strengthen and become a major hurricane by Monday as it passes over Cuba. Gov. DeSantis has declared a statewide emergency, expanding an order from Friday that had covered two dozen counties. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP)

DeSantis says he told Biden that federal aid is needed for additional Florida counties

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, center left, stands next to the demarcation line at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

House Republicans call for top FBI official to answer questions on retaliation complaints

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Former President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a rally Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Wilmington, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Judge says Trump doesn’t need to comply with special master order to back up planted evidence claims

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Igor Danchenko leaves the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., on Nov. 4, 2021. A judge is allowing prosecutors to move forward with their criminal case against Danchenko, who provided key details for a flawed dossier on ex-President Donald Trump, although the judge called his decision “an extremely close call.” Lawyers for Danchenko asked a judge Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, to dismiss all five charges against him. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Judge refuses to toss case against Steele dossier source

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this frame grab from video provided by Bobby Pratt, people walk along the Times Square area of Fort Meyers Beach, Fla., after Hurricane Ian tore through the area, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Bobby Pratt via AP)

Ian thrusts Florida’s collapsing insurance market to forefront of races for governor, Senate

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Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai) **FILE**

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A large disturbance in the sea can be observed off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, following a series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea to Germany have triggered concerns about possible sabotage. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says she &quot;cannot rule out&quot; sabotage after three leaks were detected on Nord Stream 1 and 2. (Danish Defence Command via AP)

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Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from the New Jersey base on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. They are completing a journey that started with the chaotic evacuation from Kabul in August. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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FILE - A sign stands at the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md., June 6, 2013. A former NSA employee is charged with trying to sell classified information to a foreign government. The Justice Department says 30-year-old Jareh Sebastian Dalke of Colorado Springs was arrested Wednesday after allegedly passing information to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a representative of an unnamed foreign government. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Ex-NSA worker charged with trying to sell U.S. secrets

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Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. Massive fraud in the nation's unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Joe Biden and Congress prepare to pour hundreds of billions more into expanded benefits for those left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

Hundreds of DHS employees took pandemic unemployment aid even though they were working: Audit

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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., watches a video during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Planned Parenthood doctor tells committee that ‘men can have pregnancies, especially trans men’

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Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 9, 2016. Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, was criminally charged in New York with violating U.S. sanctions in an indictment unsealed Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, that also charges three others. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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A Russian national flag flies over the Mariupol Sea Port which has recently started its work after heavy fighting in Mariupol, on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People's Republic control, eastern Ukraine, on June 12, 2022. Even as the Russian war machine crawls across Ukraine’s east, trying to achieve the Kremlin’s goal of securing a full control over the country’s industrial heartland of the Donbas, the Ukrainian forces are scaling up attacks to reclaim territory in the south. (AP Photo) **FILE**

First openly trans army officer accused of trying to pass information to Russia

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Russian recruits board a bus at a military recruitment center in Volzhskiy, Volgograd region, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine. (AP Photo)

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A man walks past a damaged building after a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Maryland running back Colby McDonald (23) rushes against Rutgers during the first half of an NCAA football game, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, in Piscataway, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Maryland dusts off retro ‘script’ uniforms, helmets

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Washington Wizards players including Rui Hachimura, center, work out in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, ahead of the NBA preseason games in Japan. Japanese basketball fans will get to see NBA stars up close when the reigning league-champion Golden State Warriors take on the Washington Wizards in two preseason games. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

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