WASHINGTON — FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday as part of an investigation ​into sharing secret government information, officials said, in a move that advocates said threatened press freedom. Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal agents had executed the search at the request of the Defense Department. ‌Trump's Justice Department last year reversed a policy that had barred prosecutors from seizing records from reporters in ⁠most circumstances. The Washington Post said on X that ⁠investigators told Natanson she was not a focus of the probe. Under owner Jeff Bezos, the world's fourth-richest person, the Washington Post has shifted its formerly left-leaning opinion section to the right, but its news coverage remains nonpartisan.

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The FBI raided the home of a Washington Post reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” by the Trump administration. The warrant, she said, was executed “at the home of a Washington Post journalist who was obtaining and reporting classified and illegally leaked information from a Pentagon contractor. The federal investigation into Perez-Lugones, the Post said, involved documents found in his lunchbox and his basement, according to an FBI affidavit. The criminal complaint against him does not accuse him of leaking classified information, the newspaper said. Press freedom groups were united in their condemnation of the raid on Wednesday.

The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday morning at a Washington Post reporter’s home as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials. It is exceptionally rare for law enforcement officials to conduct searches at reporters’ homes. Investigators determined that there was classified information in their chat, the official said. But Bondi said that the Justice Department would search reporters’ communication records only when other investigative methods had been exhausted. If law enforcement did take investigatory steps against reporters, top Justice Department officials needed to sign off on those steps and publicly report the actions.

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The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter Wednesday as part of an investigation into a government contractor who has been accused of illegally retaining classified materials, the newspaper confirmed. The FBI has accused Perez-Lugones of searching databases containing classified information without authorization and either printing or taking screenshots of that material, according to the complaint. There was no immediate response from The Washington Post to Bondi's claim. The Washington Post Guild, which represents unionized workers at the newspaper, said on social media it was "appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices." Former top Justice Department spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said on X that the FBI searched the reporter's home to uncover her sources.

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The counting of unlawful votes — or discarding of lawful ones — erodes public confidence in election results and the elected representative. And a candidate has a personal stake in the rules that govern the counting of votes in his election,” Roberts wrote. Requiring such a showing could channel many election disputes to shortly before election day or after. Yet the Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election. In 2024, a group known as Issue One, a nonpartisan political reform think tank, found that billionaires in particular were bankrolling legal challenges to election rules by the hundreds, and most had ties back to Trump.