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Updated at 5:15 p.m., on July 7. With the launch on Wednesday night of Twitter rival Threads, a new app from Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the federal records agency says its ...
A plan to sell a federal archive building in Seattle as soon as early next year has set off a fight between the Trump administration and regional historians, political leaders and Native Americans.
The National Archives and Records Administration facility in Seattle is earmarked for closure and to be sold in an effort to cut federal spending. The Office of Washington state’s Attorney ...
The National Archives is pushing back on claims made by former President Donald Trump, his lawyers and his allies over his retention of classified documents, for which he now faces a federal ...
Become a paid member to listen to this article. The Federal Archive Building is a ten-story Romanesque Revival-style red brick building in Manhattan’s West Village.It was built in stages between ...
Neither is a fit place to store records from Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Oregon that are currently housed at the Federal Archives and Records Center on Sand Point Way Northeast.
New records management provisions included in the recently enacted 2024 defense policy bill require federal agencies to organize and tag records related to what the government calls "unidentified ...
A conservative legal nonprofit sued the HHS for allowing the CDC to delete the emails of former employees, arguing the policy is an attempt to evade transparency.
The National Archives, built to safeguard America's heritage, holds more than 13.5 billion paper records. But it's been in the news lately for what was missing: certain presidential papers.
When I visited the National Archives rotunda, I stood in line behind a group of schoolchildren to file past the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the headwaters from which all federal records flow.
Naper Settlement will soon be able to digitize — and preserve — its trove of historical artifacts and records with the help of $800,000 in federal funds recently awarded to the effort.
Federal agencies in Alaska are being told not to send their records over because the archives center is running out of space, Judson said. The archives agency began seeking money in 2002 for a new ...