A Virginia National Guard sergeant accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

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A historian has been charged with stealing the dog tags of U.S. servicemen whose planes crashed in World War II from the National Archives and selling them on eBay. The U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland says in a news release ...

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WASHINGTON — The creator and star of the musical “Hamilton” will appear alongside two other creative forces of the Broadway smash at the National Archives Foundation’s upcoming annual gala. The Washington Post reports that Lin-Manuel Miranda will join director Thomas ...

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FBI and National Archive officials are returning to their rightful owners more than 10,000 important historical documents seized during a massive theft investigation involving a well-known collector of presidential memorabilia. Barry Landau and assistant Jason Savedoff were caught stealing documents ...

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WASHINGTON — Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation’s monuments in Washington, New ...

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WASHINGTON — When investigators seeking stolen historical documents showed up to search the apartment of a New York presidential memorabilia collector they brought just a few boxes. They ended up having rent a truck to haul away items, an investigator ...

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WASHINGTON — When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was only one original record of that 1937 interview of Ruth on a hunting trip, ...

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NEW YORK — Documents obtained by The Associated Press have shown that the U.S. government agency tasked with releasing the digitized records of the 1940 census badly underestimated their popularity. The newly released U.S. census was such a hot item ...

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Federal investigators said Wednesday they are reaching out to collectors and dealers, hoping to find more historic documents stolen by a disgraced presidential memorabilia collector. Barry Landau, 63, and his 24-year-old assistant, Jason Savedoff, both from New York City, pleaded ...

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A guilty plea from a presidential memorabilia collector and author in a scheme to steal from unsuspecting archives for profit leaves investigators with a hunt for the owners of thousands of documents. More than 10,000 documents were seized from Barry ...

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