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Special Report: At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’r...

Special Report: At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’r...

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Todd Blanche responds to a question as he testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination for deputy attorney general and Abigail Slater for assistant attorney general on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2025. After firing the head of the Library of Congress, the president put his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, in charge of the facility. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
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