Biden loses bid to block highly ‘personal’ conversations with ghostwriter in 2016 and 2017

Joe Biden dropped a lawsuit seeking to block the release of 2016-2017 audio recordings with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. A divided appeals court panel ruled the public interest in disclosing the material outweighed Biden's privacy concerns, allowing the recordings to be released to a Republican-led congressional committee. The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur during an investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents.