F.B.I. Is Searching Biden’s Vacation Home in Delaware

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. is conducting a search of President Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., the president’s personal lawyer said on Wednesday morning, as investigators continue looking into his possession of classified documents.

The search, like at least two others conducted at locations associated with Mr. Biden, was undertaken with the cooperation of the president and his legal team. It was not clear whether any documents were recovered at the beach house.

“Today, with the president’s full support and cooperation, the D.O.J. is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Del.,” Bob Bauer, Mr. Biden’s personal lawyer, said in statement. “Under D.O.J.’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate.”

Mr. Bauer added that he would provide “further information at the conclusion of today’s search.”

The F.B.I. action is the latest in a series of revelations that Mr. Biden — who sharply criticized former President Donald J. Trump’s mishandling of classified government files at his residence in Florida — kept materials that should have been returned to the National Archives after he left office in January 2017.

A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.

On Tuesday, news media outlets, including The Times, reported that the F.B.I. had conducted a similar search at a Washington think tank, the Penn-Biden Center, in mid-November after the president’s aides discovered a small cache of classified documents there that month.