President Joe Biden said on Tuesday U.S. law enforcement agencies were taking steps to disrupt any domestic threat that may emerge after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas'
April 26, 2024
Data in the FBI's annual crime report released Monday shows that violent crime across the U.S. decreased last year, dropping to about the same level as before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
October 16, 2023
Violent crimes including murder and rape declined in the United States in 2022 from a year earlier, but property crimes rose during the same period, according to data published by the
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump is scheduled to be questioned under oath as part of lawsuits from two former FBI employees who provoked the former president’s outrage after sending each other pejorative text messages about him
October 17, 2023
The attack by Hamas on Israel will inspire the most significant terror threat to the U.S. since the rise of ISIS nearly a decade ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray
April 26, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S. He told lawmakers on Tuesday that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks
October 31, 2023
FBI agents searched the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' chief election campaign fundraiser, Brianna Suggs, on Thursday, and she was questioned by public
April 26, 2024
A woman interviewed by FBI agents says they are investigating allegations of wrongdoing by a Texas sheriff who faced complaints of corruption for years before drawing broader scrutiny for his response to a mass shooting
November 03, 2023
A bipartisan team of U.S. lawmakers has introduced new legislation intended to curb the FBI's sweeping surveillance powers, saying the bill helps close the
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
July 02, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray is making a fresh push to Congress to authorize a spy program that Biden administration says is vital to preventing terrorism, catching spies and disrupting cyberattacks
November 15, 2023
The FBI warned organizations to guard against the Scattered Spider hacking group, which has breached dozens of American organizations over the past year,
April 26, 2024
The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack
November 23, 2023
A federal watchdog is investigating how the Biden administration chose the site for a new FBI headquarters following a contentious competition marked by allegations of conflict of interest from the bureau’s director
November 30, 2023
Police are searching for two people after an FBI agent was carjacked in Washington D
November 30, 2023
FBI Director Christopher Wray will press a Senate committee on Tuesday to renew the authority of the U.S. government to conduct warrantless surveillance
April 26, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray is making a fresh pitch for the reauthorization of a U.S. government surveillance tool set to expire at the end of the year
December 05, 2023
FBI Director Christopher Wray will visit India next week, officials said, days after Washington accused an Indian government official of directing an unsuccessful plot to
April 26, 2024
A federal judge is ordering Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to turn over more than 1,600 texts and emails to FBI agents investigating efforts to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss
December 20, 2023
Bomb threats and false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials, state capitols and courthouses have surged in recent weeks, including some connected to court cases against former president Donald Trump
December 29, 2023
Three years after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Washington’s federal courthouse is flooded with trials, guilty plea hearings and sentencings stemming from the largest criminal investigation in American history
January 05, 2024
U.S. authorities including the Federal Bureau of Investigation are probing a fake post made on the Securities and Exchange Commission's account on X,
July 02, 2024
A man convicted in 2010 of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues, a Jewish community center and shoot down military planes, was ordered to be released
April 26, 2024
The Justice Department plans to send additional law enforcement resources to help Washington, D.C., battle the perpetrators of violent crime and carjackings, the department said
July 02, 2024
The FBI says an 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting during the Great Depression
January 26, 2024
FBI Director Chris Wray is preparing to tell House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States
January 31, 2024
Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, preparing to cause "real-world harm" to Americans, FBI
April 26, 2024
During years of scrutiny from prosecutors, Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to deflect attention from himself by making the personal lives of investigators ripe for derision and ridicule
February 05, 2024
The FBI says a contract worker stole an agent’s car from the bureau headquarters in Washington and tried to get into a restricted facility before he was arrested
February 07, 2024The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of key leaders in the Hive ransomware organized crime group
April 26, 2024
U.S. authorities on Friday said they had seized websites used to sell cybercriminals malware called "Warzone RAT" that could be used to steal data from victims'
April 26, 2024
A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier, enabling his sex
May 07, 2024
A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced to more than two years in prison for concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government
February 16, 2024
A former FBI official was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for hiding $225,000 in payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer while serving in a
April 26, 2024
Prosecutors say a former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with officials affiliated with Russian intelligence
February 20, 2024
A Southern California shopping center was closed following reports of an explosion
February 21, 2024
Defense lawyers say a former FBI informant accused of lying about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and purportedly having links to Russian intelligence has been taken back into the custody of U.S. Marshals
February 22, 2024
A federal judge in California will consider whether a former FBI informant charged with lying about a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family must remain behind bars while he awaits trial
February 23, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray says the U.S. expects to confront fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before
February 29, 2024
FBI agents searched the New York City home of a senior policy adviser to Mayor Eric Adams early on Thursday, according to News 12.
April 26, 2024
An FBI informant who was once held up by Republicans as a credible source of information about Hunter Biden now finds himself charged with lying to federal authorities
March 02, 2024
Less than a month after his victory, President-elect Donald Trump has assembled a team ready to carry out two of his biggest priorities:
December 04, 2024
Federal investigators are again searching a troubled women’s prison in California, seizing computers and documents in an apparent escalation of a yearslong sexual abuse investigation that led to previous charges against a former warden and other employees
March 11, 2024
Homicides across the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in 2023, according to FBI data released this week, declining for the second consecutive year after a precipitous spike during the
April 26, 2024
New FBI statistics show violent crime in the U.S. dropping again last year, continuing a downward trend after a pandemic-era spike
March 20, 2024
Three boys, ages 11, 12 and 16, and dubbed the “Little Rascals,” have been arrested for robbing a bank in Houston
March 20, 2024The FBI is telling people who were on board the Boeing 737 Max that lost a panel in midflight that they might be victims of a crime
March 22, 2024
Lawyers for convicted killer Alex Murdaugh want to release to the public statements he made to the FBI about what happened to million of dollars he stole from clients and his law firm
March 28, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a would-be intruder who tried to ram his car through the front gate of the agency's Atlanta field office on Monday, according to FBI
April 01, 2024The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar
April 17, 2024
The Senate has voted to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse
April 20, 2024
The U.S.
April 23, 2024
The FBI has determined that a young Black man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a rural Missouri home, not at the hands of the white homeowner who had a history of racist social media postings
April 24, 2024
A former employee of the U.S.
April 29, 2024A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors
April 29, 2024
The FBI says scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year
April 30, 2024
The number of FBI searches of a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about Americans and people in the United States plummeted over the last year from the prior 12 months, according to a U.S. government report released Tuesday
April 30, 2024U.S. officials are urging telecommunication companies to boost network security following a Chinese hacking operation that gave officials in Beijing access to the private texts and phone conversations of Americans
December 03, 2024A Russian national pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying to the FBI about his participation in an organization that U.S. prosecutors said was controlled by sanctioned Russian
May 01, 2024A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family
May 02, 2024
A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that several of his co-workers in the intelligence community were part of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
May 03, 2024
The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is behind his estranged wife's disappearance in Spain, but gave no indication about what they believe happened to her
May 07, 2024
Donald Trump demanded that federal prosecutors reveal details about how they handled boxes seized during a search of his Florida home in 2022 as he seeks to
May 22, 2024
A senior FBI official says the agency is concerned that foreign adversaries could deploy artificial intelligence as a way to interfere in American elections and spread disinformation
May 09, 2024
Forty years ago, on Dec. 8, 1984, one of the largest manhunts in FBI history came to an explosive end on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound
December 03, 2024
By Gram Slattery, Sarah N.
June 03, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has pointed to standard language used in an unsealed FBI document to baselessly claim the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search for documents at his Florida estate in 2022
May 22, 2024
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June 08, 2024
A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI accused of spying for China for at least a decade has pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Honolulu
May 24, 2024
Federal prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution
May 24, 2024
By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON - An Israeli private investigator sought by the United States over hack-for-hire allegations previously told colleagues that he had been questioned by
June 11, 2024
Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump’s orbit as a loyal supporter who shares the president-elect’s skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community
December 03, 2024
By Sarah N.
June 13, 2024
A former FBI employee who accused the bureau of politicizing its work has seen his security clearance restored
June 04, 2024A jury has ended a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of seven Minnesotans accused of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to steal more than $40 million meant to feed children
June 05, 2024
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has served nearly 50 years in prison for the killing of two FBI agents, was scheduled to have his first parole hearing since
June 26, 2024The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime though one expert says the declines are likely overstated
June 11, 2024
Eight individuals from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days
June 11, 2024
A woman armed with a handgun has been taken into custody after an hourlong standoff at the FBI building in Seattle
June 12, 2024A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI special agent who had been involved in an investigation into the dissemination of personal data from Hunter Biden’s laptop
June 13, 2024
A Texas man was charged on Thursday with threatening to jail or "slaughter" an FBI agent over the criminal case against President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors said.
June 28, 2024
Federal authorities have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the man they believe raped and murdered two women in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park almost three decades ago
June 20, 2024
Full-time residents of Ruidoso will be allowed to return home Monday as federal authorities seek to prosecute whoever started a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of buildings and homes
June 23, 2024
A federal prosecutor in the classified documents case of Donald Trump has clashed with the judge as he faced skeptical questioning over a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation
June 24, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified-documents case reacted skeptically on Monday to a request from prosecutors to bar the former
July 03, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case indicated on Tuesday that she was unlikely to grant his lawyers' request to exclude
June 25, 2024
Bulgaria will press charges against fugitive Ruja Ignatova, the so-called Cryptoqueen who co-founded a cryptocurrency scheme that regulators believe defrauded investors of more
June 26, 2024A New Mexico judge plans to rule on a request to dismiss the sole charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer over concerns the FBI damaged the relevant firearm during forensic testing before defense attorneys could examine it
June 28, 2024
A silver pocket watch that belonged to President Theodore Roosevelt is back on public display at his home and national park site in New York, nearly four decades after it was stolen
June 28, 2024
Opinion: I am grateful to the FBI. It’s in that spirit that I say they’re getting this wrong
July 01, 2024Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier denied parole for 1975 killings of 2 FBI agents
July 02, 2024
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Tuesday after serving nearly five decades in federal prison in the 1975 killing of two FBI agents, a conviction that his
July 02, 2024
In a new 30-page filing with several never-before-seen images, Jack Smith's team pushed back on former President Donald Trump's effort to toss the classified documents case against him based on how materials found in boxes were handled by investigators during the FBI's 2022 Mar-a-Lago search.
June 25, 2024
Mass shootings tend to increase around July Fourth. These are the warning signs FBI profilers say you should watch for
July 03, 2024
Justice Department watchdog concludes yearslong probe into FBI actions after 2016 standoff with protesters in Oregon
July 09, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the "subject involved" in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, it
July 14, 2024
Investigators are hunting for any clues about what may have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump
July 14, 2024
CNN's Tom Foreman reports on how the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump unfolded and what happened after.
July 26, 2024
By Sarah N.
July 15, 2024
FBI has accessed Trump rally shooter’s phone but investigators are struck by lack of leads
July 15, 2024
Ex-FBI informant accused of lying about Biden family seeks to dismiss charges, citing decision in Trump documents case
July 16, 2024
FBI and DHS warn of potential ‘follow-on or retaliatory attacks’ following Trump assassination attempt
July 16, 2024
19 lost minutes: Law enforcement failed to keep sight of Trump shooter, whose motive is still unclear to investigators
July 18, 2024
New details released in ‘murder-for-hire’ scheme involving developer who killed self following FBI raid in Coral Gables
July 18, 2024
FBI seeking fedora-wearing "Derby Desperado" in Dallas and Garland bank heists
July 18, 2024
Authorities say a Georgia man is facing federal charges of threatening to kill the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
July 18, 2024Trump’s would-be assassin researched previous mass shooter Ethan Crumbley and his family before attack
July 19, 2024Several Republican U.S. senators said on Sunday they would back President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Kash Patel to head the FBI, an early show of
December 01, 2024
Federal investigators say a wildfire that burned more than 12 square miles in southern New Mexico last month was human caused and two people may be to blame
July 22, 2024The man who tried to kill former President Donald Trump conducted online research about how Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated former President John F.
July 24, 2024
The FBI has searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
July 24, 2024Government to pay former FBI officials $2 million in settlements over release of anti-Trump texts
July 26, 2024
Two former FBI officials have settled lawsuits with the Justice Department to resolve claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump
July 26, 2024
Police in France investigating the sabotage of high-speed rail lines hours before the Paris Olympics' Opening Ceremony have asked the U.S.
August 07, 2024
Defense Department contractor arrested and charged with mishandling classified documents
August 10, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign said it was notified by the FBI last month that it was "targeted by a foreign actor influence operation," a campaign official
August 13, 2024A Muslim advocacy group filed a lawsuit on Monday against the FBI and leaders of other U.S. government agencies over what it called the discriminatory and
August 12, 2024US concludes Iran is behind hacking attempts targeting Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns
August 19, 2024
The FBI earlier this month searched the homes of two Americans with ties to Russian state media, including a former United Nations weapons inspector and an
August 22, 2024
The head of the FBI says America is facing heightened threats from many corners at a time when law enforcement agencies are struggling
August 22, 2024
By Sarah N.
August 23, 2024
Preacher wanted by FBI on sex crime charges evades Philippine police as followers resist in dayslong standoff
August 27, 2024
FBI discovered a DHS document describing improvised explosive devices during investigation of Trump’s would-be assassin
August 29, 2024
When a crate escorted by the FBI from New York was opened this week at the national museum of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, Kaitip Kami instantly recognised the
August 29, 2024
The Justice Department watchdog says the FBI has failed to report some child sexual abuse allegations to local law enforcement or social service agencies even after changes prompted by its handling of the case against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar
August 29, 2024
FBI continues to fail child sex abuse victims despite reforms after bungled Nassar investigation, watchdog finds
August 29, 2024
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August 29, 2024
Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival
August 31, 2024
"The Order", a movie about a violent, white supremacist movement in 1980s America is worryingly relevant today and shows the need to be on constant guard against
August 31, 2024
A former mafia hitman who was already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years in custody on Friday for the killing of notorious Boston mobster James "Whitey"
September 06, 2024
An alleged Chinese agent went undetected in New York state government for years. Why it may have taken so long for authorities to act
September 08, 2024
Losses from cryptocurrency-related frauds and scams increased 45% in 2023 from 2022, totaling more than $5.6 billion, as scammers increasingly took advantage of the speed
September 09, 2024
Crypto-related fraud jumped by 45% last year, FBI says
September 09, 2024
Donald Trump’s drive to upend the FBI is being welcomed by Republican senators
December 01, 2024
Trump plans to replace current FBI director with firebrand Kash Patel, drawing bipartisan fire
December 01, 2024
(This Nov. 30 story has been corrected to change the name of DEA to Administration, not Agency, in paragraph 20) By Sarah N.
December 01, 2024
A former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI who received cash, golf clubs and other expensive gifts in exchange for spying for China has been sentenced to a decade in prison
September 11, 2024
A U.S. Army soldier has been arrested in Hawaii on charges that he repeatedly struck a police officer with a flagpole during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago
September 11, 2024
New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned on Thursday, a week after FBI agents seized his phone as part of multiple federal corruption
September 12, 2024
Kash Patel has called for radical changes at the FBI and was a fierce and vocal critic of the bureau’s work as it investigated ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
December 01, 2024
A former security guard at a federal building in New York City where the FBI has its offices has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge related to the sexual assault of an asylum seeker
September 13, 2024The FBI said on Sunday it was assessing the credibility of threats against Haitians at Wittenberg University following baseless claims by Republican presidential
September 15, 2024
The FBI says former President Donald was the target of what appeared to be “an attempted assassination” at his West Palm Beach golf club in Florida
September 16, 2024
Inside the fateful 12 hours of an apparent assassination attempt outside the Trump International Golf Club
September 17, 2024
Suspicious packages sent to election officials in at least 6 states
September 17, 2024U.S. law enforcement has disrupted a second major Chinese hacking group nicknamed "Flax Typhoon" and wrested thousands of compromised devices from its grasp, FBI Director
September 18, 2024
FBI Director Chris Wray says the FBI has disrupted a group of hackers working at the direction of the Chinese government who targeted universities, government agencies and other organizations
September 18, 2024
FBI says it has disrupted major Chinese hacking operation that threatened US critical infrastructure
September 18, 2024
‘Another day in Miami’: FBI raids luxury home with long guns, tactical gear
September 19, 2024Two gunshots, a fatal stabbing, and the mystery man of the Capitol riot
September 20, 2024
"Pig butchering," an account-draining cryptocurrency scam, prompts FBI warning
September 20, 2024
Chelsea Walsh was in Kyiv as a nurse and aid worker in the early days of the war in Ukraine
September 21, 2024
Feds execute search warrant on new NYPD commissioner just over a week after he was appointed
September 22, 2024
Violent crime in the US dropped again in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike
September 23, 2024
By Sarah N.
September 23, 2024
Did you know violent crime is down? Not if you’re watching right-wing media
September 24, 2024
An FBI agent who interviewed two former Memphis police officers who are on trial in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols’ has testified that they accepted accountability for participating
September 26, 2024
Number of Oklahoma seniors getting scammed out of savings increasing
September 26, 2024Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is returning this weekend to the town where an assassin's bullet grazed his ear in July
October 02, 2024
U.S. authorities have charged five Chinese nationals with lying and trying to cover their tracks
October 02, 2024
A Montana man has been convicted of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
October 02, 2024
Domestic extremists with ‘election-related grievances’ could turn to violence in final weeks of election, FBI and DHS warn
October 04, 2024
FBI helps woman defy the odds of obtaining 2nd lung transplant
October 04, 2024
US security officials warn of potential threats surrounding October 7th anniversary
October 04, 2024
Internal emails dispute Trump’s claims that FBI had ‘free rein’ to probe Kavanaugh allegations, new report says
October 08, 2024
The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. That's according to a Justice Department announcement Tuesday
October 08, 2024
By Sarah N.
October 09, 2024
Federal officials say Trump was not in danger after man arrested with illegal weapons near campaign rally in California
October 14, 2024
A former Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been charged with running a drug trafficking ring that authorities say shipped vast amounts of cocaine across the Americas and killed four people
October 17, 2024
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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