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The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files flap is cascading, further roiling a Justice Department and FBI that have struggled for months to appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base.
The Justice Department appeared to acknowledge in an unusual statement this week the existence of investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.
A Blue Alert has been issued and the FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man, considered the last suspect on the run following an attack on law enforcement outside a North Texas ICE detention center.
Houston FBI agents have arrested Xu Zewei, a suspected hacker linked to China’s Ministry of State Security, in Milan for allegedly stealing COVID-19 research data.
The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using AI-driven technology.
Houston residents Leopoldo Perrault Benitez, 53, Anthony Benitez, 32, Isaac Sierra, 51, and Jose Angel Muniz, 51, La Porte, made their initial appearances before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Bray, at which time the indictment was unsealed. They were ordered into custody pending further criminal proceedings.
A military veteran has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to attack an FBI office and assassinate law enforcement officers.
Court records claim Liren "Ryan" Lai worked with another resident from China who lives in California to do "dead drop" payments of cash to gather intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases."
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of more files related to the New York financier.
A man, who authorities say was in the United States illegally, is one of 16 Venezuelan nationals facing federal drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Law enforcement officials are offering a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of an alleged leader of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The Department of Homeland Security is warning of a heightened threat environment following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
The Supreme Court is giving an Atlanta family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI a new day in court.
The FBI under the leadership of Director Kash Patel has made fighting violent crime and illegal immigration top priorities.
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.
Two scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S. Investigators say the pathogen can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people.
Investigators said the dubbed "Call Me Maybe Menace" tried to rob Woodforest National Bank in Crosby. Here's how you can help them find him.
The FBI says a man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd that had assembled to raise attention for Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies.
An FBI analyst in Houston, Brian Vincent Rausch, has been arrested and released on bond after being charged with possessing over a thousand child sexual abuse images, including AI-generated ones.
FBI Houston said Edward Wayne Rene was sentenced to 8 years in prison for theft of a public servant and sexual performance by a minor.
Former FBI director James Comey says that he’s still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of shells arranged in the sand led to allegations from Donald Trump among others that he was calling for the president’s assassination and to an interview with the Secret Service."
Investigators are combing through the writings of a 25-year-old man believed responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Southern California fertility clinic over the weekend.
Officials have increased the reward for the capture of seven escaped New Orleans inmates.
Three days after a 10 men escaped a New Orleans jail by slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall, seven of them remain on the run.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been interviewed by the Secret Service about a social media post that Republicans suggested was a call for violence against President Donald Trump.
Federal authorities say they arrested a 19-year-old man who is accused of planning an attack on a U.S. Army site in Michigan on behalf of Islamic State.
FBI Director Kash Patel is pledging to make the bureau’s mission “work on whatever budget we’re given."
Another suspect has been charged in the 2020 Bar 5015 explosion following the arrest of the former co-owner of the Turkey Leg Hut, Lyndell “Lynn” Price, and others.
The FBI has arrested a man on child pornography charges who they say is linked to a man previously arrested for filming himself and others sexually assaulting a child in the bathroom at the Galleria Mall.
New federal statistics show a steep decrease in the number of times the FBI searched a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about Americans and others in the United States last year.
Jennifer Jesselle Perez Rodriguez, accused of threatening a federal agent with a machete in south Houston, will remain in custody pending trial.
Federal investigators are boarding cruise ships nearly every week at the Port of Galveston to investigate crimes committed in international waters, KPRC 2 News has learned, as the Texas port experiences record-breaking passenger volumes.
Jennifer Jesselle Perez Rodriguez, 33, was shot by an FBI agent after allegedly threatening federal agents with a machete during an unaccompanied child welfare check.
A former California Highway Patrol captain has been federally charged after he allegedly slapped a male flight attendant’s buttocks during a cross-country flight headed to Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump's administration is conducting a massive, multi-agency review of 450,000 migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents during President Joe Biden’s term.
Showing up to the home in a gym tank top, Andres Fernandez De La Paz allegedly shot 34-year-old Ediesky Incencio Pineiro in the chest.
The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
Iraqi officials announced the arrest of an ISIS member who allegedly incited the New Orleans truck attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens more on New Year’s Day.
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to rule narrowly in favor of a family trying to hold law enforcement accountable in court after an FBI raid that wrongly targeted their Atlanta home.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a yearslong legal battle over an FBI raid on the wrong Atlanta house.
An FBI-involved shooting in southwest Houston is under investigation after federal agents shot a woman in the parking lot of Del Papa Food Store on Milan Drive. T
U.S. officials say a new intelligence assessment finds no coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and the Venezuelan government.
Mariska Hargitay reuniting with her old partner, Detective Elliot Stabler, on “Law & Order: Organized Crime” and Jude Law sporting a mustache and an American accent to play an FBI agent are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has formed a task force to consider big changes to America's spy agencies.
FBI Director Kash Patel was quietly removed weeks ago as the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and has been replaced with the Army secretary.
Officials in Houston are asking for the public’s help identifying the man behind an “April Fools’ Day” foiled bank robbery in southwest Houston. The man allegedly threatened his own family during the attempted heist.
Wayne Gretzky says he has no political power or pull with the U.S. president or Canada's prime minister in his first public comments on the issue since Donald Trump began his second term.
Daniel Byrd, a former high school teacher in Texas, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) via online platforms.
Jaysha Victorian, a 23-year-old from Houston, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after exploiting her position at a bank contractor to fraudulently credit prepaid debit cards with $8.6 million.
Wayne Gretzky witnessed Alex Ovechkin scoring his 893rd goal to move one back of tying his NHL record, as the Canadian great made his first in-person appearance during this chase.
Authorities did not say how the individuals arrested in Hays County may be tied to the Venezuelan gang. It was also unclear what criminal charges people may face, though drugs were seized.
The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.
FBI Director Kash Patel may not have been part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans.
President Donald Trump is downplaying the texting of attack plans to a group chat that included a journalist as “the only glitch in two months” of his administration.
ICE agents were seen detaining several people at Frida's Sports Bar, loading them into vans before heading to an ICE facility. We're told the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission (TABC) is leading the case but it's unclear if ICE was responsible for those in custody.
Harris County Precinct 4 deputies, in collaboration with the FBI Houston Safe Streets Task Force, executed narcotics search warrants at two locations in Harris County, seizing large quantities of illegal drugs.
An FBI agent who has criticized the bureau was arrested this week on charges of illegally disclosing classified information.
Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.
Unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.
FBI Director Kash Patel applauded Mexican authorities Tuesday for the arrest and handover of one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” suspects, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador.
The Justice Department has announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group.
The FBI and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning email users against a dangerous ransomware scheme.
A Katy man has been arrested after an FBI raid uncovered more than 50 firearms in his possession, a violation of federal law due to his status as a convicted felon.
Police in the Dominican Republic say the FBI has joined the search for a 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing nearly a week ago while on spring break.
A federal judge has ruled that FBI Agent Gavin Lappe was negligent in the 2018 fatal shooting of Ulises Valladares during a rescue attempt in Houston, awarding the Valladares family nearly $2 million in damages.
There’s a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who is wanted for running a multi-national drug trafficking network and planning multiple murders related to the drug ring.
President Donald Trump says he is suspending the security clearances of attorneys at a prominent law firm involved in launching since-discredited opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into any ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau will work to “zero out” the population of Americans detained or held hostage in foreign countries.
The Trump administration published a list of more than 440 federal properties it identified to close or sell, including the FBI headquarters and the main Department of Justice building, after deeming them “not core to government operations.”.
The head of the FBI’s New York field office who was reported to have resisted Justice Department efforts to scrutinize agents who participated in politically sensitive investigations has told coworkers that he has retired from the bureau after being directed to do so.
The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hackers of conducting one of the largest known thefts of cryptocurrency — worth some $1.5 billion — from a Dubai-based firm.
As a popular right-wing podcaster, President Donald Trump's new deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, has made many public comments about the agency he's about to help lead.
As they mustered support for their confirmations by the U.S. Senate, some of Donald Trump’s nominees made statements from which they’ve already distanced themselves upon taking office.
New FBI Director Kash Patel was sworn in Monday as acting chief of the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, taking the helm of two separate and sprawling Justice Department agencies, according to a person familiar with the matter.
A former U.S. Secret Service agent who has penned best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast has been chosen to serve as FBI deputy director.
New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
The FBI in Las Vegas says a woman lured at least four older men on online dating apps to meet in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme.
The Spring Branch ISD Police Chief is sharing more information after two teenage girls were arrested in a plot to harm students at Memorial High School using guns and pipe bombs.
The Senate has narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as as President Donald Trump's FBI director.
Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with allegedly orchestrating burglaries at the homes of prominent professional athletes around the country.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier was defiant toward the government but grateful to his family and supporters as they welcomed him home to North Dakota, one day after his release from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.
President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded an FBI task force focused on investigating foreign influence campaigns and placed on leave several election security employees at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency.
The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files.
A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of agents at the bureau.
