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Documents show the Biden administration had “no legitimate basis” for the use of law enforcement and counterterrorism resources on school board-related threats.

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American citizen Maria del Carmen Lopez, who was kidnapped in Mexico, according to the FBI, was last seen being forced into a white van, her daughter says.

Bradford Ferrick allegedly had "thousands" of images and videos of child pornography, according to prosecutors, who allege he used hidden cameras to record medical exams.

Linda Martin and hundreds of others had their life savings seized by the FBI in a raid on a California safe deposit company. Two years, later she's seeking justice.

Officials are looking for any new victims of Dr. Mona Ghosh, a Hoffman Estates doctor recently indicted for health care fraud.

Three women went missing in Mexico three weeks ago while traveling. The daughter of one of the women still believes her mother will be found.

The U.S. Virgin Islands' homicide rate exceeds that of the mainland United States and even big cities like Chicago, but investigations can move slowly.

Defense attorneys have demanded an FBI agent list cereal names, made wild claims about misconduct and repeatedly called for mistrials, slowing down the trial.

The daughter of one of two sisters from Texas who went missing in Mexico along with their friend three weeks ago says she hasn’t lost hope that they’ll be located.

Maria del Carmen Lopez, 63, was kidnapped from her home in Pueblo Nuevo in the Mexican state of Colima on Feb. 9, according to the FBI.

Police and the FBI in California are searching for a suspect who crashed a helicopter at the Sacramento Executive Airport early Wednesday after attempting to steal the aircraft.

A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City has been arrested on charges that he interfered with police officers who were trying to protect the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez proposed the plan in response to the jail's latest failed state inspection last month.

Larry Giberson was at the front line of the mob's fight against police in a tunnel when one of the officers was briefly crushed between rioters and tunnel doors, according to an affidavit.

Larry Fife Giberson, a 21-year-old Princeton University student from New Jersey, was arrested after being identified as a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

A Princeton University student was arrested Tuesday on charges that he joined other rioters in pushing against police officers guarding an entrance to the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack.

The FBI says Texas was one of the top four most impacted states in the country last year for the number of victims and for the amount of money that was lost.

Nationally, the number of hate crimes reported by the FBI increased from 8,120 in 2020 to 9,065 in 2021.

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A newly released FBI report shows the number of hate crimes in the U.S. jumped again in 2021, continuing an alarming rise.

The original release of the 2021 data was marred by low participation rates by law enforcement agencies across the country.

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The following is a transcript of an interview with cybersecurity expert and analyst Christopher Krebs that aired on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Between January 2023 and March 3, the FBI has received approximately 10 incident reports per month for school-centric threat, whether founded or unfounded. Swatting threats — so-named from the massive police and sometimes SWAT response they raise — ends up to be very costly, upwards in the six figures, experts say.

The moments after four Americans crossed the Mexican border where they were later kidnapped were caught on a Facebook live video, according to CNN.

A Maryland man who died in 2018 was identified as a suspect in the 1970 cold case murder of 16-year-old Pamela Lynn Conyers through DNA and genetic genealogy.

Two Rio Grande Valley women traveled across the Rio Grande into Mexico in late February but when they suddenly stopped sending updates to their family back home, they filed a missing persons report.

Maria Guadalupe Ramirez, 27, is waiting to hear news of her mother, Marina Perez Rios, 48. Ramirez’s mother, Marina, was a home healthcare provider who was on medical leave while she recovered from a surgery in September that removed a grapefruit-sized tumor from her uterus. While she healed, Marina started going to Mexico almost every weekend, her daughter said, to sell used clothing. Like many who let their guards down believing their innocence protects them, Marina started going to Mexico often. Ramirez wonders why the women, all native Nuevo Leon residents, would have taken a wrong turn.

Virginia Gov. Genn Youngkin accepted a challenge from Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, who suggested the two play a basketball game to determine the FBI headquarters' new home.

Families of the missing watch the U.S. effort to find the four citizens abducted in the border city and ask: Why aren't their cases getting the same attention?

A Michigan man who threatened Democratic politicians and members of the LGBTQ community was charged with a gun crime. The mentally ill man was making death threats on social media.

Korsiak allegedly agreed to the murder-for-hire plot of a fictitious Manhattan businessman in exchange for $50,000, a federal complaint said.

More than four months after the death of Shanquella Robinson, a 25-year-old Charlotte, N.C., woman who died under mysterious circumstances while on a trip to Mexico, lawyers for the family have accused the FBI of not doing enough to arrest a suspect, despite mounting evidence.

New suspects, including a pastor and a well-known gang leader, have been identified in the 2021 assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse.

Authorities in Haiti have identified new suspects in the July 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse

Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., accused the FBI of wrongly searching for his name in foreign surveillance data.

A two-year probe of law enforcement actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack found missed opportunities and weak risk-mitigation procedures.

Fox News host Sean Hannity reacts to a House hearing on the weaponization of the federal government and the testimony from 'Twitter Files' journalist Matt Taibbi on 'Hannity.'

President Joe Biden said that 'MAGA Republicans' want to defund police departments and the FBI at an event at the Finishing Trades Institute in Philadelphia, PA.

The Gulf Cartel claimed members of its organization who kidnapped and killed Americans at the border last week did so without approval, going against the gang's rules.

Jordan again spun a complex tale of the government conspiring to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. And again, there were significant problems with it.

House Democrats voted unanimously against legislation on Thursday that would bar federal officials from taking steps to police online speech, a response to the Twitter files.

Rep. Elise Stefanik demanded answers during a House Intelligence Committee hearing from FBI Director Chris Wray about the Hunter Biden laptop story and the Mar-a-Lago search.

Mexican authorities found 8-year-old Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez in Michoacán in February, after she had been missing since 2018. She was taken by her biological mother, according to the FBI.

A Republican lawmaker has accused the FBI of wrongly searching for his name in foreign surveillance data, underscoring the challenges ahead for U.S. officials trying to persuade Congress to renew their authorities to collect huge swaths of communications.

Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez's mother was arrested in 2019, but she remained missing – until this year.

Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez's mother was arrested in 2019, but she remained missing – until this year.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he and Speaker Kevin McCarthy are working together to determine how the personal information was compromised.

Mayo Gilbert McNeil, of Denver, allegedly sold and traded fake Michael Jordan cards, including 1986 rookie cards, for thousands of dollars and authentic rare cards.

Hackers have broken into a Washington, D.

During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, it was revealed that GOP Rep. Darin LaHood was the target of unlawful monitoring by the FBI.

A man is in custody on a murder charge for his alleged connection to the killing of 23-year-old Mary Louicile Willfong in 1989.

Cheryl Orange said she stayed in Texas with the group's luggage after forgetting her identification.

Former Assistant FBI Director Tom Fuentes told Fox News' 'Jesse Watters Primetime' it would be unwise and unsafe for Americans to go to Mexico on spring break.

Federal law enforcement doesn't appear to be investigating the former president's allies' attempts, some successful, to access election machines. Experts are alarmed.

Officials have informed members of the House and Senate and their staffs that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, D.

The FBI finds itself in a challenging moment as it conducts simultaneous investigations involving classified documents held by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

Officials say two survivors of a deadly abduction in Mexico are back on U.S. soil.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial Monday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has also gone missing.

U.S. and Mexican officials say four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week seeking health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped.

U.S. and Mexican officials say four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week seeking health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped.

Federal authorities say a Pennsylvania man admits packing explosive materials, fuses and a lighter into a suitcase he checked for a commercial flight to Florida.

Albania’s prime minister has denied that he bribed or gave preferential treatment to a former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official who has been indicted in the U.S. Edi Rama told Parliament Thursday that the opposition wanted “to politically exploit a legal process in the USA that has no links at all to Albania, the government or me personally.

Authorities say a man was arrested after an explosive was found in a bag checked onto a Florida-bound flight at an eastern Pennsylvania airport.

For the second day in a row, China is dismissing U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

A felon faces two charges after federal agents say he tried to board a plane with three guns, ammunition and a fake U.S. marshal's badge.

Members of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee on Feb. 27, 1973, starting a 71-day occupation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani will be joined by several federal, state, and local leaders to announce the results of a Harris County firearms initiative.

The family of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X has announced plans to sue agencies including the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and others for $100 million, accusing them of playing a role in his death.

Under court order, the FBI has released a trove of photos, videos, maps and other documents involving its secretive search for Civil War-era gold.

A law enforcement official says a bomb threat against an American Airlines flight that diverted the plane from the tarmac of a Texas airport Friday was not credible.

The U.S. military says it has ended its search for airborne objects that were shot down near Deadhorse, Alaska, and over Lake Huron on Feb. 10 and 12.

Jennifer and David McDaniel say their 14-year-old son, Evan, met someone online, recorded a compromising video of himself and shared it with who he thought was a girl. Only it wasn’t and they wanted money, or they would share the pictures.

The FBI has searched the University of Delaware in recent weeks for classified documents as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive government records by President Joe Biden.

Subpoenas have been sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued the subpoenas Wednesday as the latest in a series of escalations by a party that has long promised to investigate Big Tech’s content moderation.

Since Jacoby Pillow’s death last month, at least three others have died at Harris County Jail. And the year before, the jail hit a record-high of 27 in-custody deaths.

The FBI has accepted Sheriff Ed Gonzalez’s request to review two deaths that occurred inside the Harris County Jail, the sheriff’s office announced Monday.

The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it says are linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed U.S. airspace.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have in recent months turned over to federal investigators additional documents with classified markings as well as a laptop belonging to a Trump aide.

Paxton and the four whistleblowers asked the Texas Supreme Court to defer consideration of the case until they can finalize the settlement, after which they’ll move to end the case.

The FBI has discovered an additional document with classified markings at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home.

Republicans have opened a new inquiry with a brazen attempt to portray the federal government as weaponized against Americans.

The Biden administration says the China balloon shot down by the U.S. was equipped to collect intelligence signals as part of a huge, military-linked aerial spy program that has targeted more than 40 countries.

After the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s launched a cartoon contest to mock Iran’s ruling cleric, a state-backed Iranian cyber unit struck back in early January with a hack-and-leak campaign intent on striking fear with the claimed pilfering of a big subscriber database.

The FBI has searched President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home as part of its investigation into potential high-level mishandling of classified records.

The FBI searched President Joe Biden’s former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington in November.

Jamaica’s government has turned to the FBI for help as it investigates a massive fraud case involving a private investment firm where $12.7 million belonging to renowned sprinter Usain Bolt has gone missing.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's office says someone scammed the Kansas Republican's reelection campaign out of $690,000 by getting his accounting firm to wire the money to fraudulent bank accounts.

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions.

Senior Democrats are expressing criticism of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president.

Another search, this one by the FBI at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, has turned up more material containing classified markings.

A new documentary looks into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

FBI Director Christopher Wray says he's “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was “not constrained by the rule of law.”.

One year later, there have been no arrests or charges filed related to the case. Cuellar maintains that he was never the target of the investigation and will ultimately be cleared of wrongdoing.

The founder of a California-based porn empire that coerced young women into filming adult videos has been arrested in Spain, three years after he fled while facing federal sex-trafficking charges.

An explosive increase in teenage boys targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending explicit pictures of themselves has the FBI sounding a public-safety alarm.

Authorities say a Minnesota man who told an FBI informant that he was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police was arrested this week as he tried to buy grenades.

A judge has handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

A hacker claims to have posed as the CEO of a financial institution to obtain access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard.