The FBI says it has disrupted a plot to attack a North Carolina grocery store on New Year’s Eve, arresting a man who officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group and pledged his loyalty to the extremist militants.
The surge of federal officers this week in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.
The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.
The Justice Department says that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.
A serial sniper was responsible for killing two armored truck couriers during a surge in commercial robberies in 2016. Intensive surveillance and a coordinated sting stopped a third attack, resulting in the death of Redrick Batiste and life sentences for his accomplices.
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he’ll resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.
Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.
A federal judge says the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director.
FBI Houston is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect dubbed the “Cougar Campus Crook” who robbed a TDECU bank on the University of Houston campus on October 28
Ramanan Pathmanathan, described as one of the most prolific child predators and sextortionists, was extradited to the U.S. and faces multiple federal charges, including exploitation of minors from Texas and other states.
The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors.
A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
Top law enforcement officials in the Trump administration had a clear message when they announced the arrest of a man charged with placing pipe bombs outside political party headquarters in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021.
The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack confessed to the act in interviews with investigators.
Clear Creek High School reportedly evacuated its students and faculty Friday morning after there was a bomb threat.
The FBI has arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack.
Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy “illegal orders” say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews.
The teenage stepbrother of an 18-year-old woman who died on a Carnival cruise ship is a suspect in the FBI investigation, according to court papers filed this week.
The mysterious death of a high school student on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month is drawing international attention and intense speculation on social media.
A federal judge says the Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” when it secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
Porter woman indicted for allegedly defrauding a Hurricane Harvey relief program to get a $435,000 home. She also allegedly threatened a witness and assaulted a federal officer.
The Justice Department has embarked on a fresh investigation into one of President Donald Trump’s chief grievances, issuing a flurry of subpoenas related to the U.S. government’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Authorities have charged two more young men in a sprawling federal investigation of an alleged terrorism-style attack planned for suburban Detroit.
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of former FBI Director James Comey to produce materials from the investigation, saying he’s concerned the Justice Department’s position had been to “indict first" and investigate second.
The FBI has continued its personnel purge, forcing out additional agents and supervisors tied to the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election despite efforts by Washington’s top federal prosecutor to try to stop at least some of the terminations.
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to reject James Comey’s claim that his prosecution amounts to political retribution.
Two men have been charged with terrorism-related crimes in the Detroit area after federal authorities made arrests and seized a cache of weapons last week in a storage unit and elsewhere.
A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four others planned a terror attack on Halloween weekend.
A recent FBI-led raid at an Idaho race track shows how immigration is driving federal law enforcement under the Trump administration.
Federals prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.”.
Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents.
President Donald Trump has suggested he’s entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated.
Authorities have now arrested nine people in connection with a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, where six people died.
The FBI said a fifth person has been arrested in a weekend shooting in Mississippi that left six people dead and more than a dozen injured.
The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump.
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.
An ex-Marine smashed a pickup into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Michigan, opened fire and set the building ablaze during a crowded Sunday service and then was fatally shot by police.
Now that it’s secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department faces the significantly tougher task of building a case it can prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies.
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents the first criminal case against a perceived adversary of President Donald Trump so far in this administration.
The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents.
The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment as soon as Thursday against former FBI Director James Comey on allegations that he lied to Congress as prosecutors approach a legal deadline for bringing charges.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has ordered a senior U.S. Justice Department official to drop an inquiry into a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit involving Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
President Donald Trump has announced his nomination of Lindsey Halligan as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In 2023, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the temple while a monk and three others were inside, sparking a fire.
DON'T FALL FOR IT! “The Harris County District Clerk’s Office does not send text messages requesting payment for court costs or fees. Let alone do we collect any payments for toll or traffic violations,” said District Clerk Burgess.
FBI Director Kash Patel has defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as he returned to Capitol Hill for a second day to face intense questioning from Democrats over his promises of transparency surrounding the convicted wealthy financier’s case.
Officials say a man who rammed a car into an FBI security gate in Pittsburgh and covered it in an American flag Wednesday said he was making a statement.
President Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.
The Memphis mayor says President Donald Trump’s TV announcement was the first hard confirmation he received that Trump would send in the National Guard to address crime.
FBI Director Kash Patel is bracing for scrutiny over his leadership of the Charlie Kirk investigation and other areas when he appears before Congress this coming week for oversight hearings.
At least six historically Black colleges and universities received threats or “potential” threats Thursday, prompting lockdowns and class cancellations.
Two people detained and released after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have faced threats and scrutiny even after police said they were not suspects.
The FBI branch of Salt Lake City has released surveillance images of a new person of interest in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus Wednesday afternoon.
Officials have released a new video of a person of interest in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college event in Orem, Utah.
Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration.
Prosecutors say a 24-year-old man with ties to white nationalist groups has pleaded guilty to charges that he attempted to use a drone to bomb a Nashville electricity substation.
The FBI seized phones, computer equipment and typed documents from the home of John Bolton as part of an investigation into whether President Donald Trump's first-term national security adviser mishandled government secrets.
Together, officials said the chemicals seized could have produced nearly 190,000 kilograms of meth, with an estimated street value of more than $569 million.
Two pastors were arrested on federal charges for allegedly running a $50 million labor trafficking and money laundering operation tied to their church network.
An off-duty METRO police officer is recovering in the hospital after crashing his motorcycle while assisting in an escort on Wednesday afternoon.
An FBI investigation is underway at a northwest Houston ministry on Wednesday morning, but officials are not sharing too many details due to how active the investigation is.
The Justice Department has reached settlements with a group of current and former FBI agents who have said they were disciplined for invoking their political beliefs or clashing with supervisors about approaches to investigations.
The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.
"We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities," U.S. Senator John Cornyn said in a statement.
President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries.
Officials have not disclosed details of a deadly shooting at the Meera Mexican Food Mart on Grand Avenue and shut down the roadway between 20th and 18th Street while they conduct their investigation.
15 individuals have been indicted on 29 first-degree felony charges resulting from an investigation into a sophisticated money laundering operation that moved more than $2.9 million through U.S.-based bank accounts.
FBI Director Kash Patel has provoked diplomatic discomfort in New Zealand by saying the opening of a new office in Wellington aims to counter China's influence.
Chilean authorities say they have turned six valuable watches stolen from Canadian actor Keanu Reeves over to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Officials did not share details related to the sexual assault, but confirmed with KPRC 2's Bryce Newberry they are investigating the crime on the cruise ship, which docked in Galveston.
Federal records related to the investigation into the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released.
Authorities thwarted the plan, which involved firearms and pipe bombs, after uncovering online threats earlier this year.
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
The final detainee who escaped in June from a New Jersey federal immigration detention center has been found in California.
A 36-year-old man named Velasquez-Nikki Saadia Porter pleaded guilty to federal charges for distributing nearly 200 grams of fentanyl from a motel room in North Harris County, Texas.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Houston field office and FBI Houston announced Thursday the creation of a Homeland Security Task Force in Houston to target growing threats from transnational criminal organizations in Southeast Texas.
Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey who as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan worked on cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, has told colleagues in a note that “fear is the tool of a tyrant” and that her firing without reason should fuel “a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”.
The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The FBI says the last suspect in an attack on law enforcement outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in North Texas on July 4 has been captured.
Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer questions Tuesday about investigate files related to Jeffrey Epstein and her clash with a top FBI official.
FBI Houston agents arrested Andrew David Sikes in Montgomery County for allegedly making a death threat to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, intending to impede and intimidate him in his official duties.
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.