Maine Democrats are calling for Republican Sen. Susan Collins to account for a report that alleged she was the target of a federal investigation over campaign contributions.

The FBI says it is investigating a criminal hacking group’s claims that it had stolen “very sensitive data” belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that it had compromised the bureau’s jobs website.

Agents responded to Signal Pointe Apartments on Thursday. The FBI confirmed the subject is in custody and that there is no threat to public safety.

China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems.

Federal law enforcement warned the parents of Caleb Vazquez, one of two teenagers involved in a San Diego mosque shooting, about his concerning online comments days before the attack.

The Justice Department says it has seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas.

The FBI is no longer treating an applicant’s prior encounters with prostitutes as an automatic bar against employment.

Investigators are seeking to interview law enforcement officials in connection with the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a Florida-based inquiry aiming to establish a conspiracy against the Republican president.

A U.S. judge has blocked plans to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington.

The homicide rate in the United States dropped to the lowest it’s been in 75 years.

A 13-year-old was arrested after the FBI received a tip of a “mass casualty incident” that was set to take place this month, according to the Palm Bay Police Department.

An association of thousands of FBI agents is backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Michigan has joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on water systems but an official said all were operating “safely.”.

Authorities have released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in hopes that someone will recognize the writing style.

Authorities say cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota earlier this week.

An Afghan woman accused of supporting an Islamic State-inspired attack in the U.S. on Election Day in 2024 is the first person facing deportation through the Trump administration’s use of an obscure court that remained dormant for 30 years.

The FBI is warning parents about violent online criminal networks that specifically target vulnerable children through gaming platforms, social media apps, and messaging services.

Savannah Guthrie says her family is living a nightmare nearly six months after her mother's disappearance.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has received a collection of repatriated cultural artifacts from FBI Director Kash Patel during a meeting in Jakarta.

FBI Director Kash Patel has met with Cambodia's prime minister to discuss how to tackle online scams targeting victims worldwide.

On Wednesday, investigators revealed that 19 Florida residents have now pleaded guilty in a wide-ranging bank fraud conspiracy.

The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County.

The Supreme Court has declined to intervene after a judge ordered former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to be fined $800 a day.

The FBI has discounted some of the ransom notes that surfaced after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie as extortion attempts.

Hundreds of thousands are expected in Washington, D.C., for the 250th anniversary of the nation’s freedom.

“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal to viewers Tuesday.

New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky.

FBI agents have searched the office of an Ohio group that supports voter registration efforts, seizing documents and computer files.

The FBI has seized more than a dozen websites that officials say were part of a Chinese effort to target American workers who have access to classified or sensitive government information.

Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion.

Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

The upcoming World Cup will feature 48 teams and 104 matches across the United, Mexico, and Canada.

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel.

Police say a man held 10 people hostage inside a California office building before the FBI shot and killed him, bringing a more than 15-hour standoff to an end.

Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.

Officials say police are locked in negotiations with a man holding hostages inside a building that houses a Chase bank branch and school district office in the Southern California city of Bakersfield.

The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist who defected to Iran in 2013.

FBI Director Kash Patel has strongly denied allegations of excessive drinking on the job.

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba.

The FBI says the man who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March acted alone and there's no evidence he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group.

The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center has pleaded not guilty on behalf of the organization to charges that the civil rights group has defrauded donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups.

The federal government doesn't have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta.

The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter.

The FBI has searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop.

Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones who have gone missing or been killed.

Authorities have determined that buckshot from the gun of the man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump struck a Secret Service agent.

An 18-year-old Kentucky man who led police on a high-speed chase has been charged in a deadly bank robbery that left two people dead.

Federal authorities are investigating the death of a truck driver whose body was discovered in Georgia after he was last seen alive at a Florida rest stop.

Federal investigators say the man who carried out a mass shooting at Brown University and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor did not act randomly, but targeted places and people that held symbolic meaning tied to his perceived failures.

Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez was last seen in the early morning hours of April 17 at the Interstate 95 South Brevard County Rest Area in Grant-Valkaria.

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted again, this time over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials say constituted a threat against President Donald Trump.

The FBI’s Tampa office is asking anyone with photos or video from the Brevard County Rest Area in Grant-Valkaria on April 17 to help locate Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez.

A former FBI agent is offering the first detailed account of how investigators identified who carried out the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.

The New York Times says it has learned that the FBI investigated one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, after she wrote about its agents being assigned to protect and transport the girlfriend of that agency's director, Kash Patel.

An aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation has reached a settlement with the federal government.

In a story published April 21, 2026, about a Justice Department case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an informant was allegedly paid more than $270,000 between 2015 and 2013.

A trial is underway in Virginia for an alleged Islamic State militant charged in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine and its reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick, contending its article posted last week that talked about his alleged excessive drinking was a “malicious hit piece.”.

The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the last year.

There's been a holdup on Capitol Hill in advancing the renewal of a program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails.

The attorney for a man shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an enforcement stop in California says his client was arrested by the FBI after being discharged from a hospital.

The attorney for a man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in central California says his client is recovering after three surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds and that he denies being a gang member.

A federal judge ordered rapper Pooh Shiesty to remain in custody after he and eight others were accused of kidnapping three music industry professionals and robbing them at gunpoint in Texas during a contract dispute involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label.

An uncertain ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. and Israel may do little to stop cyberattacks from hackers allied with Tehran.

Savannah Guthrie has returned to hosting the “Today” show for the first time since her mother disappeared from her Arizona home more than two months ago.

Federal prosecutors have accused rapper Pooh Shiesty and eight others of robbing three men at gunpoint and kidnapping them in Texas following a contract dispute in January involving rapper Gucci Mane’s record label.

Three fired FBI agents have sued to try to get their jobs back, saying in a class action lawsuit they were illegally punished for their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Lawyers for Rep. Eric Swalwell are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel immediately end any effort to release decade-old files from an investigation involving the California Democrat and a suspected Chinese spy that resulted in no criminal charges.

The FBI says a man with an assault-style rifle who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the militant group Hezbollah and was seeking to kill many Jewish people.

A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents.

A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse.

Jewish and Muslim communities in the United States observed some of the most sacred holidays of their respective religions despite increased security measures and concerns over hateful rhetoric as the war in the Middle East continues.

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The former counterterrorism director who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war is denying allegations that he improperly shared classified information.

Two agents fired from the FBI last year say in a federal lawsuit they were terminated “solely” because of their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

A Michigan synagogue has posted photos on social media of major fire damage that occurred when a man drove a pickup truck into the building last week before killing himself.

The FBI says a suspicious package found at MacDill Air Force Base contains possible energetic materials, and the investigation is ongoing.

Attorneys for former FBI agent John Connolly have filed a new motion seeking to overturn his murder conviction, citing newly disclosed evidence tied to mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.

The U_S_ government’s top intelligence official has told lawmakers that Iran’s government “appears to be intact but largely degraded.”.

A man charged with planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claims he's covered by President Donald Trump's blanket pardons.

The ex-wife of the gunman who drove a pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue told police that he was distraught and suicidal.

Israel's military is claiming that the brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week was a Hezbollah commander.

Three acts of ideologically inspired violence in the past week in the United States have laid bare the heightened terrorism threat unfolding against the backdrop of the war with Iran.

A Lebanese-born man who had learned a week earlier that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country, waited in his car outside a Detroit-area synagogue for two hours before ramming into the building.

What started as an investigation into a Clermont hospital employee has now escalated further, according to a federal complaint obtained by News 6.

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was fatally shot by security.

The armed man who rammed his vehicle into one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues has been identified as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized citizen born in Lebanon, according to federal officials.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says there's no imminent threat to the state from Iran.

The FBI found explosive residue in a Pennsylvania storage unit after two men were charged with bringing homemade bombs to a protest outside the home of New York City’s mayor.

The Republican leader of Arizona’s state Senate says he has complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to the 2020 presidential election.

A Bangladeshi man accused of using social media to trick teenage girls into sending him sexually explicit images — and then threatening to share them with their friends and family if they didn’t send more — has been transported to Alaska to face federal charges.

The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review.

The FBI is investigating “suspicious activities” on an internal system that the bureau says contains sensitive information related to surveillance operations and investigations.

A criminal trial in New York is airing claims that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was entangled in a foiled 2024 assassination plot that eyed then-candidate Donald Trump as a possible target.

Federal and city authorities say the gunman who opened fire outside a Texas bar, killing two college students and wounding 14 others was not on their radar before the attack.

Authorities say a gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 at a Texas bar.

The FBI has fired additional agents who worked on an investigation into President Donald Trump, this time terminating employees who participated in the probe into the Republican’s hoarding of classified documents.

The FBI has served at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the home of its superintendent.

When the American men’s hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel.

Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating claims that immigration officers shattered a Mexican man's skull while taking him into custody last month.