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A federal judge set a February trial date for a man accused of packing explosives into a suitcase on a flight bound for Central Florida.

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.

A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington.

A former executive director of a Florida museum which was raided last year by the FBI over an exhibit of what turned out to be forged Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings is filing counterclaims against the museum.

European Union lawmakers have adopted a series of amendments to a draft law that is intended to keep sexually explicit photos and videos of minors from circulating online.

The contentious debate over a new FBI headquarters is intensifying.

The Biden administration has chosen a location for a new FBI headquarters in Maryland, selecting the site over one in Virginia following a sharp competition between the two states.

Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody is telling people to be on alert and report anything suspicious over fears that fighting in the Middle East could inspire attacks in the U.S.

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.

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.

The FBI has released its 2022 data for violent crime in the state of Florida.

According to the FBI, the state's rate of violent crime was well below the national average in 2022. But how does Central Florida compare?

The Supreme Court says it will indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.

After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was returned to Germany on Thursday.

The war between Israel and Hamas is raising fears about rising hostility across the United States.

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.

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.

Authorities say a 71-year-old Illinois man has been charged with a hate crime, accused of fatally stabbing a young boy and seriously wounded a woman because of their Islamic faith and the Israel-Hamas war.

FBI Director Christopher Wray has spoken to one of the nation's largest police groups about how his agency works with police around the United States in tackling violent crime, fentanyl and gangs.

A Brevard County pastor, his son and a member of their congregation were sentenced to prison time for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A man charged with stealing a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz” has pleaded guilty in a deal that could keep him out of prison due to his failing health.

Federal prosecutors want a 74-year-old Brevard County pastor to spend seven months in prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

FBI officials say a member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before he was supposed to be sentenced for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot was found unconscious by federal agents after he tried to “covertly return” to his home.

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case was emblematic of a movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women was convicted of first-degree murder in her fatal shooting.

A sharply divided privacy oversight board says the FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program.

The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into claims in recent lawsuits that Baton Rouge police assaulted and strip-searched drug suspects they detained in an obscure warehouse known as the “Brave Cave.”.

A man arrested in Orlando for charges connected to the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to nearly three years in prison on Friday.

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to concealing at least $225,000 in cash that he allegedly received from a former Albanian intelligence official while working for the agency.

The Texas Senate is deliberating over whether impeached Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton should be removed from office.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked enforcement of a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts.

The FBI says it served a search warrant at the Duval County Teachers United building in San Marco.

More than 50 years after a Vietnam War-era bombing on the University of Wisconsin campus that killed a researcher, the FBI has released age-processed photographs of a suspect who has evaded law enforcement for more than half a century and been referred to as “Wisconsin’s state ghost.”.

The Biden administration says it has detected and stopped a network attempting to smuggle people from Uzbekistan into the United States and says at least one member of the network had links to a foreign terrorist group.

Jacksonville's sheriff says a white gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General store was racially motivated and hated Black people.

Within a day of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, more than 100 of them or their relatives have come forward to say they’re safe.

A Donald Trump supporter who surrendered to Georgia authorities on charges he conspired with the former president and other allies to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss is also facing federal charges that he assaulted an FBI agent in Maryland.

Authorities are searching for a member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before his sentencing in a U.S. Capitol riot case, where prosecutors are seeking more than a decade in prison.

A Florida man who used a flagpole to attack officers who were trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in a New York.

Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to impost “significant sentences of imprisonment” in a case involving two Central Florida residents.

This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S. Threats against public officials have been steadily climbing in recent years, creating new challenges for law enforcement, civil rights and the health of American democracy.

Family members of an armed Utah man who was killed by FBI agents after making threats against President Joe Biden are describing him as a gun enthusiast who was worried about “a corrupt and overreaching government.”.

A federal judge recently ordered the release of three of the “Newburgh Four,” who were arrested in 2009 in a fictitious plot to destroy military planes and New York synagogues.

The search for more potential victims of a violent sexual assault investigation in Oregon has FBI agents focusing on the Orlando area.

A cyberattack has affected computers at hospitals in multiple states, forcing some emergency rooms to close and ambulances to be diverted.

A St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan known as “Rally Runner” has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and used a stolen shield to help other rioters attack police officers.

A White House advisory board is calling for major changes in how the FBI uses a controversial foreign surveillance tool.

House Democrats are demanding the release of a transcript from a new FBI witness, saying it contradicts Republicans’ claims in the vast congressional inquiry into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip.

Three men convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress.

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An Orlando performer acquitted on charges connected to the attack on the U.S. Capitol said he was shocked when a federal judge found him not guilty.

Two Brevard County church leaders and one of their church members were found guilty for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might block the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the suburbs of Washington.

The FBI has opened criminal investigations into violent encounters involving Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.

Fargo's police chief says a gunman opened fire on police and firefighters “for no known reason” as they responded to a traffic crash in North Dakota.

35-year-old Gabriel Almenas Carrasquillo was arrested on Aug. 11, 2022 in Orlando after attempting to meet with who he thought was a 13-year-old boy, but was actually an undercover FBI agent posing as a child online, according to a statement released by the FBI.

No fingerprints or DNA turned up on the baggie of cocaine found in the West Wing lobby last week despite a sophisticated FBI crime lab analysis, and surveillance footage of the area didn’t identify a suspect, according to summary of the Secret Service investigation obtained by The Associated Press.

FBI Director Chris Wray defended what he calls the “real FBI” before a contentious hearing of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

An actor from Orlando and two pastors from Melbourne face separate trials that began Monday for their reported roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Justice Department has disclosed some of the previously blacked-out portions of a warrant application it submitted last year to gain authorization to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida property for classified documents.

FBI agents arrested a Michigan man in Orlando on Friday on charges connected to the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

A Senate committee's report says the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.

The person who killed five people and pleaded guilty in a 2022 mass shooting at a LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs has been sentenced to life in prison.

A Central Florida man has agreed to a plea deal in connection with his alleged involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

An American missionary who spent six years in captivity in Africa says he was beaten, locked in chains and pressured repeatedly to convert to Islam.

A 24-year-old man arrested Friday afternoon by Orlando police is accused of robbing a bank in broad daylight.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

The Biden administration is releasing what it says are newly declassified examples of how U.S. surveillance programs are used.

A businessman at the center of the scandal that led to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s historic impeachment is set to make an initial appearance in federal court following his arrest by the FBI.

The American public is broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security.

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee has called off a vote that would move forward with holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.

An actor known for his roles on the comedy television shows “Bob’s Burgers” and “Mr. Show with Bob and David” has been arrested on charges that he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in confronting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot.

The years-long feud between congressional Republicans and the FBI is reaching a new level of rancor.

The FBI has offered to show top lawmakers next week a bureau document that purports to relate to President Joe Biden and his family following weeks of demands by congressional Republicans and a contempt threat against Director Christopher Wray.

Republicans in Congress are locked in an escalating fight with the director of the FBI.

CBS is television's most popular network for the 15th straight year, even though the bragging rights don't mean quite what they used to.

The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the U.S. West Coast.

Former special counsel John Durham is scheduled to testify before a House committee next month about his recently completed report on the FBI’s investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The Justice Department has come out with new guidance emphasizing that investigations must be free from bias involving race and gender or against people with disabilities.

FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the insurrection at the U.

Several FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency announced two of them had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capital attack affected their work.

A federal grand jury has indicted a man who is suspected of stealing a pair of famous ruby red slippers worn by Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Federal prosecutors said Terry Martin was indicted Tuesday on one count of theft of major artwork.

A 306-page report by Justice Department special counsel John Durham is refocusing negative attention on one of the most politically significant investigations in FBI history: the probe into whether Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was colluding with Russia to tip the outcome of the election.

An investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign has finally been concluded.

A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The Justice Department is asking a judge to put on hold a scheduled deposition of Donald Trump in a lawsuit brought by an FBI agent who was fired over text messages critical of the former president.

A military veteran who told an undercover FBI agent about his admiration for Adolf Hitler has been sentenced to four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.

A top House Republican has subpoenaed the FBI director for what he claims are bureau records related to President Joe Biden and his family.

A former FBI supervisory agent has been charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol more than two years ago.

More than 250 law enforcement officials, including the U.S. Marshals, have joined the Texas manhunt for a gunman who fatally shot five neighbors late Friday.

Law enforcement officers say they have no idea where a Texas man is who police say shot and killed five neighbors on Friday after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard.

Growing anger at the FBI from both parties in Congress has become a major hurdle for U.S. intelligence agencies fighting to keep vast powers to collect foreign communications.

The Orlando Museum of Art announced a new interim executive director and CEO Monday nearly a year after its former leader left following the FBI seizure of fraudulent paintings displayed in the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit.

Federal officials say they have asked the FBI to consider criminal charges against more than 250 unruly airline passengers since late 2021.

A Los Angeles auctioneer agreed to plead guilty in a criminal case involving an FBI raid at the Orlando Museum of Art during June of last year, according to The New York Times.

The Biden administration has begun sharing with a bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the Gang of Eight classified documents found in the possession of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.

An Orlando man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child sex abuse material, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Friday.

A California man is in custody after law enforcement agents say he threatened to kill Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood.