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Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of “a limited number of individuals,” the FBI said.

The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors.

The FBI has confirmed that federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse.

TNT and plastic explosives were found buried in a remote part of a Massachusetts state forest by a man with a metal detector on Thursday, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear what the explosives were doing in the ground in Rowley, near the border with Newbury, but they appeared to have been there for years, according to Rowley police....

When the FBI said this week that Iran had tried to provide Democrats with material stolen from Donald Trump’s campaign, it was only the latest allegation of foreign interference with the U.S. election.

A Massachusetts woman was sentenced to probation for calling in a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital in 2022. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 37-year-old Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, pled guilty to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information in September 2023. Leavy was sentenced to...

Drivers are being targeted in a new scam, according to the FBI, getting thousands of reports of the unpaid toll bill scams since March.

A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said Monday that he could have put 32-year-old Jareh Sebastian Dalke behind bars for even longer.

Dr. Abigail Judge was recognized with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in recognition for her service to survivors of sex trafficking. 

Ervin Bolling was a supporter of Donald Trump, according to postings uncovered by the group Advance Democracy.

The FBI says a driver rammed a vehicle into the front gate of its Atlanta office, but his motives were not immediately known.

A former Boston police captain was convicted by a federal jury Friday in an overtime fraud scheme dating back to 2012, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said. Richard Evans, 65, of Hanover, was convicted of conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and…

Richard Abath, a guard who was on duty the night of the infamous art theft at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, has died, his lawyer told The Boston Globe.

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Led by its Boston office, the FBI is targeting a Russian cyberoperation accused of attacking U.S. homes and small businesses.

The former superintendent of schools in Chicopee, Massachusetts, has pleaded guilty to accusations she lied to the FBI in connection with an investigation into the sending of 99 threatening text messages to a candidate for Chicopee police chief.

Local, state and federal agencies searched a property in Plainville, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon as part of an ongoing investigation. Among those at the scene were FBI Boston’s Evidence Response Team and the ATF, according to an FBI spokesperson. Plainville Police Chief James Floyd said the search was in response to information gathered during the investigation into a narcotics...

Government buildings in several states were evacuated Thursday following bomb threats, causing brief disruptions for the second day in a row in some places. The Mississippi Capitol and courthouses in Arkansas, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and New Hampshire were evacuated or searched, but no explosives were immediately found, and the buildings were reopened to the public. The latest round of evacuations…

The FBI says there’s is an increased risk for violence at faith-based celebrations this holiday season..

The FBI and Homeland Security warmed on Tuesday of an increased threat for violence in large crowds and religious gatherings.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security warn there is an increased threat for violence specifically in large crowds and at faith-based gatherings. The announcement was made Tuesday and officials said its in response to the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas. The two agencies are urging, Jewish, Muslim, Arab and Christian communities to be on…