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Man sentenced to 10 years in prison for Martha's Vineyard armed bank robbery
A man has been sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for a November 2022 bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard that set off an extensive manhunt, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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New Jersey drones don't appear to pose national security or public safety threat, FBI says
There have been dozens of sightings of what appear to be drones over New Jersey and adjacent areas in recent weeks.
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FBI Director Wray to step down before Trump's inauguration
About a week after Donald Trump announced his intention to replace Wray with Kash Patel, Christopher Wray announced that he will resign from his role as director of the FBI.
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FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign at end of Biden's term in January
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the bureau workforce Wednesday that he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January, an announcement that came a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job.
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US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
FBI and CISA officials said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
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Why the FBI wants you to stop texting without encryption
After a major cyberattack by foreign hackers, increasing concerns about the vulnerability of our mobile messaging systems, the FBI and CISA want Americans to use encrypted messaging to keep their messages protected — and common ways of communicating are affected.
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US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack
Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
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5 things to know about Kash Patel
Here are five things to know about former federal prosecutor Kash Patel.
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Fugitive wanted in US on terror charges arrested in UK after 20 years on the run
Authorities say a suspected terrorist wanted in the U.S. for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 has appeared in a London courtroom after being captured in the U.K.
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FBI agent charged with raping women at Maryland tattoo studio
An FBI agent is accused of luring women to his tattoo studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before raping and assaulting them, police say.
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FBI investigating whether burglaries targeting athletes are linked to a transnational crime ring
The homes of NFL teammates Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were burglarized last month. NBA stars Bobby Portis and Mike Conley Jr. also recently had their homes broken into.
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Offensive, racist texts now being sent to high-schoolers, Latinos and LGBTQ community, FBI says
The FBI on Friday said reports of racist and offensive text messages sent from anonymous phone numbers are now being sent to members of Latino and LGBTQ communities.
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Malcolm X's daughters sue CIA, FBI and NYPD over civil rights leader's assassination
Malcolm X’s daughters are accusing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others in a $100-million lawsuit for mishandling their father’s 1965 assassination.
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US uncovers ‘broad and significant' Chinese spying effort on American telecom companies
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.
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FBI to pay $22 million to settle claims of sexual discrimination at training academy
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.
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FBI agents have boarded vessel managed by company whose other cargo ship collapsed Baltimore bridge
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.
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Explosives buried for years in Mass. forest uncovered by metal detector, police say
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....
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Iran hackers stole Trump campaign files and sent them to Democrats. What to know
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.
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Woman sentenced for making hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's
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...
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FBI warns about text scam involving fake toll bills. Here's what to know.
Drivers are being targeted in a new scam, according to the FBI, getting thousands of reports of the unpaid toll bill scams since March.