FBI: Cybercriminals set new record in 2018 by causing more than $2.7 billion in reported losses
Financial losses caused by cybercrimes reported to the FBI nearly doubled in 2018 over the year before, according to a government report released Monday.
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Terrorist attacks on Christians ‘happening more and more’: ex-FBI special agent
Speaking in the wake of the Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka, a counterterrorism expert told Fox News radical Islamic terrorism is spreading beyond the Middle East and is ‘happening more and more.’
0 for 12: Mueller report debunks Democrats’ entire Trump-Russia dossier
The Democratic Party-financed dossier, once celebrated by liberal Washington politicians and journalists, is officially debunked, according to a review of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page investigative report.
Barr’s FBI ‘spying’ claim amps up fight over Mueller probe
The nation’s top law enforcement official on Wednesday appeared to back up President Donald Trump’s assertion that the Justice Department ‘spied’ on his presidential campaign — an explosive comment that heightened partisan tensions ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
Attorney General Barr puts team in place to investigate FBI probe of Trump
Attorney General William Barr has established an investigative team that he intends to use to look into the origins of an FBI counter-intelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
FBI joins investigation into fires at 3 black churches in Louisiana
Three historic black churches have burned down in a local Louisiana community, and authorities are neither ruling out arson nor that the three fires are related to one another.
Judge considers whether terror watchlist is unconstitutional
A federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be ‘known or suspected terrorists.’
FBI: 2nd Highest Number of Gun Transactions Processed Through NICS System in 2018
The calendar year of 2018 had the second highest number of gun transactions on record, and the number of gun background checks this past Black Friday was among the highest volume days on record with more than 182,000 transactions, an FBI official told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday.
FBI: Crime Dropped in 2018
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday violent crime dropped across the country in 2018.
Judicial Watch Sues DOJ: We Face DOJ/FBI ‘Cover-Up’ of Planned ‘Coup Against President Trump’
Because of previous news reports and now the revelations of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe that he ordered a counterintelligence investigation of President Trump in May 2017, and that his FBI team, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, discussed secretly wire-recording the president and invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, the government watchdog Judicial Watch is suing the Justice Department.
Senators may investigate ‘coup’ to remove Donald Trump from office
An investigation may take place into claims senior officials discussed whether Donald Trump could be removed from office.
Rod Rosenstein to leave DOJ in mid-March
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department in mid-March.
McCabe, Rosenstein must testify to explain claim that DOJ discussed removing Trump, GOP leaders say
The top Republicans on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees are calling for former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to testify before their respective panels, following McCabe’s explosive claims in an interview this week that senior Justice Department officials had considered removing President Trump using the 25th Amendment.
McCabe details central role in Russia probes, DOJ meetings on whether to oust president
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, speaking out in a new book and TV interview, detailed the central role he played in the bureau’s Russia probe and the eventual appointment of a special counsel — while reportedly describing Justice Department meetings where officials discussed ousting President Trump.
Robert Mueller has spent two years investigating Trump, and he hasn’t said a word. It’s possible he never will.
Occasionally, his signature appears on court documents. But on the most consequential days of the nearly two-year investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the man leading it – Robert Mueller – has been conspicuously absent.
FBI finds no motive for Las Vegas shooting, closes probe
The FBI has found no clear motive for the killing of 58 people by a sniper firing down at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in 2017, the agency said on Tuesday as it closed an investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
FBI: Sting nabs jihadist who sought to attack White House with anti-tank rocket
A would-be jihadist who had detailed plans to use an anti-tank rocket to storm into the White House was arrested in a sting Wednesday after he traded his car for guns and explosives, authorities said.
FBI misses deadline to provide docs to Judiciary Committee probing whistleblower raid
The Justice Department and FBI have missed a Wednesday deadline to provide information about the government’s mysterious raid on a former FBI contractor-turned-whistleblower’s home last month.
Oversight panel hearing on Clinton Foundation blows up
A congressional hearing on the Clinton Foundation turned into a fiasco on Thursday after Republicans clashed with their own witnesses — two private investigators who refused to turn over documents that they claimed showed evidence of criminal wrongdoing at the Clinton Foundation.
House Republicans Got Hacked During the 2018 Campaign, FBI Investigating
The National Republican Congressional Committee said Tuesday that it was hit with a ‘cyber intrusion’ during the 2018 midterm campaigns and has reported the breach to the FBI.