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During a press conference on Friday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he has seen video of the Jan. 7 encounter between Memphis police and Tyre Nichols, who died three days later. Wray said what happened was "tragic" and that he was "appalled" at what he saw in the video.

Thirty years later, two new books examine how the deadly Branch Davidian standoff altered the far-right landscape, preparing the ground for Jan. 6.

The FBI is in crisis. If we don’t fix it now, we risk irrevocably breaking the greatest law enforcement agency in the world – and America’s trust in this invaluable institution.

Sources told CBS News that the classified documents found at Pence's residence included briefings from foreign trips.

The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.

A northern Virginia man convicted nearly a decade ago of supporting the Islamic State group as a teenager has now been accused of violating his terms of release by meeting with a convicted Taliban supporter

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the group — called Hive — hacked and demanded ransom from hospitals, school districts, financial firms and other entities.

The ransomware group demanded over $130 million from over 1,500 victims in 80 countries.

The FBI and international partners have at least temporarily dismantled the network of a prolific ransomware gang they infiltrated last year, saving victims including hospitals and school districts a potential $130 million in ransom payments, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials announced Thursday. Officials said the targeted syndicate, known as Hive, operates one of the world's top five ransomware networks and has heavily targeted hospitals and other health care providers. The FBI quietly gained access to its control panel in July and was able to obtain software keys to decrypt the network of some 1,300 victims globally, said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Ted Cruz is calling on the FBI to search Hunter Biden's home and business for classified documents following the discovery of classified documents at President Biden's Wilmington home.

The offices of former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton say they turned over all classified materials to the National Archives at the end of their presidencies.

French Canadian woman also mailed threatening letters with homemade toxin to eight Texas law enforcement officials

Writer Jeff Guinn draws on new interviews with federal agents and surviving Branch Davidians in his account of the confrontation, which left scores of people dead, including more than 20 children.

Robert "Wes" Wheeler, 52, sat down with the Tribune to talk about his new job leading the Chicago FBI.

President Biden, former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence are all under scrutiny for their improper retention of classified documents.

The Texas senator is cool with classified documents at Mike Pence's house but not so fine with the ones found at Joe Biden's.

"He never did anything knowingly dishonest in his life," Trump said after news broke that classified documents were discovered at Pence's home.

Jamaica’s government has turned to the FBI for help as it investigates a massive fraud case involving a private investment firm where $12.7 million belonging to renowned sprinter Usain Bolt has gone missing.

Wanda Sykes joked that the Joe Biden’s documents scandal was no big deal because he was so old that most of the documents were probably just “history now.”

Joe Biden was on a roll after the midterms. His approval numbers were rising and it looked like a 2024 presidential run would be announced. So who leaked about the classified documents?

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Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses the arrest of former FBI official Charles McGonigal over colluding with Russian oligarchs on "Hannity."

The White House reiterated that President Biden takes classified information "very seriously" on Monday after the latest batch of documents were discovered at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Octaviano Juarez-Corro of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who shot and killed two people at a Memorial Day picnic in 2006, was found dead in his jail cell Sunday morning.

Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, allegedly worked with Oleg Deripaska, who has been on the U.S. sanctions list since 2018.

Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief, is charged with money laundering and other counts connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's office says someone scammed the Kansas Republican's reelection campaign out of $690,000 by getting his accounting firm to wire the money to fraudulent bank accounts.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Arun G. Rao of the Department of Justice Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch, together with colleagues from the Consumer Protection Branch and the FBI, met last week with Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials in New Delhi to discuss deepening and expanding efforts to combat cyber-enabled financial crimes and transnational call center fraud, a shared law enforcement priority. In their meetings, the parties highlighted the continued strengthening of cooperation in combating these types of crimes that has occurred since their last meeting in October 2021, including successful efforts to secure the testimony of U.S. victims of call center fraud for use in enforcement proceedings against the alleged perpetrators in India, as well as the seizure of evidence and arrests of individuals in India allegedly involved in cyber-enabled financial crimes and global telemarketing frauds and identified, in part, through information provided with the assistance of U.S. law enforcement. The parties reaffirmed their mutual commitment to continued cooperation in addressing dynamic and evolving technology-based crimes by building upon the experience gained through recent efforts and further refining processes for the exchange of information, in order to ensure the safety of citizens of both the United States and India.

A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has been indicted on charges he helped a Russian oligarch, in violation of U.S. sanctions.

McGonigal retired from the FBI in September of 2018. Specifically, McGonigal requested and received at least $225,000 in cash from the individual and traveled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility. McGonigal is accused of engaging in other conduct in his official capacity as an FBI Special Agent in Charge that he believed would benefit the businessperson financially. The FBI Los Angeles Field Office is investigating the case, with significant assistance provided by the FBI Washington Field Office.

McGonigal is a former Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York who retired in 2018. While working at the FBI, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. In 2021, McGonigal and Shestakov conspired to provide services to Deripaska, in violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on Deripaska in 2018. In addition, in 2019, McGonigal and Shestakov worked on behalf of Deripaska in an unsuccessful effort to have the sanctions against Deripaska lifted. In November 2021, when FBI agents questioned Shestakov about the nature of his and McGonigal’s relationship with Deripaska’s agent, Shestakov made false statements in a recorded interview.

An FBI search on Friday discovered at least six additional items with classified markings at President Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joins "CBS News Mornings" with more on the investigation and how Congress is responding.

During a voluntary FBI search of President Joe Biden's home in Delaware, more documents marked classified were located by investigators. The new documents bring the total number discovered to between 25 and 30. Ed O'Keefe reports.

Nearly 300 Roman Catholic churches have been attacked in the U.S. since May 2020, with 118 of them taking place since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a nonprofit.

Fox News host Mark Levin explains why the House GOP needs to change up the country's legal and judicial system in his monologue on 'Life Liberty & Levin.

An FBI search of President Biden’s Delaware home uncovered several more documents with classified markings. Mr. Biden cooperated with the search. Adrianna Diaz reports.

Senior Democrats are expressing criticism of how President Joe Biden handled classified material after leaving office as vice president.

Senior Democrats, dismayed by a steady stream of startling disclosures, expressed criticism Sunday of how President Joe Biden handled classified materia l after leaving office as vice president and disappointment that the White House has not been more forthcoming with the public. Lawmakers who might have anticipated questions focusing on the debt limit or Ukraine aid when they were booked last week for the Sunday news shows found themselves quizzed about the latest development over the weekend in the document drama that has put Biden's presidency on the defensive: During a search Friday of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, the FBI found additional documents with classified markings and took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer said Saturday.

President Biden's lawyers requested the Friday search of Biden's residence that uncovered a fourth batch of classified documents, according to media reports.

A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others at a Los Angeles-area ballroom dance club following a Lunar New Year celebration, setting off a manhunt for the suspect in the fifth mass killing in the U.S. this month.

Former employees and online researchers say an increase in physical attacks in the United States tracks with spikes in some categories of hate speech on Twitter, notably antisemitic and anti-gay slurs and rhetoric.

In the 15 installment of the Twitter Files, Elon Musk invited independent writers to report on various controversies based on the company's internal archives.

The White House previously emphasized a search of President Joe Biden's home was 'complete' but additional classified documents were found by the FBI on Friday.

Director Doug Liman announced his new documentary at the festival. Then new tips began pouring in.

Another search, this one by the FBI at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, has turned up more material containing classified markings.

A new documentary looks into the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Three active duty members of the Marine Corps have been charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, according to court filings.

About 7,000 police agencies aren't sending hate crime data to the federal government.

The United States requested that the Kingdom of Spain provisionally arrest Masters for purposes of extradition. We thank our international partners who helped facilitate the arrest of Richard Masters in Spain earlier today." After Vekselberg was sanctioned in April 2018, Masters’s company took over the management of Tango, and conspired with others to evade the U.S. sanctions. On April 4, 2022, Spanish law enforcement executed a Spanish court order freezing Tango. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in working with the Spanish authorities throughout this matter.

When federal agents kicked in his door one icy morning last November, Joerg Arnu was still asleep. Roused by deafening bangs and shouts, the 60-year-old retired software developer stumbled out of bed to find a crowd of unfamiliar men in military gear standing in his foyer.

An indictment was unsealed today in the Western District of Wisconsin charging a Wisconsin man with one count of labor trafficking. The FBI Milwaukee Field Office and the River Falls Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Taylor Kraus for the Western District of Wisconsin and Trial Attorneys Slava Kuperstein and Julie Pfluger of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit are prosecuting the case. The FBI is asking anyone with information about Austin Koeckeritz to contact the FBI Milwaukee Field Office at (414) 276-4684. If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.

FBI Director Christopher Wray says he's “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government’s artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was “not constrained by the rule of law.”.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Chinese government's artificial intelligence program, asserting that it was “not constrained by the rule of law.” Speaking during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wray said Beijing's AI ambitions were “built on top of massive troves of intellectual property and sensitive data that they've stolen over the years.”

The conviction comes after jurors in an earlier trial could not reach a unanimous verdict.

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office task force arrested a husband and wife linked to the mysterious death of a young girl in central Alabama.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom voiced his frustration with human rights violations in Turkey on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Two power substations were damaged in early December, knocking out power for tens of thousands. The latest shooting did not cause any outages, the utility said.

In the last month Twitter owner Elon Musk has given a group of journalist access to the company's internal emails and other documents. Here's what I have discovered about the FBI.

Human trafficking can happen anywhere and to anyone — that was the message Tuesday morning from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit and the FBI during a news conference in recognition of National Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

A newly-unsealed indictment names 76 people as part of a plan to move large amounts of drugs into Southeast Georgia, and much of the conspiracy operated from inside Georgia state prisons, the U.S. Department of Justice for the Southern District of Georgia announced Wednesday.

The founder of a California-based porn empire that coerced young women into filming adult videos has been arrested in Spain, three years after he fled while facing federal sex-trafficking charges.

There’s a safety alert for parents: The FBI is wanting about a growing trend of online extortion cases targeting teens.

A former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office emergency dispatcher pleaded guilty to two counts of producing photos and a video depicting himself while he sexually abused two young children, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said Monday.

Donald Trump is facing a new legal threat, but there's little sign the Republican Party is defending the former president with the same intensity and urgency that defined his previous legal clashes.

An explosive increase in teenage boys targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending explicit pictures of themselves has the FBI sounding a public-safety alarm.

A judge has handed down the longest prison terms so far in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

A hacker claims to have posed as the CEO of a financial institution to obtain access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard.

Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report that experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments didn’t report their data.

Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI’s radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members but agents closed out the case just weeks later.

A published report says lawyers for former President Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent search of a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have provided them to the FBI.

Authorities say the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives and punished followers who didn't treat him as a prophet.

After an attack on an electric grid in North Carolina, Northeast Florida utility companies say they are fortifying the security around their power grids.

Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime.

FBI Director Chris Wray is raising national security concerns about TikTok.

A watchdog investigation initiated after the tax returns of two former FBI directors had been subjected to intensive audits during the Trump administration has concluded that the reviews from those years were conducted at random.

Nearby streets in the area have been closed.

A new Senate report is criticizing the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security for not doing enough to track domestic extremists.

The Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former president can assert executive privilege over documents seized from his Florida estate to shield them from investigators and over whether he can treat the records as his own personal belongings.

Israel's Defense Minister says the United States government has started an investigation into the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Federal agents believe a recent spate of threats and false reports of shooters at high schools and colleges across the U.S. may be coming from outside of the country.

The FBI says it has received credible information about a “broad” threat to synagogues in New Jersey, a warning that has prompted some municipalities to send extra police officers to guard houses of worship.

The Biden administration is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information about a Singapore-based businessman already accused by the Justice Department of facilitating fuel shipments to North Korea in violation of U.N. sanctions.

Authorities in Massachusetts, who earlier this week said they had finally identified the “Lady of the Dunes,” a woman whose mutilated body was found on Cape Cod in 1974, are now looking for information about a man she may have married.

U.S. Army officials say investigators have launched a broad review of at least 1,900 National Guard and Reserve soldiers who were swept up in a recruiting bonus scandal up to a decade ago and may have been wrongly blamed and punished.

The FBI says it has arrested two members of the far-right anti-government group the Boogaloo Boys, with authorities increasingly concerned about the potential for violence in the leadup to next week’s midterm elections.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the State Attorney’s Office and the FBI all said on Monday that antisemitic messages displayed around Jacksonville over the weekend did not appear to break any laws.

Officials used investigative genealogy to identify a woman whose mutilated body was found on the Cape Cod National Seashore nearly 50 years ago, solving the mystery of the “Lady of the Dunes” that had stumped authorities for decades.

The White House is bringing together three dozen nations, the European Union and a slew of private-sector companies for a two-day summit that looks at how best to combat ransomware attacks.

The Department of Justice says a man who sold a pistol to a man who used it to hold four hostages inside a Texas synagogue before being fatally shot by the FBI has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for a federal gun crime.

Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — a conspiracy to sink his 2016 campaign.

A jury has acquitted on all counts a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump.

A jury has heard closing arguments in the trial of a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court has rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate.

Two supporters of President Donald Trump arrested after driving a vehicle with guns and ammunition to a Philadelphia election site in November 2020 were convicted of weapons charges Wednesday but acquitted of election interference.

The FBI agent who questioned an analyst charged with lying to the bureau about his role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump has twice testified that he believes the analyst was truthful with him.

A federal jury in Virginia has heard opening statements in the trial of a think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump.

A lawyer for former president Donald Trump who signed a letter stating that a “diligent search” for classified records had been conducted and that all such documents had been given back to the government has spoken with the FBI.

A think tank analyst who played a major role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump is scheduled to go on trial.

An attorney for Brad Pitt says he will continue to respond in court to allegations from ex-wife Angelina Jolie that he abused her and their children on a 2016 flight.

The FBI estimates violent crime rates didn’t increase substantially last year, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to annual crime data.