WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is reviewing a batch of potentially classified documents found in the Washington office space of President Joe Biden's former institute, the White House said Monday. Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said “a small number of documents with classified markings” were discovered as Biden's...
FBI Alerts Fresno Sheriff to Domestic Terror Threats at State Capitol, No Direct Threats Locally
The FBI contacted the Fresno County Sheriff's Office on Monday to issue an alert about the potential threat of people targeting state Capitol buildings throughout the country. "They (FBI) just made us aware of that intel they had," says Fresno County Sheriff's spokesperson Tony Botti to GV Wire℠. "We're just...
FBI Warns of Plans for Nationwide Armed Protests Next Week
WASHINGTON — The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in Washington in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week's deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol. An internal FBI bulletin warned that, as...
US Blames Iran in Abduction, Death of Ex-FBI Agent Levinson
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration for the first time on Monday formally blamed Iran for the presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, publicly identifying two Iranian intelligence officers believed responsible for his abduction. Levinson disappeared in Iran under mysterious circumstances more than a decade ago, and though U.S. diplomats...
‘I Am Not Afraid of the Gas Chamber’: Codebreakers Solve Old Zodiac Killer Cipher
[aggregation-styles] NBC News An international team of amateur sleuths claim to have decoded a half-century-old taunt by California's notorious Zodiac Killer. And federal authorities said they believe the code breakers appear to be on solid ground in following the mysterious killer who fatally stabbed or shot five people in Northern...
Hate Crimes in US Reach Highest Level in More Than a Decade
WASHINGTON — Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday. There were 51 hate...
Ex-FBI Lawyer Admits to False Statement During Russia Probe
WASHINGTON — A former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty Wednesday to altering a document related to the secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser during the Russia investigation. Kevin Clinesmith is the first current or former official to be charged in a special Justice Department review of the investigation into...
US Official: FBI to Join Beirut Explosion Investigation
BEIRUT — Visiting U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale says the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be joining Lebanese and other international investigators in the probe into the Beirut port blast that killed and wounded thousands. Hale said during a visit to one of the impacted neighborhood in...
FBI Raids Ohio Political Leader's Farm in Midst of Bribery Probe
COLUMBUS, Ohio — FBI agents were at the farm of Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on Tuesday morning, hours ahead of a planned announcement of a $60 million bribe investigation by federal prosecutors. FBI agents were carrying out “law enforcement activity” on Householder's property in Glenford in southeastern Ohio, FBI...
Attorney: Man Was Shot in Back by Los Angeles County Deputy
LOS ANGELES — An 18-year-old man was shot in the back five times and killed last month by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who, nearly three weeks later, still has not been interviewed by investigators, the family's lawyer and authorities said Wednesday. Andres Guardado, who friends and relatives said...