WASHINGTON | Hackers breached the computers of the U.S. government agency that collects personnel information for federal workers in a massive cyber attack that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former employees, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
A […]
NEWARK, N.J. — A defiant U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez declared that he’s “not going anywhere” after being charged with accepting nearly $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political […]
PORT GIBSON, Miss. — An FBI agent appealed for patience Friday after a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, saying 30 federal, state and local agents were working intensively to determine whether he was killed […]
NEW YORK — A U.S. Air Force veteran who was recently fired from his job as an airplane mechanic plotted to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and was arrested on terrorism charges, federal prosecutors said […]
CLEVELAND — The FBI is ramping up efforts to identify a woman in a Rhode Island surveillance photo who investigators say strongly resembles a girl missing from Cleveland since 2007.
The Cleveland Division of the FBI said the woman in the […]
NEW YORK — Two men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and wage war against the U.S. have appeared in federal court in Brooklyn.
Akhror Saidakhmetov and Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev were ordered held […]
NEW YORK — Three men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group and wage war against the United States were arrested on terrorism charges Wednesday, federal officials said.
Akhror Saidakhmetov, a Brooklyn resident and citizen […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is at a crossroads on matters of race relations and law enforcement, presenting “hard truths” that the public and police must confront, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday.
He stepped squarely into the national discussion […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department is about to close the investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, and clear the white police officer involved of any civil rights charges, The New York Times […]
CINCINNATI — A 20-year-old Ohio man’s Twitter posts sympathizing with Islamic terrorists led to an undercover FBI operation and the man’s arrest on charges that he plotted to blow up the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials.
Christopher Lee Cornell, […]
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors say an Ohio man has been arrested in a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials inside the building.
A criminal complaint charges 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell, of Green Township, with attempting to kill […]
ST. LOUIS — The prosecutor who oversaw the Ferguson police shooting inquiry released additional grand jury documents Monday evening, but they do not include a law enforcement interview with a key witness that was also appeared to be missing from […]
WASHINGTON — American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are bracing for possible security threats related to Tuesday’s planned release of a report on the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques, the White House says.
The report from the Senate Intelligence […]
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON/BOSTON – Eight days after a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hollywood studio was still struggling to restore some systems on Tuesday evening as investigators combed for evidence to identify the culprit.
Some employees at the […]
BOSTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Cybersecurity experts said the malicious software […]
SEATTLE — FBI Director James Comey says an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter during a 2007 criminal investigation, a ruse the news organization says could undermine its credibility.
In a letter Thursday to The New York Times, Comey said the […]
DENVER — Three teenage girls being investigated for trying to join Islamic State forces in Syria were victims of an “online predator” who encouraged them, a school official said Wednesday, as U.S. officials tried to determine how they made it […]
CHICAGO — A contract employee who recently was told he was being transferred to Hawaii set a fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control center where he worked, bringing two of the nation’s busiest airports to a halt Friday, […]
WASHINGTON – The masked Islamic State militant in the videos depicting the beheading of two Americans has been identified, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday, but he did not give the person’s name or nationality.
“I believe that we have […]
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FERGUSON Mo. – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was due to visit Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in an 11th night of racially charged demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black […]
WASHINGTON — The capture of an alleged leader of the deadly 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya, gave U.S. officials a rare moment of good news. Now, they are preparing to try the captured Libyan in the U.S. court […]
DUBLIN, Ohio — Hall of Fame golfer Phil Mickelson said he is cooperating in an insider trading investigation involving him, activist investor Carl Icahn and Las Vegas gambler Billy Walters. The five-time major champion maintains he has done nothing wrong.
Mickelson’s […]
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