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44 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
ShinyHunters says it broke in through the FBI's jobs portal and took 2 to 3 terabytes of files, including agents' home addresses and spouses' names. A former agent confirmed a sample was real.
The transfer ends a five-year judicial stall in Port-au-Prince. Those still held in Haiti include more than a dozen former Colombian soldiers and a former government official. The former first lady, who was wounded in the attack, has accused ex-President Michel Martelly and ex-Prime Minister Ariel Henry of ties to the killing.
WatchThe records, obtained by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, show Thomas Crooks practiced a 100-yard shot at a Clairton gun club the day before the July 2024 rally, that an anonymous donor paid to cremate him within 10 days, and that investigators still have no motive.
WatchIn his first congressional appearance since May, the FBI director defended relaxed hiring rules on prostitution and bestiality, brushed off a ProPublica report on Don Jr.'s wedding, and refused to give Blumenthal an unambiguous pledge to keep agents away from elections.
The VL Prosperity, a 333-meter Liberian-flagged crude carrier sailing from Egypt, was boarded Aug. 21 to investigate a cyberattack reported two weeks earlier. The U.S. has not said who did it, and the Coast Guard says there was no damage, spill or danger to the crew.
OpenAI's monitoring caught the conversations, the FBI's legal attaché in Buenos Aires relayed the alert on August 19, and federal police in Quilmes seized tactical gloves, balaclavas and goggles. The attack was planned for 2027.
Christian Castro, 52, pleaded not guilty to six federal counts of making false statements to the FBI. Surveillance video contradicted his account of being attacked with a broom and a snow shovel.
A site called Nexus advertised front-and-back images, plus infrared and ultraviolet scans, of American and Canadian IDs. Investigators suspect the source is a Louisiana verification firm that runs more than 21 million ID checks a month.
The bureau changed its background-check standards in June without announcement. It lost 1,139 special agents in 2025, and Director Kash Patel has said the old rules were costing him qualified recruits.
Prosecutors say Andrew Arrabaca, 43, poured gasoline outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and told investigators he did not care if he killed people.
Written notice reached FBI managers that the bureau will no longer scrutinize whether immigration agents were assaulted before opening fire; the Justice Department and DHS deny any policy change.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant on his way to a construction job, was shot dead during a Houston traffic stop. The FBI is investigating the second ICE-involved shooting in a week.
An internal memo ordered an 'immediate surge' of agents and analysts to a reinvigorated criminal investigation into Georgia's 2020 vote — the centerpiece of Trump's long-running claims that the election was stolen.
WatchFive American men face conspiracy-to-commit-murder charges over an alleged scheme to detonate explosive drones over the 'UFC Freedom 250' event and gun down fleeing officials, the Justice Department said.
New strategy targets domestic groups alongside traditional threats like Islamic terror organizations and narcoterrorists, marking shift in federal priorities.
David Rush faces charges for fraudulent time sheets while investigators discovered 303 kilograms of gold and luxury watches in his residence.
Current and former FBI officials say new internal directives let the bureau claim credit for any case in which an agent was simply present, inflating the 39 percent violent-crime arrest jump Patel touted during Police Week and prompting at least three Senate Republicans to seek a private leadership briefing.
Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Velasquez, 18, exchanged more than 11,000 messages on Discord and Telegram in the eight months before the May 17 attack that killed mosque security guard Amin Abdullah, longtime employee Mansour Kaziha and neighbor Nader Awad, federal officials disclosed Tuesday.
FBI and SDPD officials say the 17- and 18-year-old gunmen who killed three worshippers at the Islamic Center of San Diego were radicalized through a private Discord server and reconned mosques across two counties before Monday's attack.
WatchAuthorities seized more than 30 firearms and writings filled with anti-Islamic, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from homes linked to Caleb Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, as the FBI and ATF expanded their hate-crime investigation across three search warrants.
U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan rejected defense requests for more time and scheduled the former FBI director's trial in New Bern, North Carolina, where Comey faces up to 20 years on two threat-in-interstate-commerce counts.
Federal prosecutors in North Carolina charge the former FBI director with making a threat against President Trump, in a case legal scholars say tests the limits of the First Amendment.
FBI footage analysis reveals the assailant shot at a Secret Service officer before the officer returned fire during the attack.
The former FBI director faces charges stemming from a photograph of seashells posted on a North Carolina beach that the Trump administration characterized as a threat.
The charges stem from a photograph of seashells on a North Carolina beach, marking another legal development in ongoing investigations.
Justice Department agrees to payment over FBI surveillance errors during Russia investigation, acknowledging significant procedural failures in FISA applications.
The lawsuit challenges a magazine report alleging excessive drinking and frequent absences from bureau duties during his tenure as director.
The FBI director alleges defamation over article reporting excessive drinking and workplace absences. The lawsuit represents the latest clash between Trump administration officials and news media.
The Atlantic cited more than two dozen sources describing erratic behavior and unexplained absences at the bureau. Patel denied the allegations and vowed a defamation suit as the White House said he had the President's full confidence.
White-collar fraud, drug offenses, and labor trafficking cases are among the prosecutions dropped as the Justice Department pivots almost entirely to immigration enforcement.
Serial killer agreed to work with FBI behavioral analysts in unprecedented deal that could help solve other cold cases across the nation.
The lawsuit targets FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, claiming political retaliation for removing employees critical of President Trump.
The Handala group, assessed by Western researchers as an Iranian government intelligence operation, released a decade of personal correspondence in retaliation for the FBI seizing the group's domains.
Urgent instructions to gather and relay files on Representative Eric Swalwell have alarmed career law enforcement officials.
Career law enforcement officials express alarm over urgent instructions to collect and relay investigative files on the California congressman.
WatchAlexander Heifler, 26, was taken into custody in Hoboken as he assembled incendiary devices to attack the residence of Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime.
The Handala group, believed to be a front for Iran's intelligence ministry, released emails and photos from Patel's Gmail as a strategic wartime information operation, the FBI confirmed.
FBI investigation reveals resurgence of online hate group 'the Base' despite previous law enforcement efforts to dismantle the organization.
WatchThe former FBI director and special counsel, who spent nearly two years investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and charged 34 individuals, died Friday at 81, prompting an outpouring of tributes from Obama, Bush, and Comey — and a celebratory post from the president he investigated.
Mueller led the most significant FBI overhaul in history and later concluded Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Trump responded to his death saying 'Good, I'm glad.'
WatchMueller, who served as FBI director for 12 years and later as special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, died Friday night in Charlottesville, Virginia; President Trump posted on Truth Social that he was "glad" about the death.
Mueller served as FBI director for 12 years, beginning one week before 9/11, then spent two years as special counsel producing a report that charged 34 individuals and found Russia interfered 'in sweeping and systematic fashion' in the 2016 election — with President Trump responding to his death with a post saying 'Good, I'm glad he's dead.'
The initiative, flowing from AG Pam Bondi's December memo, will embed IRS Criminal Investigation agents at the FBI to scrutinize funding streams at organizations deemed 'extremist' — a definition that critics say could sweep in mainstream advocacy groups.
Kash Patel confirmed before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the FBI purchases commercially available movement data, reversing the position of his predecessor and alarming civil liberties advocates.