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11 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 15, 2026.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WatchFor the first time since the war began, top U.S. intelligence officials faced Congress — and declined to back the administration's core rationale for striking Iran, as the resignation of a key counterterrorism official cast a shadow over two days of testimony.
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.