Authorities are crediting the TV show "America's Most Wanted" for helping in the capture of a double murder suspect on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives.
FBI officials, while admitting a mistake, are offering more evidence to support their assertion that government scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax-laced mailings that killed five people in 2001.
New rules on FBI investigations of national security cases should be delayed, top Senate Judiciary Committee members said Monday
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Point-shaving allegations against a former University of Toledo basketball player are related to gambling charges filed last year against a former Toledo football player, an FBI spokeswoman said.
The FBI is investigating two bombings that targeted university scientists, the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities say
While Congress and the Bush administration are focusing on bailing out struggling homeowners and financial companies, another group of federal officials are going after the people who helped propel the country into the mortgage crisis.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
Only one of the nearly 2,000 guests who attended the FBI's 100th birthday party Thursday was alive when a handful of investigators formed what was to become the world's premier law enforcement agency.
The Teflon Don is dead and gone. The Mustache Petes of the Mafia's old guard are mostly behind bars. And the crime rackets have gone global.
Authorities are crediting the TV show "America's Most Wanted" for helping in the capture of a double murder suspect on the FBI's list of 10 most-wanted fugitives.
FBI officials, while admitting a mistake, are offering more evidence to support their assertion that government scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax-laced mailings that killed five people in 2001.
New rules on FBI investigations of national security cases should be delayed, top Senate Judiciary Committee members said Monday
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Point-shaving allegations against a former University of Toledo basketball player are related to gambling charges filed last year against a former Toledo football player, an FBI spokeswoman said.
The FBI is investigating two bombings that targeted university scientists, the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities say
While Congress and the Bush administration are focusing on bailing out struggling homeowners and financial companies, another group of federal officials are going after the people who helped propel the country into the mortgage crisis.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
Only one of the nearly 2,000 guests who attended the FBI's 100th birthday party Thursday was alive when a handful of investigators formed what was to become the world's premier law enforcement agency.
The Teflon Don is dead and gone. The Mustache Petes of the Mafia's old guard are mostly behind bars. And the crime rackets have gone global.
Now-defunct IndyMac Bancorp Inc. is under investigation by the FBI for possible fraud in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers
Behind closed doors, the scientists and agents of the FBI scrutinize fibers, poisons, explosives, DNA and just about any other shred of evidence that might help solve crimes.
The FBI earned its reputation hunting down bank robbers and other outlaws in the heydays of Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone.
An Illinois man was charged with possession of a potentially deadly neurotoxin commonly found in puffer fish after the FBI led a raid at his home Monday.
In a series of raids, authorities have arrested more than 300 members of prostitution operations and removed 21 juveniles from sex-selling rings, the FBI announced Wednesday.
Hundreds of people across the country have been arrested by law enforcement officials targeting crooked mortgage brokers, real estate agents, and other industry officials, the head of the FBI and a top Justice Department official said Thursday.
FBI background checks of potential U.S. immigrants are slow and unreliable, the Justice Department's internal watchdog agency said in a highly critical report Monday.
Violent crime in the United States declined 1.4 percent in 2007 compared with 2006, ending a two-year run during which the statistic increased, according to a preliminary FBI report issued Monday.
The FBI did not participate in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan or Iraq, said a Justice Department investigation released Tuesday.
FBI officials Tuesday disclosed complaints of mortgage fraud are piling up at record levels this year, and appear certain to shatter last year's record.
The FBI's counter-terrorism unit is trying to determine who detonated a small explosive device early Sunday at the federal courthouse in San Diego, California.
A U.S. Navy civilian contractor has been charged with trying to sell personal information about thousands of military personnel and reservists to a person he thought was a foreign spy, the FBI said.
A Georgia military contractor tricked law enforcement agencies into buying faulty stun grenades, ultimately leaving three FBI agents injured, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday
The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials on a flight from Orlando to Jamaica admitted he planned to build a bomb after he landed, according to an FBI agent.
The FBI needs more than 1,000 new agents, intelligence analysts and support staff to expand its ability to combat terrorism, spying and other national security threats, bureau director Robert Mueller tells House members Tuesday during a Capitol Hill appearance to push for a $450 million budget increase.
Four of the 12 people wounded in the weekend bombing of an Islamabad restaurant are U.S. FBI agents, the bureau confirmed Sunday.
A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds.
The FBI continued in 2006 to badly mishandle letters that it uses to obtain personal records without a court order, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday.
Fourteen Americans are in custody as part of a global crackdown on a well-organized child porn ring that used sophisticated encryption technology, the FBI and Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Four Utah locations searched for ricin are safe, according to an FBI agent involved in the investigation of a man who may have been exposed to the deadly poison.
Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland Security assessment concludes.
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
The FBI on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations in connection with risky home loans
Complaints about potential mortgage fraud are up during the subprime mortgage crisis, and the FBI has opened criminal investigations of 14 companies related to subprime mortgage loans, the agency said Tuesday.
The FBI has not yet interviewed five "key" members of a Blackwater security team involved in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis, a Blackwater spokeswoman said Wednesday.
In what one FBI spokesman described as "almost an annual ritual," the bureau has obtained uncorroborated intelligence indicating al Qaeda would like to strike shopping malls during the holiday shopping season, two law enforcement sources said Thursday.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are urging state and local law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for the possible use of shoes to conceal and smuggle explosive components.
Survivors of a September 16 incident in which the Iraqi government accuses Blackwater USA security guards of fatally shooting 17 Iraqi civilians without provocation have told FBI investigators harrowing stories of their ordeals.
The FBI has assumed the lead from the State Department on the investigation into last month's Baghdad shootings involving contractors from the U.S. security firm Blackwater USA, the State Department said Thursday.
The FBI is searching for the four-person crew of a Miami Beach charter boat as part of an investigation into what a bureau spokeswoman called "a possible crime on the seas."
Federal investigators are looking overseas for clues and suspects in a scam that uses bomb threats to extort money from banks and stores, law enforcement officials told CNN.
The FBI wants to question two men who were described as behaving oddly on a Washington state ferry earlier this summer.
The CIA's declassified report, says Robert Baer, shows that the attack could have been prevented if the various intel agencies were able to talk to each other
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ignored or dropped leads and at times entire cases involving terrorist activities because of disputes with the FBI, says a report
Airlines sued the CIA and the FBI, asking a federal court to let them interview investigators who can tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for Sept. 11
Police and FBI agents are investigating the discovery of an empty rocket launcher tube on the front lawn of a Jersey City, New Jersey, home, FBI spokesman Sean Quinn said.
Law enforcement agencies across the nation have received as many as 40 copycat threats to schools since Monday's Virginia Tech massacre, according to the FBI.
Preliminary information suggests an FBI agent killed Thursday during an attempted arrest of three bank-robbery suspects in New Jersey may have been accidentally shot by an another agent, the bureau said in a statement.
The United States is investigating a report of a former FBI agent missing in Iran, officials said Monday.
Running a Web site that publishes reviews of camcorders sounds like a tame line of work. But I had a moment of terror when an executive at a major electronics manufacturer accused me of hacking into the corporation's computer system to get information about a new product.
RUNNING A WEBSITE THAT PUBLISHES REVIEWS of camcorders sounds like a tame line of work. But I had a moment of terror when an executive at a major electronics manufacturer accused me of hacking into...
The FBI lost at least 10 laptop computers containing classified information during a four-year period ending in 2005, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
An internal Justice Department report concluded the FBI should have notified the House of Representatives or other officials after learning last summer of inappropriate e-mails former Rep. Mark Foley sent to a House page.
The FBI on Tuesday released documents showing at least 26 of the agency's employees witnessed aggressive mistreatment and harsh interrogation techniques of prisoners by other government agencies or outside contractors at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The imprisoned blind cleric who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing has been hospitalized, raising fears of new attacks if he dies in U.S. custody, the FBI said in a bulletin.
St. Louis has been judged the most dangerous city in the United States, according to a survey released Monday by Morgan Quitno Press, an independent research publisher in Lawrence, Kansas.
Mortgage fraud is one of the fastest growing white collar crimes, according to the FBI, with reports more than quadrupling since 2001.
A college student was detained Friday after customs agents found what they suspected was dynamite in his checked luggage, but authorities said he was not involved in terrorism.
Nine Egyptian students out of 11 who went missing in the United States two weeks ago are in custody, a government statement said Saturday.
Police may be close to finding two more of the missing Egyptian students who failed to show up at Montana State University, a school spokeswoman said Friday.
Six of 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up for classes after entering the United States are in federal custody, the FBI said Thursday.
The FBI appropriately handled the September 2005 shooting death of a Puerto Rican independence movement leader, a Justice Department investigation concluded Wednesday.
Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid student visas, then failed to show up at a university in Montana, authorities said.
U.S. and international authorities disrupted a plot by eight terrorists to blow up a commuter train tunnel connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, the FBI announced Friday.
A federal grand jury in South Florida returned a four-count indictment Thursday against seven individuals arrested in an FBI antiterrorism sting operation. Click the subjects below for details in the indictment:
A prison guard's unauthorized gun is at the center of an FBI investigation into how a routine arrest Wednesday turned into a gunbattle that killed a federal agent and the guard.
In a rare intervention into a criminal investigation, President Bush decided to seal documents that the FBI had seized from the office of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, a White House official said Friday.
The FBI wants to interview top members of Congress from both parties about the leak to The New York Times concerning the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, sources told CNN.
The family of late columnist Jack Anderson has rejected the FBI's demand to grant government investigators access to the famed muckraker's papers and notes.
The FBI warned law enforcement officers and stadium managers Friday of the possibility of suicide bombings at college basketball tournaments, based on an Internet posting advocating attacks at sporting events.
At Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial, an FBI agent testified Tuesday about al Qaeda's training manual, what the FBI knew prior to 9/11 about al Qaeda operatives' lessons at U.S. flight schools, and missed opportunities to learn more.
A whitish-brown powder at the center of a poison scare at the University of Texas has tested negative for the powerful toxin ricin, an FBI spokesman said Sunday.
Federal and state authorities are investigating Web sites that promise to generate generous returns to viewers who look at their ads, according to a report published Friday.
Another terrorist wanted in the United States was identified among the escapees from a Yemeni prison last week, the FBI said Wednesday.
An e-mail seeking financial aid for Randy McCloy Jr., the sole survivor of a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 12, is a fraud, the FBI said Wednesday.
A woman accused of being a Chinese double agent pleaded guilty Friday to lesser charges -- a tax violation and lying to authorities about her longtime affair with an FBI counterintelligence agent.
The FBI on Thursday asked for help in apprehending members of the "Gate Cutters Jewelry Crew," which authorities say has made off with more than $5.1 million in jewelry and gems from 56 stores along the East Coast.
How did two pricey Van Goghs become Van Gone?
A government watchdog is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate at least 13 occasions of alleged improper use of FBI surveillance, including searches and seizures of e-mail and bank records.
The former members of the 9/11 commission slammed the FBI on Thursday for the pace of its reforms, saying the agency has fought the changes more than expected and warning that "terrorists will not wait."
Crime continues to fall in the United States, according to the latest FBI statistics.
The U.S. violent crime rate declined 2.2 percent last year, continuing a decade-long downward trend in serious offenses, the FBI said Monday.
The FBI says terrorists connected with al Qaeda might try to use explosives-laden trucks to ram fuel tanker trucks in New York, Los Angeles, California, or Chicago, Illinois, between now and Sept. 19.
The Social Security Administration allowed the FBI to search its files as part of the terrorism investigation after the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to government documents released Wednesday by a privacy group.
The Saudis get blamed for not revealing more after 9/11. Maybe they said more than the FBI took in.
W. Mark Felt, better known as "Deep Throat," has sold book and film rights to his life story for undisclosed sums to PublicAffairs and Universal Pictures, the companies said Thursday.
FBI officials said they hope to award a contract by the year's end for a complex new software program to replace a failed project that was canceled this year at a cost of more than $100 million to taxpayers.
Mark Felt, finally revealed as the "Deep Throat" who divulged the Watergate scandal, is wearing the hero's laurel 32 years later.
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is considering a draft bill that would reauthorize some of the most controversial provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act. The bill is called the Patriot Reauthorization Act (PAREA).
The FBI's former second-in-command, W. Mark Felt, has told his family that he is "Deep Throat," the source of Washington Post stories about the Watergate scandal that's captivated Washington for more than 30 years,Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday.
Detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleged in 2002 that guards mistreated the Quran, according to some of the hundreds of FBI documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union.
A 16-month old boy who was reported missing after his mother was found dead is safe and in the custody of New Mexico authorities, the FBI said Saturday.
A young girl seen on child pornography Web sites has been found and is safe, an FBI spokesman told CNN Friday.
Three doctors from the Westchester suburbs of New York City allegedly provided mob figures with erectile dysfunction drugs in exchange for various favors, the FBI said Thursday.
An ex-FBI agent serving 10 years for tipping off a reputed crime boss was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy Wednesday, CNN has learned.
A regular feature of Nancy Grace's show is "All Points Bulletin," where a suspect sought by law enforcement authorities is profiled.
It was in a modest Manhattan hotel where the FBI arrested the alleged ringleaders and says it foiled a plot to import Russian-style military weapons into the United States.
Don't open those e-mail attachments that appear to be from the FBI. They might contain a computer virus.
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