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Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing for a group of men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan’s governor.

Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home. Six men were charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap the governor in reaction to what they viewed as her “uncontrolled power,”…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer thanked law enforcement on Thursday for their work in foiling a plot to kidnap her from her vacation home. The governor also accused President Donald Trump of encouraging extremism when he refused to condemn white supremacists during last week’s debate.

The FBI arrested at least six men on Thursday for plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

Director Billy Ray gets candid on his upcoming Showtime political drama “The Comey Rule,” which stars actor Jeff Daniels and chronicles the relationship between former FBI Director James Comey and President Trump during the first months of his presidency.

Federal authorities say Diane Sylvia of Somers Point asked her patient, a former gangster, to connect her to a hitman. Then an FBI agent stepped in.

Asked if he thinks he knows better than his experts, including the CDC and FBI directors, President Donald Trump said, “Yeah, in many cases I do.” The question came days after Trump said CDC Director Robert Redfield was incorrect when he said the coronavirus vaccine wouldn’t be available until later next year.

FBI Director Chris Wray says he regards antifa as more of an ideology than an organization.

According to USA Today, who cite multiple sources, authorities are looking into allegations that the 21-year-old “Cheer” star solicited sexually explicit photos and sex from minors.

A former FDNY EMT — and son of a high-ranking FDNY official — who allegedly impersonated an NYPD officer over the years was arrested for robbing an alleged drug dealer of nearly 200 oxycodone pills, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court of Eastern District of New York. Robert Gala, 28 and of Sheepshead Bay, was arrested…

David Dunn resigned from his position as Bridgeport’s acting personnel director Friday, a day after his arrest on federal fraud charges, according to Mayor Joe Ganim’s office. Dunn and former police chief Armando “AJ” Perez were arrested by the FBI on Thursday. The pair are accused of manipulating the city’s examination process to hire a police chief in 2018....

Bridgeport’s police chief has been arrested by the FBI and face federal charges for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Attorney General William Barr was in Chicago on Wednesday to lay out the scope of “Operation Legend”, which was deployed by the Department of Justice in an effort to help curb an uptick in violent crime across the country.

A former FBI agent who was fired because of derogatory text messages about Donald Trump writes in a new book that he believes the president has been compromised by Russia

Federal and state investigators raided a Pennsylvania nursing home Thursday where hundreds of residents and staff members tested positive for coronavirus and dozens have died, authorities said. NBC News reports investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general’s office and other agencies executed the search warrant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center northeast of Pittsburgh, said...

Facebook said Tuesday that it removed a small network of accounts and pages linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” that has used social media accounts to sow political discord in the U.S. since the 2016 presidential election

Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run.

A former FBI lawyer has pleaded guilty to altering a document related to the secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser during the Russia investigation

FBI agents have arrested Puerto Rico Rep. María Milagros Charbonier after the legislator who once presided over the island’s House Ethics Committee was charged in a public corruption case that officials say also involved her son, husband and an assistant