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The FBI is warning the public about the latest scam targeting elderly people, and they say it’s a nationwide trend, exemplified by a case in Pembroke Pines last week. Police arrested a man who they say ripped off an 85-year-old man by first pretending to be a bank employee and then by posing as an FBI agent. “It’s an...

The FBI is warning South Florida residents after a rise in cases involving FBI impersonators.

A judge in Milwaukee is accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The case immediately became a high-profile confrontation between the Trump administration and judiciary over the Republican administration’s immigration policies.

Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by FBI agents in the Milwaukee County Courthouse parking lot on April 25. Here’s what you need to know.

The FBI in Miami is warning about an increase in scams targeting South Florida residents over the phone. The scam starts with a phone call, in which callers identify themselves as federal officers and tell people to “wire or mail ‘settlement’ money or to assist law enforcement with an investigation against a bank.” Authorities warn that the calls can seem…

Cybercriminals and online scammers stole a record $16.6 billion last year, the FBI said Wednesday.

Patel, who is now the FBI director, included Brian Auten on a list of roughly 60 alleged “deep state” actors in his 2023 book, “Government Gangsters.”

The owner of a Coconut Grove art gallery raided by the FBI is facing charges related to the sale of fake Andy Warhol artwork, according to new court documents.

XiaoFeng Wang’s research at Indiana University focused on security and privacy issues in mobile and cloud computing, and privacy issues in human genomic data.

An individual wanted for murder and transnational drug distribution was added the the FBI list of top-10 fugitives, the agency announced Thursday.

The top FBI official who defiantly proclaimed last month he was prepared to “dig in” for a “battle” with the Trump administration over its request for the names of FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6th cases retired under pressure today as the leader of the New York field office, five sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The White House said on Friday that the FBI had given President Donald Trump boxes stemming from a search of his Florida property for classified documents that were taken after Trump left office during his first term, NBC News reported.

Dan Bongino — who once called the FBI “irredeemably corrupt”— suggested on his podcast Monday that he was prepared to step out of his role as a MAGA warrior.

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced the selection of conservative commentator and former Fox News host Dan Bongino to serve as deputy FBI director, filling a position typically held by a career FBI agent with an influential media personality who has called for mass firings at the bureau.

President Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed FBI director, Kash Patel, is expected to take on another top law enforcement role in the administration as head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to a White House official and two other sources familiar with the plan.

The plans, which were communicated the same day Patel was sworn in, reflect his long-stated determination to reduce the FBI’s footprint in Washington.

The Trump loyalist is taking over a bureau in turmoil over firings and an effort to gather names of people who worked on Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent a letter to the Justice Department Inspector General accusing Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick for FBI director, of secretly orchestrating the firings of FBI officials.

The process of storing and electronically inventorying closed case files from field offices across the country at a central records complex began in 2020, the agency said.

The Office of Personnel Management asked the FBI for a list of probationary employees, sparking new fears at a bureau that has undergone major changes since Trump retook office.