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Chief in charge of intel before Capitol riot returns to post

August 18, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Yogananda Pittman, the Capitol Police official who led intelligence operations for the agency when thousands of Donald Trump loyalists descended on the building last January, is back in...

Officer dead, suspect killed in violence outside Pentagon

August 3, 2021 at 7:56 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by...

Democrats renew questions about FBI background check of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

July 24, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI's background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received...

Federal law enforcement agencies’ targeting of Americans鈥� records “routine,” Microsoft exec says

June 30, 2021 at 10:16 a.m.

Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year, according to congressional testimony Wednesday by a senior executive at the technology company.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announces the recovery of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the Colonial Pipeline Co. ransomware attacks as she speaks during a news conference with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Stephanie Hinds at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, June 7, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Colonial Pipeline CEO: Ransom payment among my “toughest decisions”

June 8, 2021 at 1:03 p.m.

The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month told senators on Tuesday that authorizing a multi-million-dollar payment to hackers was the right thing to do...

US recovers most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack

June 7, 2021 at 6:01 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has recovered most of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment made to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline...

Key impeachment witness Gordon Sondland sues Mike Pompeo over $1.8 million in legal fees

May 24, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

Gordon Sondland, the Trump administration's ambassador to the European Union and a pivotal witness in 2019 impeachment proceedings, sued former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday in an effort...

FILE – In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Biden administration faces increasing pressure to respond to a sharply growing number of reported injuries suffered by diplomats, intelligence officers and military personnel that some suspect are caused by devices that emit waves of energy that disrupt brain function. The problem has been labeled the “Havana Syndrome,” because the first cases affected personnel in 2016 at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Growing mystery of suspected energy attacks draws U.S. concern

May 24, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

The Biden administration is facing new pressure to resolve a mystery that has vexed its predecessors: Is an adversary using a microwave or radio wave weapon to attack the brains...

Christopher Miller, former acting secretary of ...

Hearing on Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol violence exposes stark partisan divisions

May 12, 2021 at 1:47 p.m.

Republicans sought to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 insurrection during a rancorous congressional hearing Wednesday, painting the Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol as patriots harassed by law...

Major U.S. pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack

May 8, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

The operator of a pipeline that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it was the victim of a ransomware attack and temporarily halted all pipeline operations.

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