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The new boss at the Dallas FBI office met the media as he marks his first 100 days on the job. Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock said he’ll focus on helping local police tackle violent crime. NBC 5 senior investigative reporter Scott Friedman reports he also spoke about the FBI’s increased role in immigration enforcement — and efforts to...

Dallas FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock met with the media Tuesday, as he marks his first 100 days on the job. Under his leadership, he said the FBI office that covers a vast area of northern Texas will focus heavily on helping local police fight violent crime. “When we think about violent crime, we look at it in…

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.”

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.

The FBI is warning the public to remain vigilant when it comes to a rising number of attacks on Tesla vehicles. NBC 5’s Larry Collins tells us more.

The FBI in Dallas added and located seven fugitives to the list in its 75 year history.

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.

President Donald Trump said he intended to fire some of the FBI personnel who worked on Capitol riot cases, asserting without providing evidence that some of them were “corrupt.”

In a little noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by adversaries.

A top Justice Department official accused the FBI’s acting leaders of “insubordination” in a Wednesday memo in which he sought to soothe anxiety inside the bureau over the potential for a broad purge of agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.