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Cyberattacks on Minnesota water systems investigated as officials warn about Iranian hackers
Authorities were working Thursday to find the source of cyberattacks that targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota and came amid warnings that Iranian hackers have been focused on such systems. Minnesota IT Services said state officials had yet to identify who was behind the attacks that took place Sunday and Monday.
Top FBI agent in Chicago abruptly leaving post after being pushed to retire, AP sources say
Follow Top FBI agent in Chicago abruptly leaving post after being pushed to retire, AP sources say ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Updated Thu, July 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal Bureau of Investigation insignias adorn desks in the agency's Joint Operations Center in New York, Thursday, June 4, 2026, ahead of the World Cup soccer tournament.
Justice Department withdraws subpoenas that sought reporters' grand jury testimony, sources say
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department issued and then withdrew subpoenas that sought to compel reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to testify before a grand jury, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pam Bondi no pudo procesar a rivales de Trump. ¿Cambiará algo un nuevo secretario de Justicia?
La secretaria de Justicia Pam Bondi participa en una reunión en la Casa Blanca, el 26 de marzo de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon) Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON (AP) — La exsecretaria de Justicia de Estados Unidos, Pam Bondi, se quedó sin trabajo después de que no lograra presentar casos penales contra los enemigos políticos del presidente Donald Trump. Pero no hay garantía de que su sucesor vaya a tener más éxito a la hora de apaciguar al presidente.
A conviction may be beside the point for the Justice Department as it pursues case against Comey
WASHINGTON — (AP) — For a Justice Department facing intense White House pressure to investigate perceived presidential enemies, indicting former FBI Director James Comey was the easy part. Building a case that can sway a jury beyond a reasonable doubt is a significantly tougher task, but like in other cases of investigations of President Donald Trump's critics, it increasingly seems to be almost beside the point.
Taliban frees an American man who was abducted while traveling in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration that Qatari negotiators helped broker, the State Department said Thursday. George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January.
Justice Department report finds 'cascading failures' and 'no urgency' during Uvalde, Texas, shooting
UVALDE, Texas — Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of the deadliest massacres at a school in American history.
Why Republicans are clashing with the FBI over a confidential Biden document
Jose Luis Magana, ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2023. The years-long feud between congressional Republicans and the FBI is reaching a new level of rancor. Lawmakers are preparing a resolution to hold FBI director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments Tuesday on whether to shut down an independent arbiter’s review of documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. The Justice Department has asked the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to end the review process, saying the appointment of a so-called special master has unnecessarily delayed its investigation into the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
US Embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russian prison
WASHINGTON — Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow visited jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, more than a week after a Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession.
US Embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russian prison
WASHINGTON — Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow visited jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, more than a week after a Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession.
US Embassy officials visit Brittney Griner in Russian prison
WASHINGTON — Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow visited jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday, more than a week after a Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession.
Chicago-area contractor Mark Frerichs freed by Taliban in swap, family says
The family of a U.S. veteran and civilian contractor Mark Frerichs, held more than 2 years in Afghanistan by Taliban, said on Monday that he has been freed by the Taliban. Frerichs’ release appears to have been part of a swap and came as an imprisoned Taliban drug lord also said he had been freed from American custody. Frerichs’ sister said in a statement that her family had prayed every day for his release. Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor, was kidnapped in Afghanistan on Jan.
President Biden to meet with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, the White House announced Thursday.
President Biden to meet with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, the White House announced Thursday.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker - Associated Press Follow AP’s coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings at https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege. WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, a Republican congressional leader and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, instead “pouring gasoline on the fire” by aggressively tweeting his false claims of a stolen election and celebrating his crowd of supporters as “very special,” the House investigating committee showed Thursday night.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, Republican congressional leaders and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan.
Jan. 6: Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob
By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite desperate pleas from aides, allies, Republican congressional leaders and even his family, Donald Trump refused to call off the Jan.
Brittney Griner’s phone call to her wife to be rescheduled after US officials make ‘unfortunate mistake’ and ‘logistical error’
WASHINGTON — A phone call between jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner and her wife is being rescheduled after an earlier attempt to connect on the couple’s anniversary failed because of an “unfortunate mistake,” Biden administration officials said Tuesday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the State Department was working to arrange a new call but did not say when that would be.
Brittney Griner’s scheduled anniversary call never happened, her wife says, because US embassy in Russia wasn’t staffed
WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple’s fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected because the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday. The couple has not spoken by phone in the four months since Griner’s arrest in Russia, where she remains jailed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI thwarted a planned cyberattack on a children’s hospital in Boston that was to have been carried out by hackers sponsored by the Iranian government, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign who is charged with lying to the FBI early in the Trump-Russia probe sought to “use and manipulate” federal law enforcement to create an “October surprise” in the final weeks of the presidential race, a prosecutor alleged Tuesday at the start of his trial. Defense lawyers told jurors he never lied.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Venezuelan government has freed two jailed Americans, including an oil executive imprisoned alongside colleagues for more than four years, as it seeks to improve relations with the Biden administration amid Russia’s war with Ukraine, the White House announced Tuesday night. Gustavo Cardenas was released following a secret weekend visit to Venezuela by senior Biden administration officials, the first White House trip to the county in more than two decades.
Justice Dept. announces $3.6B cryptocurrency seizure, 2 arrests
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced Tuesday its largest-ever financial seizure — more than $3.5 billion — and the arrests of a New York couple accused of conspiring to launder billions of dollars in cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hack of a virtual currency exchange. Federal law enforcement officials said they recovered roughly $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Friday that it had been hacked and had data stolen from journalists and other employees, and a cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion said Chinese intelligence-gathering was believed behind the operation. The Journal, citing people briefed on the intrusion, reported that it appeared to date back to February 2020 and that scores of employees were impacted.
WASHINGTON (AP) — News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Friday that it had been hacked and had data stolen from journalists and other employees, and a cybersecurity firm investigating the intrusion said Chinese intelligence-gathering was believed behind the operation. The Journal, citing people briefed on the intrusion, reported that it appeared to date back to February 2020 and that scores of employees were impacted.
Lawyers deny Maryland spy suspect discussed fleeing to evade arrest
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Navy nuclear engineer from Annapolis charged with trying to pass submarine secrets
In this Friday, July 30, 2004, file photo, the U.S.S. Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, after its first sea trials. A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Oct. 10, 2021.
Trump to invoke executive privilege in Jan. 6 House investigation
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