Investigations

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EXCLUSIVE

Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington

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Russia-Ukraine Conflict

U.S. intel chief says Russia is using up ammunition in Ukraine faster than it can replace it

President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

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News

Biden vowed 'consequences' for Saudi Arabia after oil production cut. But the U.S. has no plans to follow through.

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National Security

FBI director defends investigations of Chinese academics in front of university audience

Symone

Legal Analysts Discuss Special Counsel Appointment for Trump Investigation

Former President Trump says he’s “not going to partake” in the recently announced special counsel investigation. Legal analysts Paul Butler and Glenn Kirschner dig into what the attorney general’s special counsel appointment means for the Trump investigations.

Investigations

U.S. soldiers attend a joint military exercise between forces of the U.S.-led "Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve" coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces

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ISIS Terror

Syrian rebels say anti-ISIS operations with U.S. have stopped, ISIS fighters may escape from prisons

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Immigration

Border crossings are near record highs and may go up more on Dec. 21

Tiandy Technologies Co.'s Surveillance Systems In The Chinese City Of Tianjin

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National Security

Chinese firm selling surveillance tech to Iran comes under scrutiny

Coronavirus

Executives at 'fintechs' made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says

News

Jeffrey Epstein's estate agrees to pay the Virgin Islands more than $105 million to settle civil suit

All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., held a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q.

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National Security

DHS warns of domestic terror threats to LGBTQ, Jewish and migrant communities

Americans motivated by violent ideologies pose a “persistent and lethal threat,” a senior DHS official said in a briefing about a new Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at PO Taufique Bokth, PO Brunel Victor receiving proclamations on saving the life of a man who collapsed on subway tracks on 116th street station in New York on November 28, 2022. Mayor presented proclamations to both officers and mentioned that there was also a good Samaritan who helped to save the life of the man on tracks and left without trace. Mayor was joined by Police commissioner Keechant Sewell, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber, Deputy Mayor of New York City for Public Safety Philip Banks III, NYPD Chief of Transit Jason Willcox and many police officers.

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U.S. news

New York City will involuntarily hospitalize more mentally ill people under new plan

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News

Brett Favre files motion to dismiss lawsuit in Mississippi welfare fraud case

The USA team during the national anthem before their match against Wales in Ar-Rayyan, Qatar, on Nov. 21, 2022.

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World Cup

Political hostility between U.S. and Iran adds to tension before crucial World Cup match

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News

FTX’s regulatory chief had 4 job titles in 2 years. What was he really doing?

Former NFL quarterback Brett Farve attends a game between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 16, 2016, in Green Bay, Wis.

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News

Brett Favre helped an experimental drug maker get $2M in welfare money. Experts doubt the drug can work.

Penn Station in New York City, where two men suspected of tageting a Manhattan synogogue were arrested Saturday.

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U.S. news

Suspects in antisemitic threats targeted N.Y. synagogue, D.A. says

Police respond to shooting at a nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed at least 5 on Nov. 20, 2022.

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Guns in America

5 killed after gunman opens fire at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs

Ayatollah Khomeini addresses an audience in the airport building in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 1, 1979, after his arrival from 14 years of exile. (AP Photo)

World

Iranian activists say fire set at ancestral home of late leader Ayatollah Khomeini

Image: Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 18, 2022.

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Trump special counsel

Attorney General Merrick Garland names special counsel in Justice Dept.'s Trump probes

Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg arrives to court

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Donald Trump

Former Trump Org. CFO testifies Trump kids gave him a raise after finding out about tax schemes

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News

Fugitive California couple convicted in massive Covid fraud extradited to the U.S.

Image: Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, left, arrives to the courtroom in New York on Nov. 17, 2022.

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Donald Trump

Ex-Trump Organization CFO says Trump family was in the dark about tax fraud scheme

Medication sits on a mailed envelope.

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Health news

Oklahoma proposes landmark rule to keep mailed medications safe from extreme temperatures

FBI Director Christopher Wray, joined at left by Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaks to reporters as they announce charges against two men suspected of being Chinese intelligence officers for attempting to obstruct a U.S. criminal investigation and prosecution of Chinese tech giant Huawei, at the Department of Justice in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2022.

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National Security

Chinese intelligence officer sentenced to 20 years in federal prison

In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. Spontaneous mass gatherings to persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded elsewhere in Iran, as nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police enter their fourth week.

World

Iran plotted to kidnap or kill at least 10 people in the U.K., British domestic spy chief says

A long-tailed macaque near Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

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News

Justice Department charges 8 in alleged international monkey smuggling ring

Clashes at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017.

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National Security

FBI, Twitter, TikTok must fight harder against domestic extremism, Senate report says

Marsha Small at the Red Cloud Indian School's historic cemetery in May.

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Specials

A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past

A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to seek asylum, in Yuma, Ariz., on June 10, 2021.

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Immigration

Judge blocks Trump-era border rule known as Title 42 that expelled migrants at U.S. border