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Law enforcement agents intercepted a package addressed to the White House containing the toxic poison ricin earlier this week.

Hostile foreign actors, violent extremists, and domestic criminals are taking advantage of the “unique and unprecedented” impact the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is having on the FBI workforce to wreak havoc in the U.S. on several fronts, the bureau’s director Christopher Wary warned Thursday.

The FBI director said the agency is conducting “domestic terrorism” probes targeting “violent anarchists” inspired by the Antifa ideology.

FBI Director Christopher Wray indicated that Russian and Chinese hackers are trying to steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that charges have been filed against Hooman Heidarian and Mehdi Farhadi, two Iranian nationals in their 30s who allegedly carried out cyberattacks against private and public systems in the U.S., Europe, and Middle East — “sometimes at the behest of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

A security guard in Lower Manhattan allegedly pulled a gun on protesters Wednesday afternoon as they surged into 26 Federal Plaza, which houses the FBI and ICE.

Apple has turned over information on firebombing suspect Kelly Jackson, according to a report by Forbes published Monday morning.

The FBI Preliminary Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for January-June 2020 shows violent crime and property crime were both down, as compared to the same time frame in 2019, but arson was up 19.2 percent.

The current demand for guns in America is so great that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) is giving a higher number of delays and, in many cases, allowing the sale to be completed because time for the check expires.

Netflix Cheer star and former Joe Biden presidential campaign surrogate Jerry Harris is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit images and sex from minors, according to a report.

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden claimed on Sunday that a ban on “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines would save lives.

Thursday, disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok appeared on CNN’s “New Day” to discuss his new book, “Compromised.”

Multiple Chicago street gangs have struck a pact to shoot Chicago Police Department members if officers draw their weapons on suspects in public, according to a newly obtained federal intelligence warning.

The records include an email from Strzok to other FBI officials about Trump’s tweets regarding them spying on him, as well as their interaction with other media outlets, including CNN.

The DOJ announced on Friday that officials have arrested a Chinese national working as a researcher at UCLA on federal charges of destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation. The researcher allegedly destroyed evidence of his ties to the Chinese military and the transference of research to Chinese government agencies.

The FBI has arrested two Florida women for allegedly sex trafficking two 15-year-old girls.

The DOJ announced it will prosecute 74 people for crimes committed during violent protests that have occurred nightly in Portland, Oregon.

Multiple American agencies, including the FBI and Department of the Treasury, warned on Wednesday that a hacking syndicate affiliated with North Korea is installing malware in ATMs around the world, stealing billions to fund the regime.

A previously deported illegal alien has been named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a suspect in 55-year-old Jacqueline Vigil’s murder in November 2019. 

The Department of Justice is deploying federal resources to Wisconsin after a deadly shooting in riot-torn Kenosha left two people dead, a spokesperson for the federal agency said Wednesday. 

Federal authorities allege that Texas A&M Professor Zhengdong Cheng lied to his employers about his relationship with the communist Chinese government. Cheng, who has also served as a NASA researcher, was reportedly found to have undisclosed ties to a Chinese university.

U.S. Attorney John Durham interviewed former President Obama’s CIA chief John Brennan on Friday as part of his probe into the Obama administration’s investigation of the Trump campaign, according to a report.

A threat of attack has closed the federal bankruptcy court, courthouse, and another federal building in Portland, authorities said.

Retired CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested Friday and charged with selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Chinese agents.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) stated that he thinks Postmaster General Louis DeJoy should be investigated by the FBI and could potentially “be tampering with a federal election.” Host Anderson Cooper asked,

Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the Massachusetts district, said U.S. Attorney for the the District of Connecticut John Durham is an apolitical prosecutor, offering his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

A Queens man who allegedly set a police car on fire in July spray-painted “TOO LATE!” on his wall to taunt agents before being taken into custody.

“That’s just the beginning I would imagine,” Trump said, describing Clinesmith as “a corrupt attorney” working for “James Comey’s very corrupt FBI.”

Clinesmith will plead guilty to a felony count for falsifying an email that was used to obtain a wiretap on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.