Two former senior FBI officials who helped lead the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) during the 2020 election have been charged with lying to Congress about what they knew and their involvement in investigations into Hunter Biden’s laptop. The case, brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia under Jeanine Pirro, has revived long-standing questions about how the FBI handled the laptop story in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaig

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday praised the agency’s rapid and professional response to a hostage situation in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest that ended with the safe release of two U.S. Forest Service employees and the custody of two suspects.

In a swift international operation that underscores the current administration’s aggressive push against government waste and fraud, federal authorities have captured Herbert Leon Kimble, the 60-year-old mastermind behind one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in U.S. history. Kimble, who had been on the run for nearly two years after pleading guilty, was arrested in the Philippines and returned to the United States to face sentencing. The case involves more than $1.2 bill

Additional reporting confirms that Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, the 31-year-old Omaha, Nebraska man described by federal authorities as a key ringleader (or “Shepherd”) in the foiled assassination plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event, entered the United States illegally. Alleged ringleader Abraham Alvarez - Fair Use Credit: whsv.com This revelation adds a critical layer to the already alarming story of homegrown radicalization mixed with failures in immigration enforcement

In a case highlighting the boundaries between free speech and criminal threats in the digital age, Desiree Doreen Segari, a 41-year-old resident of Sarasota, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury in Tampa on March 10, 2026. Segari was found guilty of interstate communication of a threat to injure under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), stemming from two inflammatory TikTok videos she posted in August 2025.