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The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, told bureau officials on Friday that he wanted to send 1,000 agents from the Washington area to field offices across the country, with another 500 support staff members reassigned to the bureau’s sprawling campus in Alabama, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Patel, newly sworn in as director after…
Washington: The Republican-controlled US Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist of President Donald Trump, to be director of the FBI, the country’s top law enforcement agency. Patel, 44, whose nomination sparked fierce but ultimately futile opposition from Democrats, was approved by a 51-49 vote. The vote was split along party lines with…
The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed Kash Patel as the next director of the F.B.I., installing a hard-line critic of the bureau whose unwavering loyalty to President Trump has raised questions over the independence of the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. The 51-to-49 vote, with two Republican defections, means that Mr. Patel will now…
Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist held for nearly half a century for the killing of two F.B.I. agents, was released from a federal prison in Central Florida on Tuesday morning. Mr. Peltier, 80, will serve the remainder of his two life sentences in home confinement in North Dakota, where he is a member…
Vice President JD Vance declared on Sunday that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” delivering a warning shot to the federal judiciary in the face of court rulings that have, for now, stymied aspects of President Trump’s agenda. The statement, issued on social media, came as federal judges have temporarily barred a…
Burned shells of abandoned cars and metal debris sat scattered along the charred streets. Soot stained homes that had been engulfed in flames. A crater in a sidewalk outside a Macy’s department store smoldered. Residents in Northeast Philadelphia on Saturday stood in disbelief at the devastation they witnessed in their neighborhood after a small medical…
An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators on Tuesday that accused Mr. Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, of being so “abusive” toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had a safe word to call for help if she needed to get…
The top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee were briefed late Friday afternoon on the findings from the F.B.I.’s background check of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to serve as defense secretary, according to two people aware of the briefings. Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi and the chairman of the armed…
The Islamic State lauded the man who killed 14 people when he rammed a truck into a busy New Orleans street early on New Year’s Day, with the group claiming in a digital newsletter dated Thursday that its online propaganda had inspired the attack. The group said the attacker who ran over pedestrians walking on…
The driver in the deadly Jan. 1 ramming attack in New Orleans visited the city twice in the months before he armed himself with guns and explosives and plowed a rented truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, investigators said on Sunday. In one visit in October, he cruised through the city’s French Quarter wearing…
