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The man who killed 58 people and injured at least 515 others at a Las Vegas concert was a retiree with no criminal history in the Nevada county where he lived, police said Monday. The brother of Stephen Paddock, 64, said he's "completely dumbfounded" by the shooting at a country music concert Sunday night, the deadliest in modern U.S. history.
When I first heard the University of Louisville basketball program was involved in some recruiting scandal, I was shocked-shocked!-because an ethical cloud hangs around its coach Rick Pitino like Pig-Pen of Peanuts fame. Then I heard that the FBI had been investigating multiple schools for similar violations and I thought two things: I'm again shocked-shocked!-that shamateurism prevails in the NCAA, and why does any law enforcement agency care? Here's what allegedly happened: An executive at sportswear manufacturer Adidas named James Gatto funneled significant sums of money to high school basketball players who then committed to Louisville.
It has now been more than a month since a House Intelligence Committee subpoena set a September 1 deadline for the FBI and the Justice Department to turn over documents related to the Trump dossier. Not a single document has been produced.
In 2016, the Woodstock Police Department encountered a strange uptick in arsons: A 300 percent increase from the previous year. "Arson is a fire set by a human," said Woodstock Police Chief John Lieb, commenting on the figures detailed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual crime report, a rundown of statistics compiled from 2016.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has now lost a second official that he brought in from the FBI to help investigate Russia's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election, ABC News has learned. The latest FBI veteran to leave, Lisa Page, was described by media accounts in June as a trial attorney with "deep experience [in] money laundering and organized crime cases."
U.S. Attorney Jay Town, right, discusses the indictment of two prominent lawyers and a coal executive during a news conference in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, Sept.
The businessman tossed wads of real cash - ten $100 bills paper-clipped together - at each member of the Tallahassee City Commission. Florida man with FBI t-shirt offers cash bribes to politicians during public meeting The businessman tossed wads of real cash - ten $100 bills paper-clipped together - at each member of the Tallahassee City Commission.
The FBI this week released its annual report on crime in the United States, finding the number of violent crimes in the country on the rise for the second year in a row. The estimated rate of violent crime in the U.S. was 386.3 offenses per 100,000 residents - for a total of more than 1.2 million incidents - in 2016, an increase of 3.4 percent over the 2015 rate.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released the 2016 edition of its Crime in the United States report, which is a part of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports . Covering January-December 2016, the FBI report "reaffirms that the worrying violent crime increase that began in 2015 after many years of decline was not an isolated incident."
Violent crime and homicide rates rose in the U.S. in 2016 for the second consecutive year, driven in part by a spike in murders in large cities, according to national data released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Trump administration seized on the report as further evidence that the U.S. is experiencing a surge in deadly violence.
Forgive me for starting with a cliche: Beware of what you wish for. I apply it today to the impeachment of President Trump, which is as fervently desired by liberals as it is currently unlikely.
Tension is rising between congressional investigators probing Russia meddling and the Trump administration, as the White House and Justice Department withhold a number of records sought by Capitol Hill at a critical time in the investigations. Operating on parallel tracks from special counsel Robert Mueller, the three congressional committees probing Russia's election meddling have asked for scores of documents related to everything from Jared Kushner's security clearance to records surrounding President Donald Trump's discussions with James Comey before he was fired as FBI director.
Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse speaks during a press conference in Las Vegas, Nev. on September 21, 2017. The conference was held to announce the FBI's joint partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor to increase Human Trafficking Awareness.
In confessions played for a jury Wednesday, murder defendant Alton Alexander Nolen said in 2014 that he beheaded a co-worker and tried to behead another at a Moore food plant because he felt oppressed. Nolen, a Muslim convert, insisted in the interviews with Moore police and the FBI that he was following Islamic teachings.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering issuing subpoenas to President Donald Trump 's former campaign chairman and two FBI officials close to fired director James Comey as part of the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election s. It would be the second time the panel has subpoenaed Paul Manafort , Trump's former campaign chairman.
Gregory Allen Justice, a Culver City engineer sentenced Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, to five years in prison for trying to sell secrets to the Russians, was enamored with fictional spies, including James Bond, seen above as played by actor Sean Connery.
A Culver City man who worked for a South Bay defense contractor was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for his guilty plea to economic espionage and violating the Arms Export Control Act by selling sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a Russian spy.
Editor's note: Should someone wearing a badge have the power to relieve a suspected drug dealer of his Maserati on the spot without giving him an opportunity to flee or liquidate and launder his assets? Known as civil asset forfeiture, this practice might sound like a wise policy. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress are challenging the Trump administration's embrace of the arrangement, which strips billions of dollars a year from Americans - who often have not been charged with a crime.
Amid protests in St. Louis, Gov. Eric Greitens is calling for calm and issuing warnings to people in the streets who are looking to do more than voice their opinions. "You can not underestimate the power or the danger of mob mentality.