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A former Las Vegas Strip illusionist from Germany stopped his federal trial Thursday and pleaded guilty to charges that he acquired thousands of pornographic videos and images, including some depicting sex acts involving kindergarten-age boys. Under the plea deal, Jan Rouven Fuechtener, 39, will face at least five years in a U.S. prison - and possibly as many as 30 years - for his convictions on felony child pornography possession, receipt and distribution charges.
It's still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI's unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton's performance with presidential election voters, who this past week opted to elect her opponent, Donald Trump. What certainly is, however, is whether the bureau as a whole or its director, James Comey, are allowed to skate in what was one of the most bizarre and outrageous missteps in the history of the nation's top law enforcement agency - a flagrant abuse of its own policies and proprieties that clearly had the potential for seriously damaging Clinton's chances.
Jurors were shown portions of the enhanced slow-motion footage and some still images, but little can be discerned from them. Minutes before 5 p.m., the judge was delivered a note.
Hillary Clinton is blaming the FBI's decision to revive its examination of her email accounts for her devastating defeat in the presidential election. On a call Saturday with top campaign donors, Clinton said her campaign was winning until FBI director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 announcing that the FBI had uncovered emails possibly related to its earlier probe into her use of a private server as secretary of state.
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FBI Director James Comey faces a complicated path under a Donald Trump administration. Does he try to serve out the remaining seven years of his term under a president who has publicly questioned the FBI's integrity? Or does he stay on as a safeguard against executive power and a guide for a novice president on complex national security matters? The term of the FBI director is set at 10 years as an affirmation of the bureau's political independence, and some other chiefs including Robert Mueller, Comey's predecessor, have served presidents of both parties.
Yosemite High School junior Matthew Williams has been accepted to attend the Federal Bureau of Investigation Teen Academy - the one day experience will take place on Nov. 18, in Roseville, the new home of the FBI's Sacramento field office. "Today's teens are exposed to a near-constant flow of information from a variety of Internet and social media sources, but it is often difficult to discern which are credible," said Special Agent in Charge Monica Miller.
The FBI's handling of its Hillary Clinton email probe has undercut the bureau's carefully crafted image as unquestionably outside the political fray. The yearlong investigation thrust the FBI into the thick of an already fractious presidential race, entangled in a way that strained its vaunted independence and cracked its prized reputation for silence about its work.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte on Monday demanded to know more about the emails found on Antony Weiner's laptop computer than what the FBI has revealed so far, including whether any were classified or related to the previous investigation of Hillary Clinton 's private email server. In a letter sent Monday to FBI Director James Comey, Goodlatte asked if Comey consulted with Attorney General Loretta Lynch before clearing the latest batch of Hillary Clinton 's emails.
Voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio weigh in on FBI Director James Comey's decision to send a letter to members of Congress informing them that newly discovered emails were either duplicates or personal emails that were not related to government business from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. Hillary Clinton's campaign chief expressed relief Monday that the FBI's email probe had been put to rest, but Donald Trump appeared ready to hammer the issue in his last-ditch bid for critical swing states as the campaign entered its final day.
The FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has created more turmoil for the bureau than any other matter in recent history, exposing internal tensions with the Justice Department and stirring concerns the famously apolitical organization unnecessarily injected itself into the campaign. The FBI for decades has prided itself on being both independent and silent about its work.
European shares rebounded after their worst week since February as the Federal Bureau of Investigation reiterated its assertion that U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton didn't break any laws in her handling of e-mails. The initial announcement provided a fillip to Donald Trump's campaign for the White House at a time most polls showed Clinton well ahead.
From the moment they secured a warrant, dozens of FBI agents worked night and day to analyze a trove of messages that they thought might help advance their probe of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server, according to a U.S. official. The pressure was intense.
In the days since the FBI dropped a bombshell into the presidential race with the discovery of new emails relevant to the Hillary Clinton server investigation, bureau investigators worked "around the clock" to review the large volume of emails, two law enforcement officials told CNN. Key to the effort was software that was refined from its previous uses for the review of emails found on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and estranged husband of Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin.
Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday after FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers during the weekend that the bureau had found no evidence to warrant criminal charges against presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a trove of newly-discovered emails. Wall Street's proxy for Trump's chances at winning, the Mexican peso rebounded sharply against the dollar.
Bill Clinton was approaching the midway point of his second term when scandal consumed his presidency. If elected Tuesday, his wife Hillary may not have to wait that long.
In a letter sent Sunday, FBI Director James Comey told Congress that a review of newly discovered Hillary Clinton emails has "not changed our conclusions" from earlier this year that she should not face charges. Sent just two days before Election Day, the letter appeared to resolve any lingering ambiguity over the prospect that the Democratic presidential nominee could yet face a criminal indictment over her use of a private email sever as secretary of state.
In between making the beds and dusting the antiques, Marina Santos, Hillary's housekeeper in her Washington, DC mansion, printed up state secrets for her boss. And she had access to the secure room where top secret docuemnts were housed.
Police said in a statement that they saw graffiti on buildings and sidewalks in the area of Saturday's Million Mask March, which organizers describe on their Facebook page as a march against government and corporate corruption. Police photographs appear to show the word "corrupt" and images of English anti-hero Guy Fawkes spray painted at the Federal Bureau of Investigation building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
A two-year FBI investigation apparently centered on the satirical web site " GodHatesGoths ". Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz writes: In 2005, the FBI launched an investigation into the "Church of the Hammer," a fundamentalist Christian sect which called for the wholesale slaughter of practitioners of the goth subculture.