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The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors.

The FBI has confirmed that federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse.

When the FBI said this week that Iran had tried to provide Democrats with material stolen from Donald Trump’s campaign, it was only the latest allegation of foreign interference with the U.S. election.

Drivers are being targeted in a new scam, according to the FBI, getting thousands of reports of the unpaid toll bill scams since March.

A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said Monday that he could have put 32-year-old Jareh Sebastian Dalke behind bars for even longer.

Dr. Abigail Judge was recognized with the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in recognition for her service to survivors of sex trafficking. 

Ervin Bolling was a supporter of Donald Trump, according to postings uncovered by the group Advance Democracy.

The FBI says a driver rammed a vehicle into the front gate of its Atlanta office, but his motives were not immediately known.

Two decades after Vermont teenager Brianna Maitland was reported missing, a case that remains unsolved, the FBI is putting up a $40,000 reward for information that leads to her recovery. They made the announcement with Vermont State Police Tuesday, 20 years to the day after she was last seen in Montgomery, Vermont. “Someone out there may have information that can…

Government buildings in several states were evacuated Thursday following bomb threats, causing brief disruptions for the second day in a row in some places. The Mississippi Capitol and courthouses in Arkansas, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and New Hampshire were evacuated or searched, but no explosives were immediately found, and the buildings were reopened to the public. The latest round of evacuations…

A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with the armed carjacking of an FBI agent in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 29, police said.

FBI Director Christopher Wray’s unusually sharp criticism came in an internal email to agency employees.

The decision follows years of discussions over the fate of the dilapidated J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown D.C.

More than 220 lbs. of suspected drugs were recently seized by a gang task force in Massachusetts in what’s believed to be among the biggest-ever drug busts in a single location in New England, federal authorities said Monday. The drugs, including fentanyl, methamphetamine and fake Adderall were allegedly seized last week from a house on Western Avenue in Lynn where…

New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold. Two men who were near the excavation site in rural Pennsylvania have told The Associated Press they heard loud noises early in the morning and later saw an armored truck that appeared to be weighed down with something. A treasure...

A Massachusetts woman pled guilty Thursday to calling in a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital last year. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 37-year-old Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts, pled guilty to one count of making a false bomb threat and one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information. The charges stem from a threat phoned on...

She thought she was finding love, but a woman from Massachusetts ended up losing her life savings in an apparent online dating scam. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous and will be referred to in this story as Alice, met her online partner back in October on Facebook’s dating feature. She was under the impression that she was...

A former MBTA Transit Police sergeant was arrested by FBI agents Thursday for allegedly filing false reports over an officer’s assault of a man at a Red Line station in Boston in 2018, federal prosecutors said. The arrest renews the prosecution of David Finnerty, 47, who was previously charged in state court for allegedly making a false report as a…

U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major malware network that was used for more than 15 years to commit a gamut of online crimes including crippling ransomware attacks.

For the first time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has chosen a woman as the leader of its Boston field office. Jodi Cohen, who previously headed the field office in Louisville, Kentucky, was named special agent in charge in Boston, the FBI said Monday. Director Christopher Wray selected Cohen to succeed Joe Bonavolonta, who retired in June. The bureau says…