Tag Archives: FBI

Registered Republican and gun enthusiast who shot Trump

Thomas Matthew Crooks was killed by a special forces sniper on Saturday The FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old registered Republican from Pennsylvania, as the man who shot Donald Trump. Crooks was reportedly wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of a pro-gun YouTube channel when he was killed by a special forces sniper… Read More »

MPs and senators ask why government didn’t warn they were being targeted by China-backed hackers

Canadian parliamentarians say they were recently warned that they were being targeted by hackers tied to China, and now they’re wondering why that warning didn’t come from the federal government or any of Canada’s security services. “It is unacceptable that we are not being informed,” Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said after raising a privilege issue… Read More »

What information does the government actually collect under FISA?

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. Sign up for free to get it in your inbox Here. The Republican rift jeopardizes the expansion of a cornerstone of U.S. intelligence collection, where the government collects vast amounts of internet and cell phone data. The trove of data currently at stake is… Read More »

Catching suspects with instant alerts

The alleged pedophile “LuvEmYoung” tried to remain anonymous in chat rooms where he bragged about sexually abusing children. The criminal complaint stated that he covered his tracks by sharing a video of himself with a 4-year-old sleeping child last month, using the Swiss encrypted messaging application TeleGuard. But the FBI had a new strategy. A… Read More »

US officials are combing through leaked documents from Chinese tech firm for clues about China’s hacking campaigns

US authorities are investigating newly leaked documents from a Chinese technology firm for clues about how the government in Beijing allegedly used the company in extensive hacking campaigns, multiple US cybersecurity officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The Biden administration’s investigation into the leak is ongoing, but private experts told CNN it offers some… Read More »

FBI ‘must release CCTV of Epstein mansion that could show Prince Andrew’

Melania Trump, Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein at a party at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida in 2000 – Davidoff Studios Photography A lawyer representing Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has called on the FBI to release CCTV footage he claims could show Prince Andrew at the pedophile’s mansion. Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer… Read More »

Suspect who killed two people in New Year’s Eve Rochester shooting dies

The FBI has opened an investigation into how a car containing several gas canisters “intentionally” crashed into another vehicle and into a crowd outside a New Year’s Eve concert in upstate New York, killing two people and injuring several others. Michael Avery, 35, of Syracuse, rented an SUV and purchased several cans of gas in… Read More »

Authorities have identified the husband and wife who died in a car explosion at the US-Canada border. Here’s what we know about the case

Investigators found the married couple was killed in a fiery explosion near the U.S.-Canada border on Wednesday, prompting a massive response from law enforcement. Kurt P. Villani and his wife, Monica Villani, both 53, died in a traffic accident on the U.S. side of the Rainbow Bridge crossing, the Niagara Falls Police Department said in… Read More »