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State's Attorney Calls in FBI to Assist in Investigation of Chicago Police Shooting

The State's Attorney in Cook County, Illinois, has asked for FBI assistance in the police shooting of a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.

January 1, 2016

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Threat That Closed Down L.A. Schools Appears to Be a Hoax

The threat that prompted Los Angeles Unified School District officials to close all schools Tuesday appears to be a hoax, a U.S. congressman on the House Intelligence Committee said.

December 15, 2015

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FBI: Texas Mohammed Cartoon Event Attacker Sent Encrypted Texts to Overseas Terrorists

“We have no idea what he said because those messages were encrypted,” Comey said. “And to this day, I can’t tell you what he said with that terrorist 109 times the morning of that attack. That is a big problem. We have to grapple with it.”

December 11, 2015

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San Bernardino Shooters Planned Bigger Attack, Investigators Believe

FBI agents will probably spend days searching Seccombe Lake and canvassing the neighborhood for clues after receiving a tip that the couple may have visited the area on the day of the attack, according to David Bowdich, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office.

December 11, 2015

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California Massacre Probed as Terrorism, FBI says

San Bernardino, CA, shooter Syed Rizwan Farook had contact with people from at least two terrorist organizations overseas, including the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front in Syria, a federal law enforcement official said Friday.

December 4, 2015

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California Massacre Suspects Could Have Domestic and Foreign Terror Links

But authorities told NBC News on Thursday that Farook appeared to have been radicalized. They said he had been in touch with people in the Los Angeles area who have expressed jihadist-oriented views.

December 3, 2015

Special Units

14 Dead in California Mass Shooting

The assailants who attacked a San Bernardino, CA, office building Wednesday morning killed at least 14 people and left another 14 wounded, the city's police chief said.

December 2, 2015

Patrol

FBI Elite Teams Monitoring ISIS Suspects in the U.S.

These elite FBI teams are reserved for espionage, mob violence and high-priority terrorism cases, like a joint terrorism task force case last June, where a 26-year-old suspect, Usaama Rahim, was killed outside a Massachusetts CVS.

November 27, 2015

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Connecticut City Called Model for Police-Minority Relations

New Haven, CT, is a model for the nation in improving relations between law enforcement and minority communities that have frayed following highly publicized violence by police, FBI Director James Comey said Monday.

November 17, 2015

Weapons

FBI Going Back to 9mm Ammunition

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is returning to the ammunition caliber it labeled ineffective and blamed for the deaths of two of its agents during a 1986 shootout in Miami — the 9mm jacketed hollow-point luger.

November 2, 2015

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FBI Warns that Anarchists Plan to Ambush Officers on Halloween

The extremist group – known as the National Liberation Militia – has proposed a “Halloween Revolt” that encourages supporters to cause a disturbance to attract police and then viciously attack them, the FBI said.

October 27, 2015

Patrol

Video: South Carolina Sheriff Asks FBI to Investigate SRO Incident Captured on Video

On Tuesday, a day after the incident, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Justice Department to conduct an investigation of Monday's incident at Spring Valley High School.

October 27, 2015