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FILE - An FBI seal is seen on a wall on Aug. 10, 2022, in Omaha, Neb. A new FBI report shows the rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported. The report released Tuesday also shows that the number of officers assaulted and injured by guns is climbing too. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Assaults on law enforcement in U.S. reached a 10-year high in 2023, the FBI says

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office in Paw Paw, Mich., shows stolen guns, ammunition and knives that were recovered Sept. 12, 2015, in Antwerp Township, Mich. The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, a new analysis of FBI data by the gun-safety group Everytown found. (Van Buren County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

FBI agent holding a gun in his hand, rear view. File photo credit: Shutterstock

FBI agent accuses top brass of retaliation for defending whistleblower

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Violent rioters breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ex-government employee charged with falsely accusing co-workers of joining Capitol riot

By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

In this artist sketch depicts defendant Alexander Smirnov I federal court in Los Angeles, Feb. 26, 2024. A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail the former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden's family. (William T. Robles via AP)

Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Bidens must remain jailed, appeals court rules

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a primary election night party in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 24, 2024. The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Trump and Graham has turned negative once more after the South Carolina senator criticized Trump's refusal to support a federal abortion ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Graham reveals potential phone hack involving someone impersonating Schumer

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

An FBI seal is seen on a wall on Aug. 10, 2022, in Omaha, Neb. The FBI says scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year. An FBI report released Tuesday shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI report says

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

U.S. Attorney for Colorado Cole Finegan, left, speaks outside Denver federal court after the sentencing of Jared Sebastian Dalke on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Denver. Behind him are federal prosecutors and FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek. Former National Security Agency employee Dalke, who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official, was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors. (AP Photo/Colleen Slevin)

Former NSA worker gets nearly 22 years in prison for selling secrets to undercover FBI agent

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

FILE -In this Jan. 24, 2018, file photo, victims react and hug Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis after Larry Nassar was sentenced by Judge Rosemarie Aquilina to 40 to 175 years in prison during a sentencing hearing in Lansing, Mich. The U.S. Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement Tuesday, April 23, 2024, with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against Larry Nassar in 2015 and 2016, a critical time gap that allowed the sports doctor to continue to prey on victims before his arrest. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Feds will pay $138.7 million to victims of Larry Nassar who sued over FBI’s mishandling

By Ed White - Associated Press

This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. A federal judge is set to hear arguments on whether to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump. His lawyers say the former president was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to keep the sensitive documents with him when he left the White House and headed to Florida. (Justice Department via AP)

Trump ignored advice to return classified documents, new filings claim

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 17, 2016, file photo, an iPhone is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FBI warns Americans about ‘smishing’ text scam regarding fake unpaid road tolls

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. Progressive activists have unleashed fury on Democrats after party leaders rallied to pass a bill expanding the government's chief snooping authority without any major new safeguards for Americans' privacy. Democrats provided most of the votes as the House renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and, in a separate vote, shot down an attempt to add a requirement to the law that would have forced the FBI to get a warrant before it could snoop through the data for Americans’ communications. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Progressive activists see ‘betrayal’ after Democrats save government snooping program for Biden

By Alex Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Washington. Pictured from left are Rep. Blake Moore, R-Utah, Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

House passes FISA bill renewing spying power, rejects warrant requirement

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Washington. The House was holding a key test vote Wednesday on whether to consider a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, but the prospects were uncertain amid intense Republican opposition as well as an edict earlier in the day from former President Donald Trump to “kill" the measure. Johnson has called the program “critically important” but has struggled to find a path forward on the issue, which has been plagued by partisan bickering for years. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

House derails vote to renew FISA after Trump trashes the bill

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 20, 2019. Turner says he has information about a serious national security threat and urges the administration to declassify the information so the U.S. and its allies can openly discuss how to respond. Turner, a Republican from Ohio, gave no details about the threat in his statement. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Fight over FISA heads to a House vote

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

This June 19, 2017, photo shows a person working on a laptop in North Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) **FILE**

Congress takes up fight over snooping; security officials oppose changes to federal spy powers

By Stephen Dinan and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 29, 2024. House Democrats on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, launched a long-shot effort to push $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote. The move ramps up pressure on Johnson to take up the foreign funding package. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speaker Johnson pushes lawmakers to support FISA reauthorization vote next week

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Book Richardson, director of the New York Gauchos boy's basketball program, speaks with his players in the locker room at the Gaucho Gym, Monday, March 11, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie)

Black coaches were ‘low-hanging fruit’ in FBI college hoops case that wrecked careers, then fizzled

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

In an image taken from aerial video shows a red vehicle stopped by a barrier at the front gate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta division, Monday, April 1, 2024, in Chamblee, Ga. The FBI says a driver rammed a vehicle into the front gate of its Atlanta office, but his motives were not immediately known. (WSB via AP)

Man accused of ramming vehicle into barrier at FBI Atlanta office front gate ID’d as Navy veteran

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In this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, photo an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans. One the face of it, a short-term outage that made certain social media platforms temporarily unavailable would seem to not be worth more than a shrug or passing interest. But the widespread attention given to the blanking of Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms on Tuesday shows that it does matter. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Agent says FBI interrogates Americans about social media posts ‘every day, all day long’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times