Prosecutors begin cross-examining Blagojevich
CHICAGO — The prosecution wasted no time grilling Rod Blagojevich as they began cross examining the impeached Illinois governor Thursday at his corruption retrial, setting a highly combative tone from...
View ArticleFBI looking to restock its ’10 Most Wanted’ list
WASHINGTON—With the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, and the arrest of Boston crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger on Wednesday, the FBI’s “10 Most Wanted” list has a couple...
View ArticleFBI keeping eye on China, Russia, Iran cyberspying
WASHINGTON—The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has made a campaign against cyberthreats one of its “highest priorities,” with China, Russia and Iran in the crosshairs, the bureau’s chief said...
View ArticleTeen stunned at portrayal as US bombing suspect
A teenager said he is scared to go outside after he was portrayed on the Internet and on the front page of the New York Post as connected to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.
View ArticleBoston bomb suspects ‘innocent’, framed by FBI—father
The father of the suspected Boston bombers insisted in an interview published Monday that his sons Tamerlan and Dzhokhar were innocent and could not have carried out the bombings
View ArticleBoston bombing suspects’ mom in terror database
U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it...
View ArticleFBI shoots, kills man linked to Boston bomb suspect—report
An FBI agent Wednesday fatally shot a Florida man who allegedly had ties to one of the Boston bombings suspects, US media reported.
View ArticleUS whistle-blower Snowden under criminal investigation
The United States has launched a criminal investigation and is taking "all necessary steps" to prosecute Edward Snowden for exposing secret US surveillance programs, the FBI director said Thursday.
View ArticleOfficial: 1 unaccounted for from S.F. plane crash
An Asiana Airlines flight crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens of others and forcing passengers to jump down the...
View ArticleBeauty package leaves two ill at JFK airport
Two customs inspectors at New York's John F. Kennedy airport fell ill Sunday after handling what turned out to be a box of beauty supplies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said.
View ArticleStudent admits ‘sextortion’ involving Miss Teen USA
A US student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking online accounts of Miss Teen USA and other women and threatening to publish nude photos of them, prosecutors said Thursday.
View ArticleMobster arrested over ‘Goodfellas’ JFK heist
A New York mobster was arrested Thursday over the spectacular 1978 cash and jewelry heist from JFK airport immortalized in Martin Scorsese's movie "Goodfellas," and pleaded not guilty.
View ArticleStabbing suspect’s mental state is key to the case
The legal fate of the 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing or slashing 21 fellow students and a security guard at his high school will probably pivot more on his mental state than his tender age,...
View ArticleTeen OK after riding in wheel well of Hawaii jet
U.S. officials say a 16-year-old boy is "lucky to be alive" and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane's wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet (11,580...
View ArticlePedophile teacher abused scores as clues missed
He was one of the most beloved teachers in the world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off Americans and local elites. He was often the first to arrive in the...
View ArticleChina cyber-crime costing US billions – FBI chief
China is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States which costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sunday.
View ArticleLawsuit: College used strippers to lure students
A for-profit Florida college used exotic dancers as admissions officers, falsified documents and coached students to lie on financial forms as it fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in federal...
View ArticleMan tries to run down police; they shoot, kill him
Police in suburban Philadelphia say a man who threatened to kill officers in an online video tried to run them down in a car and they shot him dead.
View ArticleMilitant partylist wants US embassy to face probe on SAF massacre
With reports of residents witnessing US military forces during the encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao that left at least 60 people, including 44 SAF commandos, dead, militant lawmakers said officials...
View ArticleNapeñas quizzed on US knowledge of role in Mamasapano operation
Did the United States know about the Mamasapano operation beforehand?
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