The department’s current No. 2 official, Emil Bove, escalated his growing conflict with the interim leadership of the F.B.I.

James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said in an email ...

Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what ...

The prosecutor firings and a move to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents were a powerful indication that the president has ...

President Trump’s nominee also distanced himself from his past partisan comments, and denied that he would carry out a campaign of retribution if he is confirmed.

The decision, signed by Judge John J. McConnell Jr., is a temporary but significant victory for the Democratic attorneys ...

During President Trump’s first term, demanding personal loyalty didn’t always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the ...

The F.B.I. nominee has not only cast his political lot with the president, he has also used the connection to the Trump brand, Truth Social and other Trump-linked entities as a significant source of ...

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or ...

Kash Patel exhibited unflinching fealty during Donald Trump’s four years out of office, standing by him during the grim days after the F.B.I. search of the president’s Florida estate in 2022.

Testifying in a confirmation hearing, Kash Patel, who is nominated to lead the F.B.I., also sought to allay fears about his ...

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department ...