FBI

FBI kills man linked to Boston bomb suspect

22 May 2013

A man shot dead by an FBI agent in Florida was an acquaintance of the Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a friend said.

Updated 4:58AM

Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer

21 May 2013

Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a...

3:06AM

US authorities accuse Uzbek man of terrorism

18 May 2013

US authorities in Idaho said they arrested an Uzbek national accused of conspiring with a terrorist group in his home country and helping plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The US attorney'...

2:42AM

US tax agency faces FBI investigation

16 May 2013

US Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe into a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax...

1:16AM

US reporters' phone records seized 'to protect lives'

16 May 2013

The US government claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists' phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach.

1:17AM

FBI says Minnesota arrest 'disrupted terror attack'

7 May 2013

The FBI believes "a terror attack was disrupted" when authorities arrested a man after they swooped on a mobile home in western Minnesota that contained Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and...

3:24AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

4:27AM

Female DNA found on fragment from bomb used at Boston Marathon

Investigators have found female DNA on a fragment from one of the two bombs used in the attack on the Boston Marathon two weeks ago, according to a US official briefed on the probe. The genetic...

3:08AM

CIA had Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev put on terror watch list

Both the CIA and the FBI flagged the deceased Boston bombing suspect over possible terror ties, but he slipped through the fingers of investigators, officials have said. The revelations have...

2:37AM

Singapore irked by bid to cut US funding over Shane Todd's death

Singapore said it is disappointed with a plan by two US senators to block funding to an institute until the FBI gets full access in the investigation into American researcher Shane Todd's death....

2:02AM

Singapore asks US to help probe scientist Shane Todd's 'suicide'

Police confirmed they had asked the FBI to examine evidence from the family of Shane Todd, an electronics engineer found hanged in the city-state in June last year.

10:13AM

CRIME

FBI plea for information over suspected serial killer Israel Keyes

The FBI is appealing for information about the travels of a suspected serial killer believed to have murdered up to 15 people over more than a decade before he committed suicide in jail.

6:06AM

UNITED STATES

Four men charged in California with plot to join al-Qaeda

Four men with California ties accused of making arrangements to join up with al-Qaeda and Taliban militants for training in Afghanistan have been arrested on US charges of plotting to provide...

9:43AM