https://www.scmp.com/rss/522007/feed FBI: A prominent Washington, D.C.-based governmental body and principal federal law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation serves as the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States. Its primary mission is to protect the American people, uphold the Constitution, and defend against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats. The FBI’s main activities include investigating federal crimes, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Laura Zhou Laura Zhou The compound is modern with air conditioning in every room. Inside are a medical clinic, massage parlour, and Vietnamese barbecue, Chinese hotpot and halal eateries – a full range of conveniences. Yet the residents are gone – and they appear to have fled in haste. Clothes still hang out to dry, while the stench of rotting food lingers. Located in a secluded area in Kampot province near Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, the site is believed to be a telecoms scam centre. Cambodian authorities said... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3348930/game-whack-mole-how-could-scam-industry-bring-china-and-us-together?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3348930/game-whack-mole-how-could-scam-industry-bring-china-and-us-together?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:00:10 +0000 Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan Mark Magnier,Khushboo Razdan After avoiding much of the churn, firings and senior official turnover that marked his first term, US President Donald Trump on Thursday added to the string of high-profile departures in recent days, as bad news heaped more pressure on the White House. The administration announced that US Attorney General Pam Bondi was leaving to be replaced by her deputy, Todd Blanche, in an acting capacity. “We love Pam,” Trump wrote on social media. “She will be transitioning to a much-needed and important... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348858/trump-fires-pam-bondi-us-attorney-general-amid-epstein-files-furore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348858/trump-fires-pam-bondi-us-attorney-general-amid-epstein-files-furore?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:20:46 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah and had sought to inflict as much damage as possible, the FBI said on Monday. Ayman Ghazali made a video before the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, saying he wanted to “kill as many of them as I possibly can”, said Jennifer Runyan, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Detroit, who announced new information more... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348458/fbi-says-man-who-crashed-his-truck-michigan-synagogue-was-inspired-hezbollah?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3348458/fbi-says-man-who-crashed-his-truck-michigan-synagogue-was-inspired-hezbollah?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:00:41 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work résumé and other personal documents. Many of those records appeared to be more than a decade old. “Kash Patel, the current head of the FBI, who once saw his name displayed with pride on the agency’s headquarters, will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims,” said a message posted on Friday... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3348214/pro-iran-hackers-say-they-breached-fbi-chief-patels-email-account-post-personal-files?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3348214/pro-iran-hackers-say-they-breached-fbi-chief-patels-email-account-post-personal-files?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:39:34 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Justice Department has settled for roughly US$1.2 million a lawsuit from Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian diplomat and was later pardoned. Court papers filed Wednesday do not reveal the settlement amount, but a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to Associated Press on condition of anonymity to disclose nonpublic... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347921/justice-department-settles-lawsuit-trump-ally-michael-flynn-us12-million?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347921/justice-department-settles-lawsuit-trump-ally-michael-flynn-us12-million?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:05:02 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A tearful Savannah Guthrie, in her first interview since her 84-year-old mother was apparently abducted from her Arizona home, said that “someone needs to do the right thing” and come forward with information to help the investigation. “We are in agony,” she told NBC News colleague Hoda Kotb in a portion of the interview aired Wednesday on the Today show. She said she wakes up in the middle of each night thinking of what her mother went through. NBC said Wednesday that a full interview with its... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347916/savannah-guthrie-nbc-news-interview-appeals-help-finding-her-missing-mother?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347916/savannah-guthrie-nbc-news-interview-appeals-help-finding-her-missing-mother?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:54:35 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the September 11 attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has died. He was 81. “With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away” on Friday night, his family said in a statement on Saturday. “His family asks that their privacy be respected.” No cause of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347449/robert-mueller-special-counsel-who-investigated-russia-trump-campaign-ties-dies-81?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347449/robert-mueller-special-counsel-who-investigated-russia-trump-campaign-ties-dies-81?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:59:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The FBI is investigating whether Joe Kent, who resigned his position as a top counterterrorism official this week in protest of the Iran war, improperly shared classified information, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The investigation precedes Kent’s resignation Tuesday from his role as director of the US government’s National Counterterrorism Centre, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing FBI inquiry. But it comes as the Justice Department... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347098/fbi-investigating-top-us-security-official-who-resigned-over-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347098/fbi-investigating-top-us-security-official-who-resigned-over-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:04:50 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press ROTC (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) students in an Old Dominion University classroom subdued and killed the shooter who killed one person and wounded two others, the FBI announced on Thursday. Dominique Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Norfolk field office, said at a news conference that the suspect identified by authorities as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh shouted “Allahu akbar” before the shooting. Then the ROTC students stopped him, showing “extreme... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346418/gunman-who-injured-2-people-virginias-old-dominion-university-dead-college-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346418/gunman-who-injured-2-people-virginias-old-dominion-university-dead-college-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:05:45 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A 41-year-old man was killed Thursday after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, causing a blaze and triggering a huge police response. US media reported the assailant had recently lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, as part of the ongoing Middle East war. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security identified the assailant as Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon, came to Detroit in 2011 on a visa granted to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346417/police-respond-report-active-shooter-michigan-synagogue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3346417/police-respond-report-active-shooter-michigan-synagogue?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:13:44 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to subpoena US Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files regarding the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation. Five Republicans joined Democrats to support the subpoena proposed by Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace in a sign of continued frustration among conservatives with the department’s review and release of a tranche of documents related to the disgraced financier. The move... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345486/us-lawmakers-vote-subpoena-pam-bondi-over-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345486/us-lawmakers-vote-subpoena-pam-bondi-over-epstein-files?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:40:47 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and the words “Property of Allah” killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told Associated Press. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which erupted a day after the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran, as a potential act of terrorism. Police in Austin shot and killed the gunman, who used both a pistol and a rifle to carry out the attack, police said. The shooting happened outside Buford’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345055/3-dead-14-injured-texas-bar-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3345055/3-dead-14-injured-texas-bar-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:31:49 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, US President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the US Secret Service. Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House when the breach occurred around 1.30am. The man had a fuel can and a shotgun, authorities said. Investigators identified him as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, according to a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344275/us-secret-service-kills-armed-man-entering-trumps-mar-lago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344275/us-secret-service-kills-armed-man-entering-trumps-mar-lago?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:03:48 +0000 Reuters Reuters Nancy Guthrie’s family has been cleared as possible suspects in her abduction, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said on Monday, as the case involving the mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie entered its third week. Guthrie’s family, which includes “all siblings and ‌spouses”, has been cooperative and gracious as authorities investigate the kidnapping, Nanos said. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel,” he said in a statement. “The Guthrie family are victims, plain and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343778/guthrie-family-not-suspects-arizona-kidnapping-sheriff-confirms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343778/guthrie-family-not-suspects-arizona-kidnapping-sheriff-confirms?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:03:43 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A glove containing DNA found about 3km from the house of Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother appears to match those worn by a masked person outside her front door in Tucson the night she vanished, the FBI said on Sunday. The glove, found in a field near the side of the road, was sent off for DNA testing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement on Sunday that it received preliminary results on Saturday and is awaiting official confirmation. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343655/glove-found-near-nancy-guthries-home-appears-match-one-worn-suspect-fbi-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343655/glove-found-near-nancy-guthries-home-appears-match-one-worn-suspect-fbi-says?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:17:59 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie’s porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break. By Wednesday, however, the man said he had been released after questioning, leaving it unclear where the investigation stood into last week’s disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie. Just hours after the FBI released videos on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343236/man-questioned-about-nancy-guthries-disappearance-says-he-was-released?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343236/man-questioned-about-nancy-guthries-disappearance-says-he-was-released?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:49:20 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Federal prosecutors failed to bring charges Tuesday against six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse illegal orders, outraging US President Donald Trump, who had called for jail time, US media reported. A federal grand jury composed of local citizens in Washington denied the Justice Department’s attempts to indict the lawmakers who posted a short video urging conscientious service, sources told The New York Times and The Washington Post. In the video posted to social media in... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343148/us-grand-jury-rejects-charges-against-6-democrat-lawmakers-trump-wanted-jailed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343148/us-grand-jury-rejects-charges-against-6-democrat-lawmakers-trump-wanted-jailed?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:30:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters Authorities on Tuesday released video of an armed ⁠man in a ski mask tampering with the doorbell camera at the Arizona home of US television journalist Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother shortly before she was abducted nine days earlier in a presumed kidnapping for ransom. Retrieval of the images came hours before another major break in the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie – the first known arrest in the case following days in which investigators reported making little progress. The Pima... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343142/person-detained-disappearance-us-tv-host-guthries-mother?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343142/person-detained-disappearance-us-tv-host-guthries-mother?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:50:05 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie released the first surveillance images on Tuesday showing a masked person on her porch the night she went missing, as law enforcement and her family intensified calls for public help more than a week into the search. Law enforcement searching for the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie has not identified any suspects or persons of interest, and it is unclear if she is still alive. FBI Director Kash Patel posted the images on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343114/nancy-guthrie-disappearance-fbi-releases-images-masked-person?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343114/nancy-guthrie-disappearance-fbi-releases-images-masked-person?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:43:12 +0000 Reuters Reuters Investigators in Arizona presume the kidnapped elderly mother of popular US television news host Savannah Guthrie is “still out there” and alive four days after she was abducted from her home, though no suspect ‍has been identified, authorities said on Thursday. Police and FBI officials said they had intensified their search for Nancy Guthrie, 84, calling in extra personnel and special forensic analysts, even as the first of two deadlines set in a ransom note came and went early Thursday... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342572/arizona-sheriff-says-nancy-guthrie-presumed-still-be-out-there-alive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342572/arizona-sheriff-says-nancy-guthrie-presumed-still-be-out-there-alive?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:44:43 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Norway’s crown princess, whose son goes on trial on Tuesday on rape charges, has found herself embroiled in another scandal after newly unsealed files revealed her unexpected friendship with late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The latest scandal has even raised questions about whether Mette-Marit, a commoner who married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001, could still become queen one day. Her name appears at least 1,000 times in the millions of new Epstein documents released by the US Department of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342063/latest-epstein-files-dump-reveals-embarrassing-friendship-another-royal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3342063/latest-epstein-files-dump-reveals-embarrassing-friendship-another-royal?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:14:25 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers on January 24, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Friday. “We’re looking at everything that would shed light on what happened that day and in the days and weeks leading up to what happened,” Blanche said during a news conference. Blanche did not explain why the DOJ decided to open an investigation into Pretti’s killing,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341904/us-justice-department-opens-civil-rights-probe-killing-alex-pretti?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:38:32 +0000 Reuters Reuters Top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees called on Thursday for US President Donald Trump’s chief spy to brief their panels on why she was ‍present at an FBI raid on an election facility in Georgia. Senator Mark Warner and Congressman Jim Himes told Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a letter that they were deeply concerned with her presence at Wednesday’s FBI operation, saying that the US intelligence community “should be focused on foreign threats”. “When... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341758/why-was-americas-top-spy-present-fbi-raid-georgia-election-facility?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341758/why-was-americas-top-spy-present-fbi-raid-georgia-election-facility?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:50:04 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A man claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York City on Wednesday night and told officers he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, authorities said. He is now locked up there too. Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old Minnesota native who has a history of drug and other arrests and disclosed last year in court papers that he suffered from mental illness, was arrested and charged with impersonating a federal officer in a foiled bid to free Mangione from the Metropolitan... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341746/man-posing-fbi-agent-tried-free-luigi-mangione?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341746/man-posing-fbi-agent-tried-free-luigi-mangione?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:16:59 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The British government said on Sunday it will unveil plans this week to create a new national police force, dubbed the “British FBI”, to take charge of complex investigations such as counterterrorism, fraud, online child abuse and criminal gangs. The National Police Service will bring under the same umbrella the work of existing agencies dealing with terrorism and crime, police helicopters and policing of the roads, and regional organised crime units in England and Wales. Home Secretary Shabana... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341189/uk-create-british-fbi-bring-national-investigations-under-single-police-force?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341189/uk-create-british-fbi-bring-national-investigations-under-single-police-force?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:37:46 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who was among the FBI’s top fugitives and faces charges related to multinational drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, was arrested on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Associated Press. Wedding, 44, is accused of running a drug trafficking operation and officials say he orchestrated several killings to further the drug crimes. He was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list and authorities had offered a US$15 million... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341065/ryan-wedding-arrested-ex-olympian-fugitive-fbis-most-wanted-list-caught-mexico?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341065/ryan-wedding-arrested-ex-olympian-fugitive-fbis-most-wanted-list-caught-mexico?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:00:39 +0000 Reuters Reuters FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday as part of an investigation into sharing secret government information, officials said, ‍in a move that press advocates said threatened journalistic freedom. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has covered US President Donald Trump’s campaign to fire hundreds of thousands of federal workers and shift remaining workers to implementing his agenda. US Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal agents had executed the search at the request... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339930/fbi-raids-home-us-journalist-who-reported-trump-firings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339930/fbi-raids-home-us-journalist-who-reported-trump-firings?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:27:57 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump raised his ‌middle finger and appeared to direct profanity towards a factory worker who expressed ‍criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy at a Michigan auto plant on Tuesday, video circulating online showed. The entertainment site TMZ first published video capturing the exchange, and the White House did not dispute its authenticity. “A lunatic was ⁠wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339806/trump-flips-factory-worker-after-epstein-taunt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339806/trump-flips-factory-worker-after-epstein-taunt?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:50:44 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hundreds more federal agents were heading to Minneapolis, the US homeland security chief said on Sunday, brushing aside demands by the Midwestern city’s Democratic leaders to leave after an immigration officer fatally shot a woman protester. In multiple TV interviews, Kristi Noem defended the actions of the officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, whose death has sparked renewed protests nationwide against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Homeland Security... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339548/us-surges-hundreds-more-agents-minneapolis-amid-furore-over-ice-killing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339548/us-surges-hundreds-more-agents-minneapolis-amid-furore-over-ice-killing?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:07:27 +0000 Reuters Reuters The White House on Friday reposted on social media a new video taken ‌from the cellphone of the immigration officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman in her car this week, adding to the documentation of an incident that has sparked days of nationwide protests. The 47-second video shows 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good ‍telling the officer, “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” moments before he opens fire after Good puts the car in gear in an apparent effort to pull back into the street. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339411/video-shot-ice-agent-he-killed-minnesota-woman-emerges-further-inflaming-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339411/video-shot-ice-agent-he-killed-minnesota-woman-emerges-further-inflaming-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:06:27 +0000 Reuters Reuters Tensions over US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown ‌rose across the United States on Thursday after the second shooting involving immigration officers in two days, deepening rifts between state and federal officials over how and why the shootings occurred. Protests intensified in Minnesota following Wednesday’s fatal ‍shooting of a 37-year-old mother by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Minnesota and US officials offered starkly different accounts of the shooting, and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339253/us-border-agent-shoots-and-wounds-2-portland-national-tensions-rise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339253/us-border-agent-shoots-and-wounds-2-portland-national-tensions-rise?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:14:22 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to information released on Tuesday by the US Department of Justice. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on December 13. He also killed MIT professor... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338976/brown-university-shooter-left-video-confession-says-he-planned-attack-months?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338976/brown-university-shooter-left-video-confession-says-he-planned-attack-months?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:12:56 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The FBI said on Friday it had disrupted a plot to attack a North Carolina supermarket and fast-food restaurant on New Year’s Eve, arresting a man who officials said was inspired by Islamic State and had pledged loyalty to the extremist militants. Christian Sturdivant, 18, of Mint ‍Hill, North Carolina, was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terror organisation after officials say he communicated his attack plans to an undercover FBI (Federal bureau of Investigation)... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338580/fbi-says-it-disrupted-potential-new-years-eve-attack-inspired-islamic-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338580/fbi-says-it-disrupted-potential-new-years-eve-attack-inspired-islamic-state?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:16:21 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday’s congressionally mandated deadline. The Christmas Eve announcement came hours after a dozen US senators called on the Justice Department’s watchdog to examine its failure to meet the deadline. The group, 11 Democrats and a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337670/after-missing-epstein-files-deadline-trump-admin-says-it-may-need-few-more-weeks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337670/after-missing-epstein-files-deadline-trump-admin-says-it-may-need-few-more-weeks?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:20:18 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “many more ‌times than previously has been reported,” according to an email from a New York prosecutor that forms part of a new batch of documents about Epstein released Tuesday by the US Justice Department. In an ‍email dated January 7, 2020, the unidentified prosecutor wrote that flight records showed Trump had flown on Epstein’s private jet eight times during the 1990s. Among those were at least four... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337549/trump-flew-epstein-jet-many-more-times-reported-newly-released-file-shows?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337549/trump-flew-epstein-jet-many-more-times-reported-newly-released-file-shows?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:11:04 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The US Senate’s top Democrat urged his colleagues on Monday to take legal action over the US Justice Department’s incremental and heavily redacted release of records pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution that, if passed, would direct the Senate to file or join lawsuits aimed at forcing the Justice Department to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted last month that required disclosure of records by last... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337393/top-democrat-urges-senate-sue-over-justice-departments-staggered-epstein-files-release?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337393/top-democrat-urges-senate-sue-over-justice-departments-staggered-epstein-files-release?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:08:42 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US Justice Department officials on Sunday denied redacting the Epstein files to protect US President Donald Trump, as criticism mounted over the partial and heavily censored release of documents. Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have expressed anger after a cache of records from cases against the late sex offender were released Friday with many pages blacked out and photos censored. US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the release by the Justice Department, telling NBC’s Meet the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337250/top-us-official-defends-partial-release-epstein-files-democrats-cry-foul?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337250/top-us-official-defends-partial-release-epstein-files-democrats-cry-foul?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:54:50 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Public calls are growing for the FBI to give its promised US$50,000 reward to a homeless man who provided information essential to leading authorities to the gunman they say killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor. Authorities say they received a tip from an anonymous source on Tuesday about a Reddit post on the Providence subreddit, according to a law enforcement affidavit from the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office. That post eventually led investigators to a New... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337206/brown-shooting-will-homeless-man-who-helped-fbi-find-gunman-get-us50000-reward?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337206/brown-shooting-will-homeless-man-who-helped-fbi-find-gunman-get-us50000-reward?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:46:55 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, including a photograph showing US President Donald Trump – less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public. The missing files, which were available on Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337205/least-16-files-gone-epstein-release-site-including-1-trump-photo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337205/least-16-files-gone-epstein-release-site-including-1-trump-photo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:26:16 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Saturday expressed anger after a long-awaited cache of records from cases against him were released with many pages blacked out and photos censored. The trove of material released by the US Justice Department included photographs of former president Bill Clinton and other luminaries in Epstein’s wealthy social circle including Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. But blackouts across many of the documents – combined with tight control over the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337204/epstein-victims-angry-over-gaps-and-censorship-long-awaited-file-release?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337204/epstein-victims-angry-over-gaps-and-censorship-long-awaited-file-release?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:12:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino will step down from his post next month, he said on Wednesday, ending a short and at times tumultuous tenure as the bureau’s second highest-ranking official. Bongino announced the move on social media hours after President Donald Trump said he thought Bongino wanted to “go back to his show”. He hosted a prominent right-wing podcast prior to joining the FBI. “Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” Trump told reporters. Bongino, a former New... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336836/fbis-bongino-quitting-trump-says-he-wants-go-back-his-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336836/fbis-bongino-quitting-trump-says-he-wants-go-back-his-show?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:14:38 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said on Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. The prosecutor’s office said no suspects had been taken into custody as of Tuesday afternoon,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336731/homicide-investigation-launched-after-mit-professor-fatally-shot-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336731/homicide-investigation-launched-after-mit-professor-fatally-shot-home?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:31:50 +0000 Reuters Reuters Four people were facing criminal charges in connection with what US Attorney General Pam Bondi described on Monday as a foiled bomb plot that contemplated multiple targets, including US immigration agents and their vehicles. The four individuals have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California. “The Turtle Island Liberation Front - a far-left, pro-Palestine,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336544/fbi-arrests-4-suspects-new-years-eve-terror-plot-targeting-california?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336544/fbi-arrests-4-suspects-new-years-eve-terror-plot-targeting-california?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:50:45 +0000 Reuters Reuters The man held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine injured will be released from custody, authorities said on Sunday night. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said earlier at a midday news conference that a man in his 20s had been taken into custody in connection with Saturday’s gun violence but gave no further details. But at a late-night news conference hours later, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and other state and local officials told... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336445/hunt-brown-university-shooter-continues-police-release-person-interest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336445/hunt-brown-university-shooter-continues-police-release-person-interest?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:58:31 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A grand jury declined for a second time to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, refusing to resurrect a mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by US President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. It is another major blow to the Justice Department after the dismissal of earlier charges against James and another long-time Trump foe, former FBI director James Comey, in a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to prosecute the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336133/us-justice-department-fails-again-reindict-letitia-james-blow-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336133/us-justice-department-fails-again-reindict-letitia-james-blow-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:30:28 +0000 Reuters Reuters The FBI arrested a 30-year-old Virginia man and charged him on Thursday with planting a pair of pipe bombs in Washington the night before the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, capping a years-long investigation that gave rise to numerous conspiracy theories. The suspect, Brian Cole Jnr, of Woodbridge, was charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials, Attorney General Pam Bondi and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335250/fbi-arrests-suspect-2021-capitol-riot-pipe-bomb-case-after-5-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335250/fbi-arrests-suspect-2021-capitol-riot-pipe-bomb-case-after-5-years?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:58:44 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump has denied a report that he was considering removing FBI Director Kash Patel amid a string of controversies. “No, he’s doing a great job, I think,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday aboard Air Force One. MS NOW reported earlier Tuesday that Trump was considering replacing Patel with FBI co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey, as concerns swirled over the director’s social media posts during high-profile investigations and the use of a government jet to visit his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334160/trump-denies-considering-ouster-fbi-director-patel-after-new-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334160/trump-denies-considering-ouster-fbi-director-patel-after-new-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:59:27 +0000 Reuters Reuters The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic members of the US Congress who in a video message told members of the military they can legally refuse to carry out unlawful orders, a Justice Department official said on Tuesday. The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall Senator Mark Kelly, a US Navy veteran and one of the six lawmakers, to active duty potentially to face military charges over what Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth described on social media as “seditious” acts. US President... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334151/fbi-probes-democratic-lawmakers-who-warned-us-military-about-illegal-orders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334151/fbi-probes-democratic-lawmakers-who-warned-us-military-about-illegal-orders?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:08:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against two perceived adversaries of US President Donald Trump, former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling the US attorney he hand-picked to prosecute them was unlawfully appointed. The ruling throws out two cases Trump had publicly called for as he pressured Justice Department leaders to move against high-profile figures who had criticised him and led investigations into his conduct. Lindsey... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3334006/judge-dismisses-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3334006/judge-dismisses-cases-against-james-comey-and-letitia-james?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:51:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters A US judge on Wednesday repeatedly questioned the validity of the grand jury indictment of former FBI director James Comey secured by a prosecutor closely aligned with US President Donald Trump in the latest signal that the charges may be dismissed before trial. After repeated questioning by US District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, prosecutors acknowledged that the final version of the indictment was never presented to the entire grand jury that approved the charges after panel members previously... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333461/us-judge-questions-validity-indictment-against-fbi-ex-chief-comey?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333461/us-judge-questions-validity-indictment-against-fbi-ex-chief-comey?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:10:02 +0000