FBI Top Stories

In the moments after the country was attacked 20 years ago, many felt a profound new calling—a desire to help and to serve. It set some on a path to the FBI.

Update: Octaviano Juarez-Corro, who allegedly killed two people and injured three others when he brazenly fired multiple shots into a crowded Milwaukee park, was apprehended in Mexico on the evening of February 3, 2022.

The FBI has launched the Beacon Project, a program designed to create mutually beneficial relationships between the Bureau and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Twenty years after 9/11, personnel who responded to the attacks are still struggling with health issues related to exposure to toxins in the aftermath. More than 100 FBI employees have been affected thus far, and 17 have died as a result of their illnesses.

September 11, 2001 remains one of the most pivotal points in American history—and for the FBI, which still sees terrorism as the gravest threat to the U.S.

The FBI’s participation at a virtual National Girl Scout STEM Festival showed how much both organizations stand to gain from a closer relationship.

A Virginia obstetrician/gynecologist received a 59-year prison term after convincing women they needed unnecessary surgeries so he could profit from their insurance providers.

Get an inside look at the FBI’s Honors Internship Program from members of this summer’s intern class.

A spate of plane hijackings in 1961 prompted Congress to strengthen laws against crimes in the air.

A special agent in the San Juan Division is one of just a few African American women in the Bureau’s history to be selected for an FBI SWAT team.

The Oklahoma City Field Office has become one of the FBI’s busiest in the year since the Supreme Court affirmed that much of the eastern half of the state is tribal land.

The FBI is stepping up efforts with local law enforcement and civil rights groups to improve the reporting of hate crimes and enforcement of civil rights laws.

People over 60 lost nearly $1 billion in online frauds and scams last year. Learn more about common fraud schemes that target older people as well as practical tips on how to protect yourself and your loved ones from scammers.

An innovative, international effort cracked open the encrypted communications platforms relied on by criminal organizations.

In recognition of National Missing Children’s Day, we highlight the FBI's work to bring missing children home, whether they've been missing for days or decades.

A record-setting pace of reports to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center shows how pervasive cyber-enabled crimes and scams have become.

More than 360 investigators, analysts, and data scientists are working across dozens of agencies as part of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force to deter and detect crimes involving federal money.

FBI Director Christopher Wray thanked the nation’s law enforcement officers for their work keeping communities safe in remarks observing National Police Week.

The increasingly insular nature of the terrorism threat is a growing challenge, which is why the FBI is leaning even more on two things that have long been essential to its success: partnerships and help from an aware and informed public.

An initiative to translate FBI posters into Navajo illustrates one way the FBI and Native Americans are working together to solve missing and murdered indigenous persons cases.