FBI Top Stories

A basketball game between high-schoolers and the FBI sought to improve relations between the Bureau's Washington Field Office and the communities it serves and to show the students a possible future.

A wine blogger and travel enthusiast from New Jersey who disappeared during a 2019 trip and hasn’t been seen since has prompted the FBI to seek the public’s help finding him.

The FBI this week issued a new warning about an evolving online threat targeting minors and young adults: financially motivated sextortion.

FBI Director Christopher Wray on January 9 said the Bureau is well-postured to defend against foreign interference heading into the 2024 election cycle, despite the growing number of foreign actors and nation-states seeking to disrupt our democratic process.

The FBI seeks to bring closure in the 50-year-old case of Cathy Davidson, who was 6 years old when she was reported missing in Michigan, on September 1, 1973.

A look back at some of the FBI's accomplishments and challenges in 2023.

The FBI's SWAT program began in a handful of field offices in 1973 to better prepare agents for tactical responses. Today's modern SWAT is the largest tactical force in the country.

The Terrorist Screening Center was established in direct response to 9/11 to facilitate U.S. government agencies sharing watchlist information across agencies.

The FBI is committed to fostering partnerships between the Bureau and the communities it serves and protects—in times of peace and crisis, alike.

The U.S. government on December 6 announced that it has brought its first-ever charges under the War Crimes Act of 1996 against four Russian-affiliated soldiers who allegedly violated the human rights of an American residing in Ukraine amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.

When Ray Brewer was looking to make a ton of money, he tapped into the renewable energy industry, stealing almost $9 million from investors by claiming to build anaerobic digesters on dairies in California and Idaho.

The FBI, along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Department of State, announced the addition of Vitel’Homme Innocent to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Oklahoma City Field Office joined local Native American leaders and the author of a best-selling book about murders on the Osage Nation a century ago for a panel discussion in Oklahoma.

On November 8, 2023, Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home were arrested on suspicion of committing crimes related to abuse of a corpse, felony, money laundering, and forgery.

During an October 17 fireside chat with intelligence chiefs from across the Five Eyes partnership, FBI Director Christopher Wray called the Chinese Communist Party the foremost threat to global innovation and suggested that partnerships are the best way to fight back.

At an annual conference held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Director Christopher Wray reaffirmed the FBI’s commitment to work collaboratively with its law enforcement partners and insisted the close relationships are essential to fighting crime and protecting the American people against an array of threats.

A combination of 10 current and former officers and employees from the Antioch and Pittsburg (California) police departments were charged with multiple crimes.

The Indian Country Onboarding Program develops agents to operate with more autonomy and survivability and a more comprehensive investigative technique while working in Native American communities.

The Operation Not Forgotten initiative, along with the FBI’s broader Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) strategy, emphasizes the FBI’s continued dedication to address the violence impacting Indigenous communities.

When a wildfire devastated the island of Maui, the FBI was quick to offer assistance to our law enforcement partners in Hawaii.