The Justice Department has moved to fire a swath of senior FBI leaders and began a massive probe into agents who helped investigate the 2021 Capitol riot, beginning to reshape the US’s preeminent law ...

Trump said he was not aware of the removals. Officials also said that thousands of FBI agents who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are under review.

Bill Gore, former FBI assistant director and San Diego County sheriff, says this FBI purge is politically motivated in an agency that has only one political appointment: the director.

Leaders appointed by the Trump administration are identifying potentially hundreds of FBI agents for possible termination, said people familiar with the plan.

Top officials at the FBI are facing a shake up by the Trump administration. According to House Judiciary Committee Democrats, the five executive assistant directors of the bureau were notified ...

WASHINGTON — An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leading members of the Senate ...