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Racist text messages following the election are getting the attention of the New York Attorney General’s office. The unknown culprits have been targeting Black people nationwide. News 4’s Kay Angrum spoke with a Harlem resident who received one of those texts. 

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies. The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennesee. They generally used a similar tone but varied in wording....

The FBI and New York attorney general’s office are investigating. Tracie Strahan reports.

The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors.

The FBI has confirmed that federal agents have boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse.

When the FBI said this week that Iran had tried to provide Democrats with material stolen from Donald Trump’s campaign, it was only the latest allegation of foreign interference with the U.S. election.

It now appears there are three separate federal criminal investigations touching upon City Hall as well as members of the NYPD. Some of the city’s highest ranking officials were told by the feds to turn over their phones or electronic devices. No one has been charged with any wrongdoing, but the latest investigative steps appear to be an apparent major...

The FBI searched a Nassau County home Tuesday morning that property records show belongs to a former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, law enforcement sources close to the case confirmed. Federal officers were seen around the Manhasset property linked to Linda Sun, who left the governor’s office nearly two years go. Sun and her...

The FBI searched a Manhasset home Tuesday morning which property records show belongs to a former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have arrested and charged a man with allegedly placing bets and coordinating his betting with former NBA player Jontay Porter, according to NBA league records and a copy of the criminal complaint filed by prosecutors in Brooklyn.

A former National Security Agency employee who sold classified information to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian official has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison, the penalty requested by government prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Raymond Moore said Monday that he could have put 32-year-old Jareh Sebastian Dalke behind bars for even longer.

A league investigation found that the former Toronto Raptors forward violated league rules by disclosing information to sports bettors and betting on NBA games.

Ervin Bolling was a supporter of Donald Trump, according to postings uncovered by the group Advance Democracy.

The FBI says a driver rammed a vehicle into the front gate of its Atlanta office, but his motives were not immediately known.

The FBI carried out a raid of a home belonging to another top aide of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. On Thursday, federal agents could be seen taking boxes of material from the Bronx home of Winnie Greco, who serves as the mayor’s Asian affairs liaison. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

FBI agents searched the homes of two FDNY chiefs involved with the safety inspection process of buildings in New York City in connection with a corruption investigation, according to three people briefed on the matter. Jonathan Dienst reports.

FBI agents searched the homes of two FDNY chiefs in connection with a corruption investigation related to possible bribes in exchange for speedier building approvals, according to sources familiar with the matter. The city’s Department of Investigation sealed the chiefs’ third-floor offices at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn as part of a search Thursday morning, three people briefed on the...

A man convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting was ordered freed from prison by a judge who criticized the FBI for relying on an “unsavory” confidential informant for an agency-invented conspiracy to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon on Friday granted James Cromitie, 58, compassionate release from prison six months…

The FBI’s office in Newark is asking for the public’s help finding a 36-year-old New Jersey man who was last seen hiking in a remote area of Italy more than four years ago. Liam Biran left his Marlboro home on April 8, 2019, to visit his grandparents in Israel, and from there, he traveled to wine country in Italy. Biran…

A man who died after crashing an SUV loaded with gas cans outside an upstate New York concert venue appeared to have been aiming at a pedestrian crossing, but investigators have found no evidence that the crash that killed two ride-hail passengers early on New Year’s Day was terror-related, police said Tuesday. Rochester police Chief David Smith told a news conference...