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US Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Matt McCool, center, looks at live video surveillance feeds in the agency's New York Field Office, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
September 23, 2025, 7:38 pm
US dismantles telecom threat around UN that could have blacked out cell service in NYC
One of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on US soil, the cache found by Secret Service includes 300 SIM servers packed with 100,000 SIM cards clustered within 35 miles of UN
By Mike Balsamo
Bryan Kohberger, suspected in the murder of four University of Idaho students. (Monroe County (Pa.) Correctional Facility via AP)
December 31, 2022, 6:24 am
Criminology PhD student suspected in mysterious murders of 4 Idaho college students
Bryan Christopher Kohberger from Washington State University arrested over stabbing deaths at off-campus home at a nearby college last month
By Marc Levy, Rebecca Boone and Mike Balsamo
The entrance to the FBI headquarters in Cincinnati, August 11, 2022. (Liz Dufour/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
August 13, 2022, 7:16 pm
After Trump Mar-a-Lago search, Ohio gunman threatened FBI before being shot dead
Ricky Shiffer, 42, said on ex-president’s Truth Social platform: ‘If you don’t hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the FBI’
By Mike Balsamo and SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON
In this Oct. 1, 2020, photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, meets with Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., at the Capitol in Washington. Confirmation hearings begin Monday for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. If confirmed, the 48-year-old appeals court judge would fill the seat of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last month. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
October 12, 2020, 3:12 am
US Senate gears up for contentious Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing
Trump looks to cement conservative majority on US Supreme Court before Election Day and any election-related challenges that may follow voting
By Mark Sherman, LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and Mike Balsamo
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" march down East Market Street toward Lee Park during the 'Unite the Right"'rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
January 17, 2020, 12:54 am
FBI arrests 3 neo-Nazis ahead of Virginia pro-gun rally
Members of violent white supremacist group The Base planned to attend event; Virginian governor declared state of emergency and banned weapons from demonstration
By Michael Kunzelman and Mike Balsamo
Entrance to the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Florida, January 29, 2016. (Melissa Nelson/AP)
December 8, 2019, 11:26 pm
FBI says it presumes base shooting was terrorism; gunman was angry at US, Israel
Mohammed Alshamrani apparently used Twitter account under name similar to his own to criticize US policy, but investigators not sure if he wrote content himself or just shared it
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and Mike Balsamo
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi arrives at the Capitol in Washington, as she manages the impeachment inquiry of US President Donald Trump on September 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
September 27, 2019, 8:32 pm
Pelosi concerned about Trump’s whistleblower ‘spy’ comments
House speaker says panels conducting impeachment probe will make sure there’s no retaliation against people who provided information in case against president
By Zeke Miller, Eric Tucker and Mike Balsamo
A copy of a letter from Attorney General William Barr advising Congress that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation, is shown on March 22, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
March 23, 2019, 5:55 pm
In a plain envelope, a monumental message: Mueller’s done
After weeks of speculation over when report would be delivered, waiting game begins all over again as AG reviews its findings
By Jonathan Lemire, Mike Balsamo and MARY CLARE JALONICK
An anti-Mayor Bill de Blasio protester holds up a sign outside of Christ Tabernacle Church for the funeral of slain New York City Police Officer Rafael Ramos, one of two officers murdered while sitting in their patrol car in an ambush in Brooklyn last Saturday afternoon, on December 27, 2014 in New York City (photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
December 28, 2014, 2:30 am
Tensions linger as NYC officer mourned at funeral
Hundreds of officers turn their back on Mayor de Blasio over his perceived support for anti-police protesters
By Jonathan Lemire and Mike Balsamo
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