The affected employees include about a half-dozen “executive assistant directors,” who are some of the bureau’s top managers.

FBI agents who participated in the investigations that led to now-abandoned criminal charges against President Donald Trump are expected to be fired in a sweeping purge of the top US law ...

Kash Patel, the nominee for FBI director, is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing Thursday, when the former federal prosecutor could face questions ...

Kash Patel told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that he would focus on combating violent crime and cooperating with congressional oversight if confirmed as the next FBI director ...

WASHINGTON — David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, was notified Thursday that he was going to lose his job and is preparing to leave the bureau ...

A key GOP senator said he was exposing provocative internal emails from the FBI. A closer look, however, suggested there were no great revelations. By Steve Benen The Senate Judiciary Committee ...

The FBI could soon be led by someone who couldn’t make it through the background investigation required of all FBI employees. Kashyap “Kash” Patel will face the Republican-led Senate ...

The FBI has recorded a sharp spike in complaints that its own agents and employees have engaged in sexual misconduct, ranging from assault to harassment, despite a pledge by bureau leaders to ...

WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, will encounter deeply skeptical questioning from Democratic senators Thursday about his loyalty to the president and ...

In his confirmation hearing for FBI director on Thursday, Kash Patel presented himself as a man of experience, fairness, and devotion to civic duty. In the hours he spent in the room before the ...

I don't want to get into those details with my family here," Patel, 44, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the FBI Director. If confirmed ...