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Feds Shut Down Backpage.com, Charge the Owner Amid Human Trafficking
Federal authorities on Friday shut down and seized Backpage.com, a classifieds website that has drawn intense scrutiny for its sex ads, some of which included teenagers.
FBI’s Top Congressional Liaison Quietly Steps Down for Private Sector Job
The FBI’s top liaison on Capitol Hill quietly left his job on March 30.
Celebrated Civil Rights Photographer Doubled As a Secret FBI Informant
Photographer Ernest Withers won over the trust of civil rights leaders, capturing some of the most iconic images of the civil rights era.
Pro-Trump Militiamen on Trial in Plot to Blow Up Muslims in Kansas Apartment
Patrick Stein, a right-wing militia member who thought Trump was “the Man” and Muslims were “cockroaches” that needed to be exterminated, met what he thought was a weapons dealer in a remote field in western Kansas.
Trump Pledges to Deploy National Guard Troops in Not-So Unprecedented Move
President Trump boldly signed a proclamation Wednesday directing National Guard troops to the southwest border in what he falsely called an unprecedented move to crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
Former Head FBI’s Minneapolis Division Running for Governor in Kansas
Michael Tabman, the former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis division, is running for governor in Kansas.
That Time the FBI Urged Martin Luther King Jr. to Kill Himself
When Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in October 1964, the FBI was furious.