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The FBI released documents on Monday showing that New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner had actually worked for them as an informant, including giving his assistance in a terrorism investigation, before he was given a pardon by President Ronald Reagan for illegal campaign contributions.

Social Security checks would still go out. Troops would remain at their posts. Furloughed federal workers probably would get paid, though not until later. And virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI ...

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was attending a small college near Lubbock, Texas. The FBI says he purchased chemicals and bomb components and kept a detailed journal outlining his targets, including former President George W. Bush's home in Dallas and dams in Colorado and California.

A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a probation violation charge Sunday, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby....

F.B.I. officials said that the Somali-born suspect thought he was detonating a car bomb in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland on Friday night, when in fact he had been set up in a sting operation.

Panicked as the FBI closed in Friday morning, Prince Georges County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife Leslie raced to find a $100,000 check for an alleged kickback and flush it down the toilet.

The FBI says it has found 69 child prostitutes across the country during a crackdown on the sexual exploitation of children over the last three days.

A set of John Lennon's fingerprints taken when he applied for US residence is confiscated by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer.

FBI arrests 133 people, including more than 60 cops alleged to have provided security for drug operations, in Puerto Rico corruption case.

The numbers, continuing a 20-year trend, defy expectations of higher crime during a period of economic problems. The nation's crime rate dropped 5% last year, continuing a 20-year trend that has cut the incidence of major crimes nearly in half, according to FBI statistics .