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After Nijjar's killing, FBI warned Sikhs in US about death threats
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Pritpal Singh, a political activist who is a coordinator for the American Sikh Caucus Committee, told The Intercept that he and two other Sikh Americans in California received calls and visits from the FBI after Nijjar was killed.
Trump likely to be indicted on classified documents hoarding issue
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"You should expected to be indicted by this year (likely in August)", some of his top advisors and legal team have given him fearlessly this rather unwelcome advice, media reports said. The FBI has been investigating whether or not Trump tried to obstruct its investigation prior to last year's raids on the ex-president's Florida.
Malcolm X's daughter says she's suing FBI, CIA, NYPD for his murder
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Shabazz, 60, made the announcement on Tuesday at the site in New York where he was shot dead 58 years ago, which has since been converted into a memorial site, reports the BBC. She was two-years-old when she saw three armed men shooting at her father 21 times as he was preparing to speak at a Harlem auditorium.
FBI finds additional classified file in ex-VP Mike Pence's home
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The search was conducted by FBI agents from Indianapolis and is not currently linked to other investigations into classified files, the BBC reported. In a statement on Friday, Devin O'Malley, an adviser to Pence, said that the former Vice President agreed to the consensual search and the additional file were removed following "a thorough and unrestricted search.
US Fed hikes interest rates by half percentage point
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"We have more work to do," Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell, said at a news conference. This was the seventh rate hike this year by the Fed in an unprecedented set of measures to reign in inflation. These harsh measures, which have the effect of curbing spending which slows down production, had, it was feared, could trigger a recession. More rate hikes are expected.
US charges 7 with military tech plot on Russian govt orders
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In an official statement issued on Tuesday, the DOJ said a 16-count indictment was unsealed on Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court in New York City. The seven persons are Yevgeniy Grinin, 44, of Moscow; Aleksey Ippolitov, 57, of Moscow; Boris Livshits, 52, of St. Petersburg; Svetlana Skvortsova, 41, of Moscow; Vadim Konoshchenok, 48, of St. Petersburg; Alexey Brayman, 35, of New Hampshire; and Vadim Yermolenko, 41, of New Jersey.
FBI concerned over China-linked 'police stations' in US
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A September report issued by the NGO Safeguard Defenders revealed that Chinese public security bureaus established the "overseas police service stations" in several continents, including two in London and one in Glasgow, the BBC reported. In North America, it found stations in Toronto and in New York.
Trump appointed Florida judge may be removed from Mar-a-Lago case
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Former federal prosecutor Robert Katzberg made the case that US District Judge Aileen Cannon's continued interference in the work being done by special master Raymond Dearie in the matter of government documents allegedly stolen by Donald Trump could lead to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals stepping in and taking the case from her, media reports here said.
Donald Trump could face criminal charges vis-a-vis classified documents, admit lawyers
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Donald Trump denied any wrong-doing saying he had declassified all documents that he took home but legal experts had questioned the validity of such a claim including his own White House staff saying there was no such communication and that the authority to declassify any secret document lay with the intelligence authorities.
FBI report of Chinese agent working at Twitter sparks calls for govt action
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The FBI informed Twitter of at least one Chinese agent among its employees, according to US Senator Chuck Grassley, while hacker and whistleblower Peiter Zatko said the company's lax security sparked fears that personal data on Chinese users was being collected by authorities in China, RFA reported.
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