President Trump has promised a monumental shift within the FBI with a major change in leadership at the very top after former Director Christopher Wray and acting director Paul Abbate resigned.
President Donald Trump's nomination for FBI director, Kash Patel, will have his hearing next week on Jan. 30. The hearing will take place at 9:30 a.m. EST, according to a press release from Sen. Chuck Grassley,
John F. Kennedy's assassination has been the subject of enduring public fascination since he was killed in 1963.
A longtime FBI deputy director who had been expected to replace Director Christopher Wray on an acting basis is retiring from the bureau.
The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term.
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"We demand that the FBI preserve and retain all records, documents, and information on the now closing DEI Office," Trump said.
The president-elect said the deadly attack on Bourbon Street was a result of President Joe Biden's immigration policies.
The Trump administration has shut down processing centers in Central and South American countries that allowed migrants to apply to come to the United States legally.
Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook and John Bolton all played a role in the Trump-sanctioned drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassim Suleimani in 2020 — which made them subject to ongoing threats