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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

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Trump DOJ launches federal investigation into 2020 Georgia election

Rule Changes

Executing search warrants for 2020 election materials

On January 28, 2026, FBI agents seized 700 boxes of 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County warehouse. Four days later, on February 1, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution urging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to hand over unredacted voter data to the DOJ — he refused, citing state privacy laws.

Updated 6 days ago

ICE shoots American mother, ignites mass uprising

Force in Play

Leading investigation, blocking state involvement

ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots in 700 milliseconds, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in her car on a Minneapolis street. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, standing with her wife to support neighbors during Trump's self-proclaimed "largest immigration operation ever"—2,000 federal agents deployed to Minnesota.

Updated May 20

ICE blocks congressional oversight after fatal Minneapolis shooting

Force in Play

Investigating ICE shooting while excluding state authorities and DOJ Civil Rights Division

Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.

Updated May 20

Federal agent kills Minneapolis woman during Trump's mass deportation campaign

Force in Play

Leading investigation into Good's killing

An ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good through her car window on a Minneapolis street January 7, killing the 37-year-old mother instantly. Federal officials claimed self-defense, saying Good weaponized her Honda Pilot to ram agents. But video shows something different: a woman slowly backing up and pulling forward, trying to leave, before an officer fires three shots into her head. "Having seen the video myself, that is bullshit," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The shooter: Jonathan Ross, a 43-year-old deportation officer who was dragged fifty yards by a vehicle he tried to forcibly enter just six months earlier. Seventeen days later, on January 24, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and legal gun owner. Video shows Pretti filming agents with his phone, getting pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six agents, then shot at least ten times. DHS claimed he was armed and violent. Video evidence again contradicts the official account. At least six federal prosecutors resigned in protest over how investigations were being handled—pressure to investigate victims' families rather than the shooters. On January 24, FBI agent Tracee Mergen, supervisor of the Public Corruption Squad in Minneapolis, resigned over pressure to "reclassify/discontinue the investigation" into Good's killing and focus instead on her widow Becca. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara noted that two of the city's three homicides in 2026 were committed by federal agents.

Updated May 19

Brown University shooting turns finals week into a citywide manhunt — and a long, painful reckoning

Force in Play

Assisted with manhunt and investigative support

Brown's Dec. 13 shooting evolved from a campus lockdown into an extended manhunt. Gunfire killed two students—Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov—and wounded nine others; the initially detained suspect was released, and investigators have used residential and vehicle-camera footage to track the shooter's movements.

Updated May 15

Justice Department prosecutes former officials under Trump's second term

Force in Play

Investigating agency in the threat case

James Comey deleted the Instagram post within hours of publishing it. Nearly a year later, a federal grand jury in North Carolina charged him with two counts of threatening the President of the United States over the same fifteen-character image: '8647' written above seashells. The indictment, returned April 28, 2026, is the second federal case Trump's Justice Department has brought against the former FBI Director—the first, filed in Virginia in September 2025, was dismissed when a judge ruled the interim prosecutor had been unlawfully appointed. Alongside the new indictment, Judge Louise Wood Flanagan issued an arrest warrant for Comey; he may be allowed to self-surrender rather than be taken into custody. Within hours, Comey posted a video response on his Substack: 'I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid.'

Updated Apr 29

Chinese hackers breach FBI's own surveillance network

Force in Play

Victim and lead investigator of the DCS-3000 breach

Salt Typhoon, a hacking group tied to China's Ministry of State Security, spent years quietly burrowing into American telecommunications networks — AT&T, Verizon, and at least seven others — accessing the systems that carry out court-authorized wiretaps. Now it has reached the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) itself. On April 1, 2026, the FBI classified a breach of its Digital Collection System Network, the internal platform managing surveillance operations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as a 'major incident' — the most serious cybersecurity designation available under federal law. It is the first time the bureau has made that determination about its own systems since at least 2020.

Updated Apr 2

Armed attack on Michigan synagogue exposes domestic front of Middle East conflict

Force in Play

Leading Hezbollah-inspired terrorism investigation

A 41-year-old naturalized citizen from Lebanon rammed a truck loaded with fireworks and an unidentified chemical accelerant through the front doors of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on March 12, then exited armed with a rifle. Synagogue security guards shot and killed him before he reached any of the 140 children and staff inside. The building caught fire from the incendiary materials, sending 30 first responders to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but every student and teacher survived unharmed.

Updated Apr 1