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Federal Bureau of Investigation - January 08, 2024

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Table of Contents

IN THE NEWS

US Attorney General Convenes Panel on Violent Crime
Special Counsel Smith Has Spent More Than $12 Million On Trump Cases So Far
Iowa School Shooter Posted on Discord He Was 'Gearing Up' Before Gunfire
U.S. Grounds Some Boeing Max Planes for Safety Checks

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

Former Burisma Lawyer Registers Retroactively As Foreign Lobbyist After Biden Investigations
A Kansas Man Pleaded Guilty to Selling Plane Parts to Russia
FBI Issues Warning of China's Government Possibly Targeting U.S. Citizens in Texas
Why the U.S. Says China Is Stealing Al Secrets to Turbocharge Spying

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

Nearly 3,000 Pages Of Jeffrey Epstein Documents Released, But Some Questions Remain Unanswered
Michigan Man Gets 15 Years in Prison for Asking 13-Year-Old to Send Him Sexually Explicit Images
A Man Charged With Punching a Flight Attendant Also Allegedly Kicked a Police Officer in the Groin
Connecticut Military Veteran Charged With Making Threats Against Member of Congress, VA
Margaritaville Cruise Bartender Accused of Sexually Assaulting Two Women in Cabin, Impregnating One
The Questions That Remain a Year After Tyre Nichols's Death
Ex-FBI Informant Accused of Stabbing Derek Chauvin in BLM-Inspired Prison Attack Pleads Not Guilty
Heavy Police Presence in Massachusetts as FBI, ATF Assist Local Police With Search
Pennsylvania Journalist Charged With Sex Crimes Now Facing New Charges Involving Another Minor
Man Arrested After World of Warcraft Game Helps Police in Florida Find Missing 16-Year-Old Girl From Ohio

CYBER DIVISION

Cyber-Focused FBI Agents Deploy to Embassies Globally
FBI Warns Chinese Students in U.S. Of Extortion Scam

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

U.S. Fugitive Nicholas Rossi Extradited From Scotland
FBI Seeks Info on New Jersey Man Missing in Italy

CAPITOL VIOLENCE NEWS

The Supreme Court Will Decide If Donald Trump Can Be Kept Off 2024 Presidential Ballots
FBI Arrests Three In Florida On Charges Of Assaulting Officers In Jan. 6 Insurrection
New Video Shows Republican Congressman Scolding Jan. 6 Rioters Through Barricaded House Chamber
Jack Smith Responds To Trump Legal Team Arguing For Special Counsel To Be Held In Contempt
Jan. 6 Attack Resonates In Smaller-Scale Acts Of Political Violence
Three Years Later, Jan. 6 By The Numbers: More Than 1,200 Charged, More Than 460 Imprisoned For Role In Capitol Attack
Mike Pence Denounces Debunked FBI Jan 6 Conspiracy Theory Promoted by Trump
Bodycam Footage Details Rough Encounter Between Ex-Trump Campaign Aide, Smith Case Agents
Court Says Even Passive Members Of Jan. 6 Mob Can Be Convicted Of Disorderly Conduct
Google Location Data Was Used To Find Jan. 6 Rioters. It's Disappearing.
To Plead Or Not To Plead? That Is The Question For Hundreds Of Capitol Riot Defendants
Judge Rejects Lawsuit To Disqualify Georgia's Lieutenant Governor For Acting As Trump Elector
Three Years After Jan. 6, Trump's Immunity Claims To Take Center Stage
Former Law Enforcement Officer Says Biden Has Been Weak In Denouncing Jan. 6 Attack
Trump Vows To 'Take Over Our Capitol' On Anniversary Of Deadly Riot
Jan. 6 Defendants Plot New Strategy To Delay Cases
Special Counsel Probe Uncovers New Details About Trump's Inaction On Jan. 6: Sources
'Qanon Shaman' Demands the FBI Return the Horns He Wore During Riot
FBI Still Looking For Person Who Planted Pipe Bombs Ahead of Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
$30 Million Suit Filed Over Jan. 6 Protester Ashli Babbitt's Death
Editorial: Three Years Later, Beware Dangerous Revisionism of Jan. 6

OTHER FBI NEWS

Democrats Urge DOJ to Get Tougher on White-Collar Criminals
Worries Fly After Florida Journalist's Home Raided by FBI for Kanye West Video

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Israel Says Hamas Has Been Destroyed in North Gaza
Hezbollah Fires Rocket Barrage Into Israel as Blinken Mounts New De-Escalation Push
Israel Presses Egypt to Better Secure Borderland Against Hamas Smugglers
Short on Shells, Ukraine Relies on Explosive Drones to Hold Russia Back
Some Families of Kidnapped Migrants Paid Ransoms, Mexico Minister Says
A Small-Town Stabbing Takes On a Larger Significance for France
Woman Rescued From Rubble in Japan Five Days After Deadly Quake
A Year After Pro-Bolsonaro Riots and Dozens of Arrests, Brazil Is Still Recovering
Norwegian Mass Killer Attempts to Sue the State Once More for an Alleged Breach of Human Rights
India Court Restores Life Prison Sentences for 11 Hindu Men Who Raped a Muslim Woman in 2002 Riots

OTHER WASHINGTON NEWS

Supreme Court Allows Idaho To Enforce Near-Total Abortion Ban
House Republicans Ready Contempt of Congress Charges Against Hunter Biden for Defying a Subpoena
Ex-Cop Gets 14 Months in Jail in Death of Elijah McClain, Whose Mom Calls Him 'Bully With a Badge'
U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
After Part Of A Plane's Wall Blew Out, Feds Ground Some Boeings
Congress Has a Deal to Fund the Government and Not Much Time to Pass It
Johnson Gets Direct Channel With Senate Border Negotiators
A New Immigration Policy That Avoids A Dangerous Journey Is Working. But Border Crossings Continue
A California Law Banning The Carrying Of Firearms In Most Public Places Is Blocked Again
John Turscak, Accused Of Stabbing Derek Chauvin In Prison, Pleads Not Guilty
U.S. Released More Than 2.3 Million Migrants At Border Since 2021, Data Show
The U.S. Sees A Drop In Illegal Border Crossings After Mexico Increases Enforcement

BIG PICTURE

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Financial Times
ABC News
CBS News
NBC News
Fox News

WASHINGTON SCHEDULE

White House: President Biden, Vice President Harris
US Senate: No events scheduled.
US House of Representatives: No events scheduled.
Cabinet Members: Secretary of State Blinken meetings
Visitors: No events scheduled.
General Events: CATO Institute event

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