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It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Petito's death on Laundrie. The FBI also said Laundrie had sent texts to deceive people that Petito was still alive.

It was the first time authorities squarely pinned the blame for Gabby Petito's death on him, though he was the prime suspect all along.

The agency said it is wrapping up its investigation, concluding that Brian Laundrie alone was directly involved in the death of Gabby Petito.

Brian Laundrie admitted in a journal to killing Gabby Petito during a cross-country trip, says the FBI.

Petito died of "blunt-force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation," according to the FBI.

Moab PoliceBrian Laundrie scrawled messages in a notebook admitting that he killed his girlfriend Gabby Petito, the FBI said in a statement Friday as they announced that their investigation into the couple’s deaths was now closed. The notebook was found alongside Laundrie’s remains in a wooded area in Florida in October, weeks after police say he killed Petito while they were traveling the country in a van.“The FBI’s primary focus throughout the investigation was to bring justice to Gabby and he

A University of Arkansas professor pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about patents he had for inventions in mainland China. Simon Saw-Teong Ang pleaded guilty in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to one count from a 58-count federal indictment. Prosecutors say 24 patents bearing Ang’s name were filed with the Beijing government but that he failed to report the patents to the university and denied having them when questioned by the FBI.

In a new book, a cold-case team identifies a Jewish man as the likely culprit, stirring questions about culpability in extreme circumstances.

Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito's fiancé, was found dead in a Florida nature preserve weeks after the 22-year-old's body was discovered in Wyoming.

An FBI official says that in the final moments of a 10-hour standoff with a gunman at a Texas synagogue, the remaining hostages and the officials trying to negotiate their release took “near simultaneous plans of action,” with the hostages escaping as an FBI tactical team moved in.

He allegedly wrote a graphic Craigslist post about killing three officials and harming law enforcement families. The case is the first brought by the Justice Department's election threats task force.

A Canton Township man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after he told a young girl to make pornographic videos on a cellphone around 30 times, officials said.

A Dearborn Heights man who worked at a pharmacy in Farmington Hills has been sentenced to prison for his role in a $9.8 million fraud scheme.

Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar’s home and campaign office were raided as part of a federal investigation into to the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Cuellar's office said in a statement that he will "fully cooperate in any investigation."

An intelligence bulletin obtained by CBS News says federal law enforcement officials have seen signs since the standoff that it might inspire similar incidents.

FBI agents searched near the Texas home of U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar on Wednesday as they conducted what an agency spokeswoman called “court-authorized law enforcement activity.” “The FBI was present in the vicinity of Windridge Drive and Estate Drive in Laredo conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity,” spokeswoman Rosanne Hughes said. “The FBI cannot provide further comment on an ongoing investigation.”

The Biden administration is planning to give out 400 million free N95 masks to Americans in the coming weeks as the coronavirus surge tightens its grip on hospitals in hard-hit areas of the country. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans reports from Missouri, where COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising among the unvaccinated. Then, Dr. Payal Patel, an infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan Medical School, joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss the latest.

ABC News’ Will Carr reports on new, cutting-edge bioelectronic medicine that holds promise for treating diseases like Crohn’s and Parkinson’s.

The masks come from the nation’s strategic supply and they’ll be available at community health centers and pharmacies as soon as next week.

Former Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to a bribery charge in connection with the federal probe into a Detroit corruption scandal.

Former Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey has been sentenced to two years in prison for accepting nearly $36,000 in bribe payments in connection with a towing corruption investigation.

For many Jewish leaders, the hostage standoff in a Texas synagogue was all too familiar.

Akram was not believed to be included in the Terrorist Screening Database, a listing of known or suspected terrorists maintained by the FBI.

As we inch closer to sentencing for former Detroit City Council member Andre Spivey, one of the most significant deciding factors in how severe his sentencing will be is how much he’s cooperated with the FBI during this investigation.

The gunman took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death.

The gunman took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death.

The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments.

Thousands of New Yorkers could be left without a home after the state's eviction moratorium expired. "The City" reporter Rachel Holliday Smith joined CBSN to discuss the response from landlords and the resources available for tenants.

Gretta Goodwin says the FBI's program may be dissolved permanently — because local police departments are simply not cooperating.

Gretta Goodwin says the FBI's program may be dissolved permanently — because local police departments are simply not cooperating.

All four people who were taken hostage emerged unharmed.

Authorities in the U.K. say they arrested two men in connection with Saturday’s attack at a Texas synagogue. The suspect who held hostages during a nearly 11-hour standoff with law enforcement near Dallas was a 44-year-old old British citizen, according to the FBI. Omar Villafranca reports.

The suspect was identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, who was killed Saturday night after the four hostages were released.

Overnight winter weather that slammed the Southeast over the weekend moved north, causing massive power outages and coating roads in a dangerous mix of snow and ice. Nikki Battiste has the latest from upstate New York.

A new investigation identifies a suspect who may have told the Nazis about the Jewish diarist's hideout.

Briton Malik Faisal Akram died in a standoff with police after taking four hostages.

The hostage taker was was 44-year-old British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, authorities said. There was no indication that other people were involved in the incident, the bureau added.

The FBI has identified the man who held four people hostage in a Texas synagogue Saturday. He was a 44-year-old British citizen. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca joins CBSN to discuss more.

The FBI has identified the man killed after taking hostages at Texas synagogue as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram.

The FBI is being slammed for saying the Congregation Beth Israel hostage taker’s demands were “not specifically related to the Jewish community.”

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The FBI had concerns about an undercover informant’s overreach in the investigation into an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a defense attorney said. The government also had concerns that the paid informant had planned to travel to Michigan to harm someone – and may have possessed a firearm despite being a convicted felon, the attorney said.

Police in England say they have arrested two teenagers in their investigation into an armed British national holding four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue.

Trump said Democrats "protected" the officer who fatally shot riot Ashli Babbitt and added that the officer was "proud of himself."

"We're going to decertify Biden electors in Arizona, in Wisconsin, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and in the great state of Georgia," Bannon said.

Interviews suggest officials are not taking steps to directly probe the former president or his inner circle.

A little less than two years after authorities say he faked his death from cancer, Nicholas Rossi Alahverdian was found sick with covid in a Scottish hospital.

A man accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl was apprehended in Mexico on Wednesday, 21 years after he fled following his arrest in Minnesota, according to law enforcement. Curtis Lee Brovold, 67, was accused of having sex with the girl from Moorhead, Minnesota, whom he met online in 2000. Brovold was arrested later that year and charged with criminal sexual conduct, but he failed to show up for a court hearing and was placed on the most wanted page of the FBI's Crimes Against Children unit.

Authorities who investigated a 2019 mass shooting that left nine dead in Dayton, Ohio, say they found no evidence that the gunman targeted the sister who was among the victims.

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The man was seen leaning out of an open cockpit window at the international airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

"The threat posed by domestic terrorism is on the rise," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

More information about how federal agents were able to get audio recordings of a group of men accused of plotting to kidnap and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

The panel interviewed Ray Epps, an Arizona man who was on the Capitol grounds on the day of the attack and who is at the center of a baseless, right-wing theory accusing the FBI of planting agents to incite violence that day.

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A House panel investigating the Capitol riot poured cold water on a conspiracy suggesting the FBI was involved in inciting the Jan. 6 invasion.

The new domestic terror unit was unveiled days after the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, when former President Donald Trump's supporters invaded the Capitol.

The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism.

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Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI’s excavation.

A year after thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of people who assaulted officers and committed other crimes still haven't been caught.

A former Detroit police detective has been charged with bribery in connection with the federal probe into a Detroit corruption scandal.

The FBI and Better Business Bureau (BBB) are issuing warnings about gift card scams this holiday season.

The Justice Department says an engineer who worked for decades as a federal defense contractor has been arrested on charges of trying to pass classified information to someone he thought was a Russian agent but who was actually an undercover FBI employee.

The sexual abuse victims of national gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar have reached a settlement.

The former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has agreed to plead guilty to taking bribes in a corruption scandal.

All Ann Arbor Public Schools buildings will be closed on Friday as the district, law enforcement review threats made online.

The Oakland County sheriff issued a stern warning Thursday after dozens of school threats were made in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting at Oxford High School.

The FBI’s confirmation last week that it was looking at a spot next to a New Jersey landfill as a possible burial site for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is the latest chapter in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975.

The decadeslong odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to land near a former New Jersey landfill that sits below an elevated highway.

Authorities provided an update during a news conference Friday on their investigation into the abduction of a teenager in Ferndale, who has since been safely recovered.

The FBI's confirmation Friday that it was looking at a former New Jersey landfill as a possible burial site for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is the latest development in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975.

After going missing 46 years ago from Bloomfield Township, the search for Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa has been reinvigorated with a new lead.

The decades-long odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to land near a former New Jersey landfill that sits below an elevated highway.

New details are expected Friday from authorities investigating the possible abduction of a Ferndale High School student who has since been safely recovered.

One of the men exonerated decades after the 1965 killing of Malcolm X says that “I am an 83-year-old man who was victimized by the criminal justice system.”.

The reward for information that may help authorities locate a teen who went missing on Michigan State University’s campus last month has increased to $11,000.

Five people have been arrested in connection to at least seven carjackings across Metro Detroit.

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.

Three years after the remains of a father who had disappeared 13 months prior were found in the woods off of I-94 in Michigan, the FBI is offering $10,000 for information that exposes the murderer.

A suspected Ukrainian hacker has been arrested and charged in the United States in connection with a string of costly ransomware attacks, including one that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend.

The Supreme Court is struggling with whether to allow a lawsuit by Muslim men claiming religious bias by the FBI to go forward.

Federal agents searched the New York homes of people tied to the conservative group Project Veritas months after the group received a diary that a tipster claimed belonged to President Joe Biden’s youngest daughter.

Federal officials say they have referred more than three dozen airline passengers for possible criminal prosecution this year, as airlines report a surge in the number of disruptions on flights.

A Russian analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia investigation has been charged with lying to the FBI when questioned about his work.

The FBI has released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the Sept. 11 attacks.

The FBI surveillance plane that captured footage of the night Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year was part of a wider government strategy to keep tabs on demonstrations against racial injustice.

A reexamined autopsy ordered by the FBI in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene has rejected the Louisiana State Police claim that a car crash caused his fatal injuries.

The Local 4 Defenders are getting new insight into the Detroit towing scandal and how it worked.

If you buy a fake COVID-19 vaccine card you aren’t just committing a crime, you’re also putting your identity at risk.

The Detroit FBI office has created an email address for members of the public to report suspicions of public corruption directly to federal agents and analysts.

An Adrian man and former Christian school teacher has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on child porn charges.

A former treasurer for Hazel Park has been charged with using two resident property tax checks to pay for her own personal expenses, officials said.

Around 1:15 p.m., Ann Arbor police asked residents to avoid the area near Washtenaw Avenue and Huron Parkway.

An attorney says family members are hoping for more answers from law enforcement regarding the cause of death for Brian Laundrie, who was a person of interest in the death of girlfriend Gabby Petito.

An FBI agent has testified that authorities found a trash bag of shredded documents, thousands of dollars in cash, latex gloves and a “go-bag” when they searched the home of a Maryland couple accused of trying to sell information about nuclear-powered warships to a foreign country.

A judge refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas, even though one of his convictions was dismissed after it was discovered the FBI withheld surveillance video at his trial.