WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to attend a Senate hearing on canceled plans to put a new FBI headquarters in Maryland or Virginia. The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works was to hold a hearing Wednesday ...

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NEW YORK — A company that owns buildings with Donald Trump and the family of Jared Kushner is a finalist for a $1.7 billion contract to build the FBI’s new headquarters. Vornado Realty Trust of New York, and its partner, ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for FBI director — a former Justice Department official who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s lawyer during the George Washington Bridge lane-closing investigation. Trump’s early morning two-sentence tweet ...

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GREENBELT — Officials believe Greenbelt will need about 60 percent more parking spaces than initially projected if the city is chosen as the site of the FBI’s new headquarters. A draft Environmental Impact Statement released in 2015 estimated only 3,600 ...

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If the DNA test is good enough for the FBI, it’s good enough for us, Maryland’s top court says in upholding a double-murder conviction and double-life sentence.

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WASHINGTON — The FBI will launch a pilot project early next year to begin collecting use-of-force statistics nationwide and create the first online national database on both deadly and nonfatal interactions the public has with law enforcement. “Accurate and comprehensive data ...

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Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa once told a court during a custody dispute that he worried his ex-wife’s new husband was too close to Islamic radicals under FBI investigation and she might raise their child in an “extremist environment.” A little over ...

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Officials from the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore are launching a new academy focusing on terrorism and counter-terrorism studies they hope will entice the FBI to relocate its headquarters to Greenbelt. Based at the College ...

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WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey warned again Tuesday about the bureau’s inability to access digital devices because of encryption and said investigators were collecting information about the challenge in preparation for an “adult conversation” next year. Widespread encryption built ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region’s transit police bought about $250 worth of gift cards for someone he ...

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