Federal Bureau of Investigation

Because of differences in definitions, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime statistics intentionally ignore the rapes reported in many cities. Chicago reported 1400 rapes last year, but none were listed in FBI reports.

A new documentary from PBS Frontline looks at the FBI’s investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks and asks whether they found the perpetrator.

According to FBI forensic examiners, a hair can place a defendant at a crime scene with almost the same accuracy as we expect from fingerprints. But now the agency admits that was wrong — and has been during the decades of cases in which hair matching evidence was used.

Six Somali Americans from Minneapolis have been arrested and charged with terrorism for planning to join forces ISIS, marking just the latest instance of jihadi recruitment among Minnesota’s large Somali population.

Some activists who took part in environmental protests against the Keystone XL pipeline and other projects have attracted the attention of the FBI. They and their lawyers say the government is simply following a decades-old playbook of intimidation.