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Two members of the FBI's ultra-elite Hostage Rescue Team were killed Friday during a training accident involving a helicopter off the coast of Virginia Beach.A spokeswoman for the FBI's Norfolk office, Vanessa Torres, confirmed Sunday the accident occurred Friday afternoon off the Virginia Beach coast, but did not provide additional details. The FBI said in a statement that the two men killed were Special Agent Christopher Lorek, 41, and Special Agent Stephen Shaw, 40."We mourn the loss of two brave and courageous men," FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said. "Like all who serve on the Hostage Rescue Team, they accept the highest risk each and every day, when training and on operational missions, to keep our nation safe. Our hearts are with their wives, children, and other loved ones who feel their loss most deeply. And they will always be part of the FBI Family."Lorek joined the FBI in 1996 and is survived by his wife and two daughters, ages 11 and 8, while Shaw joined in 2005 and is sur...
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday the bureau has launched an investigation into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device a...
Yemen says FBI director Robert Mueller has held talks with Yemen's new president on the fight against Al Qaeda militants in the impoverished Arab nation.Yahya al-Ara...
The father of a student charged with conspiracy in the Boston Marathon bombing case insists his son is not a terrorist and said the 19-year-old believes his friend D...
FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau is assisting the Defense Department in its criminal investigation into the release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military do...
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The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward w...
The father of a student charged with conspiracy in the Boston Marathon bombing case insists his son is not a terrorist.Amir Ismagulov, (ah-MEER' is-MAH'-gool-ov) the...
FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its terrorism-era authority to gather telephone, e-mail and ...
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, New York, suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have ...
The FBI will ask its former director to do an independent review of the bureau's actions in the months leading up to the Fort Hood military base massacre that left 1...
The FBI will ask its former director to do an independent review of the bureau's actions in the months leading up to the Fort Hood military base massacre that left 1...
It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Was...
Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller are facing mounting questions over why they neglected to tell the rest of the Obama administration about...
NASA has locked its facilities to foreigners, disabled online research databases and ordered a complete review of access by foreign nationals to its facilities, as a...
A U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig was caught trying to recruit a Russian counterintelligence officer in Moscow, Russia's security services announced Tuesday, ...
FIFA appointed former United States attorney Michael J. Garcia on Tuesday as lead prosecutor to investigate allegations of corruption in world soccer.One of Garcia's...
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday the bureau has launched a preliminary investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. following a $2 billion trading loss at the ban...
The House has voted to authorize FBI Director Robert Mueller to keep his job for up to two more years.The voice vote Monday sent the legislation to the president.One...