FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan has been reassigned after she told the public the New Orleans attack was "not an act of terror," sources tell Fox News.

In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024,” the bureau said in a statement provided to The Post.

This was the environment that created Al Capone. The first celebrity gangster, Capone was happy to be perceived as the head of an organised, nationwide mafia rather than a local gang. Federal prosecutors played into his hands by describing him as “glamorous” and “a bejewelled prince” living under a “halo of mystery and romance”.

President-elect Donald Trump has cried foul over the FBI shuttering its diversity, equity and inclusion wing just before his return to the White House. Trump and his MAGA allies have long railed against DEI,

The closure of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion follows the FBI facing accusations by Republican lawmakers of wrongfully prioritizing DEI.

More than 4,000 U.S. computers and networks have had malware files deleted by the FBI, which said it did not collect other information during the remote operations.

While some Republicans have hailed the pick, Donald Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has raised alarm among many national security veterans.

The FBI is holding a news conference on the three ballot drop box fires seen in the Pacific Northwest during the 2024 election.

The FBI’s DEI initiative has long been criticized by Republicans over concerns it has caused one of the country’s most powerful intelligence agencies to “abandon its core principle of attracting the most-qualified candidates and instead hire and advance employees based on gender/sexual orientation and race.”

(Reuters) - FBI leaders have warned that hackers who breached AT&T's system last year likely stole months of agents' call and text logs, prompting an urgent effort to safeguard confidential informants' identities, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

The second Donald Trump administration will start with fewer key staff in place than when Trump entered the White House for the first time eight years ago, with just a quarter of the political appointments made and ready to go when he is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday.