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Republicans welcomed Kash Patel's confirmation, seeing him as someone who can fix the FBI's alleged targeting of conservatives in recent years.

The FBI on Tuesday said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order last month to release thousands of files.

The details on FBI employees comes in response to a Justice Department memo last week, asking for names of all current and former FBI personnel who worked on Jan. 6 cases or the prosecution of Hamas leaders.

The CIA released 55 documents related to its surveillance on Latino civil rights organizations last month. The FBI has not yet responded.

Does American law enforcement have a growing white supremacy problem? Investigations have proven over and over again— yes. But despite calls for reform, the law enforcement world largely tolerates white supremacists as members of its ranks and acts of overt racism by officers. Mike German is the author of Policing White Supremacy.

Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will the Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants.In the new book “Where Tyranny Begins,” Pulitzer Prize–recognized journalist David Rohde investigates how Trump systematically turned the country’s two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons.

The FBI would not confirm what kind of activity was taking place, nor would it confirm the business it was at. However, FBI agents could be seen at the San Antonio location Wednesday afternoon.

The FBI's report showed that Texas and Washington experienced the second most number of shootings in the country, coming after California.

They are serial killers riding in plain sights. They are a solitary breed of predators who avoid the law by being constantly on the move all across America. The FBI says there is a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along America’s roadways, and the perpetrators are long-haul truckers. The problem is so big the FBI opened up a special unit—the Highway Serial Killings Initiative.

The Texas Newsroom has obtained information and documents about the FBI investigation into Attorney General Paxton that sheds new light on its scope and activity.