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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.

The FBI and CIA surveilled the Latino civil rights movement and its leaders in the 1960s and '70s at the height of the communist panic. Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro and his mother, activist Rosie Castro, talk about the effort to establish a clear historical record of the movement.

The United Farm Workers of America became a target of FBI surveillance during the communist scare of the 1960s and '70s. Arturo Rodriguez spent over 50 years with the UFW. He talks about working alongside civil rights leader Cesar Chávez and about government surveillance of their movement.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed the deaths during his Tuesday press conference. The Tamaulipas governor also confirmed that one of the surviving citizens was wounded. The other was not.

Writer Jeff Guinn draws on new interviews with federal agents and surviving Branch Davidians in his account of the confrontation, which left scores of people dead, including more than 20 children.

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels took to social media to decry the search and warn Texans that the heavy hand of government could come for them next.