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US recovers billions worth of stolen bitcoin in record financial seizure

US authorities said they seized $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.

Perversion of justice: US federal informants committed over 22,000 crimes

US federal agencies paid $548 million to informants working for the FBI, DEA and ATF in recent years.

US court convicts first extradited Chinese national of economic espionage

Yanjun Xu could face up to 60 years in prison and a $5 million fine for all violations. In 2020, cybercrime cost the world over $1 trillion in losses, according to a McAfee report.

US opens police-bias probe into Breonna Taylor's killing

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a sweeping investigation into policing in Louisville, Kentucky, over the March 2020 killing of the Black woman in a botched police raid.

US attorney general announces Minneapolis police probe

Attorney General Merrick Garland says the verdict in George Floyd's murder case does not address systemic policing issues in Minneapolis.

US President Biden outlines plans to tamp down on gun violence 'epidemic'

New measures include plans for the Justice Department to crack down on self-assembled "ghost guns," and make "stabilising braces" subject to registration under the National Firearms Act.

US contractor pleads guilty to leaking secrets to Iran-backed Hezbollah

Investigators say Mariam Taha Thompson accessed and shared with a Lebanese citizen dozens of files about human sources who had helped US kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani last year.

Biden says Justice Department looking into Georgia election law

A coalition of civil rights groups sued the state in Atlanta federal court just hours after it was signed into law, arguing that the measures are intended to make it harder for people – particularly Black voters – to cast ballots.

'Baseless': Russia says US provided no evidence of election meddling

A 15-page American intelligence report has added heft to longstanding allegations that some of Donald Trump’s top lieutenants were playing into Moscow’s hands.

United Airlines will pay $49 million to settle air mail fraud case

The US Justice Department says former employees of United’s cargo division falsified parcel-delivery information allowing the airlines to collect millions of dollars in payments.

US charges North Korean hackers in $1.3B global theft scheme

The Justice Department said the hackers were responsible for a wide range of criminal activity and high-profile intrusions across South and Southeast Asia, Mexico, and Africa, including a retaliatory 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.

More than a dozen people charged over US Capitol violence

A federal prosecutor says the Washington US attorney's office does not expect to charge anyone with "incitement" or "insurrection" amid calls for legal action against President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others for encouraging the Capitol riots.