The FBI has intensified its use of polygraph tests under Director Kash Patel, moving beyond traditional security checks to ...

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt the background checks for dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, ABC News sources say.

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt the background checks for dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, ABC News sources say.

Wicker and Reed were initially briefed about the FBI’s background check before the confirmation hearing, according to another source familiar with the matter. Since then, ...

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt the background checks for dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, ABC News sources say.

The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt the background checks for dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, ABC News sources say.

The last time the FBI did less than 2 million checks in a month was September 2018. In 2024, FBI firearm background checks were 28,097,025 to mark the lowest annual level since 2019.