The packages contained "potential destructive devices," the FBI said. A person taken into custody was set to appear in federal court on Tuesday.

The Senate intelligence committee met Wednesday to review its recommendations about improving election security ahead of the 2018 midterms. Senators recommend more funding and IT support, but there is no consensus about how much or how to pay for it.

An estimated 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2016 — the vast majority of those were from heroin or synthetic opioids. New Hampshire is one of the states hardest hit by the epidemic and on Monday President Trump unveiled his plan to fight the crisis.

The economic restrictions target people named in an indictment brought by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

The FBI says it received multiple tips about the alleged Florida school shooter but did not follow proper protocols and had to explain those failings to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee say they have found no evidence of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Democrats have a different perspective.

The House intelligence committee's majority Republicans cleared Donald Trump's campaign on Monday of coordinating with Russia's attack on the 2016 election in a finding that minority Democrats are expected to dispute as premature.

Rick Gates, the business partner of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is expected to change his plea to guilty as early as Friday and begin cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Special counsel Mueller has unveiled 32 new charges of money laundering and other crimes against President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Robert Gates.

The special counsel's office has expanded an earlier indictment against President Trump's former campaign chairman and his business partner.

The White House is reviewing a Democratic memo that responds to Republicans allegations of purported FBI abuses of surveillance powers.

Following last week's release of a controversial GOP memo, the committee voted Monday to make public a counter Democratic memo. The memo will now be sent to the White House.

The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on whether to release a secret Democratic counter-memo that rebuts the one prepared by the majority and its chairman Devin Nunes.

Publication of the memo followed a bruising fight in Washington and deepened a nasty public dispute between the White House and its own FBI and Justice Department.

Tension between President Trump and the FBI is rising with the anticipated release of a GOP authored memo alleging that the FBI improperly used its surveillance authority and is biased in its role in the Russia investigation. FBI director Chris Wray opposes the release, but Trump has said he is certain to make it public.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down Monday as the bureau's No. 2 official. McCabe presided over the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and the Russia probe.

McCabe stepped down Monday from his post as the bureau's No. 2 official. As expected he will take accumulated leave and remain on the payroll until March when he is eligible to retire with full benefits. The departure plan had been in the works for a while. President Trump and his allies have made McCabe a favorite target of criticism in recent months.

News reports indicate that President Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last June. We discuss what this means for the Mueller investigation going forward.

The New York Times reports that President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller in June, but the top White House lawyer threatened to quit rather than carry out the firing.

A new report says President Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller but backed off when a White House lawyer threatened to quit. Also, Trump is speaking to world leaders in Davos.