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In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people were dead—and the story of Ruby Ridge was just ...

Updated January 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM CST The killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year old U.S. citizen, has broken through partisan gridlock over whether immigration enforcement agents' training and conduct ...

The video outlines documented FBI controversies from 1956 to 2011, highlighting significant cases and oversight concerns. It details COINTELPRO, the FBI surveillance program active from 1956 to 1971 ...

Thirty years ago, in the summer of 1992, Jess Walter was a staff writer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, when he got word of an armed standoff at an isolated mountaintop cabin in ...

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An encounter with white separatists decades ago led to new deadly force policies for some federal law enforcement. Minneapolis is raising... A deadly standoff in 1992 changed federal use-of-force ...