The Department of Homeland Security has enlisted the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in recent weeks to conduct welfare checks on children and young people who came to the United States without ...

FBI background checks have been lightning rods during previous contentious confirmation fights. After sexual misconduct allegations nearly tanked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination in ...

The legislation would more than double that number, to about 15,000. The bill requires background checks for some professions, and allows them for others. State law must authorize an FBI criminal ...

How Trump can bypass FBI background checks and security clearance for his key cabinet picks - President-elect allegedly ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting ...