National A protective order is unlikely to curb Trump or affect his popularity A hearing is set for Friday on the parameters of a possible protective order dictating how former President Donald Trump and his legal team can talk about evidence in the Jan. 6 criminal case. Jaclyn Diaz
National Seattle woman's escape from cinder block cell likely spared others from same fate, FBI says A woman who escaped her kidnapper by punching her way out of a homemade cell in southern Oregon likely saved other women from a similar fate, authorities said. The Associated Press
National Negligence, staff failures led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, a DOJ report says The disgraced financier who was jailed for sex trafficking charges, killed himself at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He died before standing trial. Jaclyn Diaz
Technology A 3-hour phone call that brought her to tears: Impostor scams cost Americans billions Imposter scams are top U.S. fraud now: Con artists are using new technology to get real time information plus voice cloning and caller ID spoofing to make it even harder to tell truth from fiction. Dara Kerr
National Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who was convicted of spying for Russia, dies in prison The 79-year-old Hanssen was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Colorado and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes. The Associated Press
House panel sets hearing to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress The Republican-led House Oversight Committee will meet Thursday morning to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. If approved, the full House would vote on the charge. Claudia Grisales
National Feds barged into the wrong hotel room during a drill, then detained the guest inside U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the FBI-Boston Division interrogated the wrong person during a training exercise on Tuesday: an airline pilot who was asleep at the time, per local media. Rachel Treisman
National An ex-aide to Maryland's former governor is dead after a manhunt, lawyer says A former Maryland political aide wanted on corruption charges died Monday after he was wounded while being confronted by law enforcement agents, his lawyer said, following a manhunt. The Associated Press
Politics DOJ is searching Biden's Delaware vacation home as part of classified document search The DOJ is searching President Biden's home in Rehoboth, Del. on Wednesday as part of its investigation into classified documents found among his personal files, Biden's lawyer said in a statement. Washington Desk
National A former high-level FBI agent faces charges for aiding a sanctioned Russian oligarch Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, allegedly worked with Oleg Deripaska, who has been on the U.S. sanctions list since 2018. Jaclyn Diaz
