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The U.S. government has broad statutory authority to interdict, board, search and seize vessels suspected of drug trafficking under laws such as the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and the Drug Traf...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline reviews every report submitted and works to locate a jurisdiction so tips can be shared with appropriate U.S. law enforcement; the organization operates 24/7 and fields reports fr...
Overall national data show line-of-duty deaths for U.S. law enforcement fell sharply in 2025 to an 80‑year low of 111 fatalities, and multiple outlets that reviewed ICE’s internal numbers conclude ICE...
Using Tor or visiting .onion sites is not by itself a federal crime, but U.S. law enforcement has repeatedly used Tor-related activity as a lead, and technical compromises of Tor users have produced e...
Court‑authorized Network Investigative Techniques (NITs) have been used by U.S. law enforcement to deanonymize some Tor users and build criminal cases, and those uses have generated litigation and pub...
The REPORT Act raised the legal minimum preservation period for information tied to CyberTipline reports from 90 days to one year, letting providers preserve report contents up to 12 months and allowi...
is a broad 2001 law written to give and intelligence agencies faster, wider tools to detect, investigate and punish terrorism; in plain terms it loosened some rules about surveillance, access to third...
U.S. officials and multiple investigations have concluded that Russia has conducted sustained interference campaigns in U.S. elections using hacking, disinformation, and covert influence networks — no...
generates enormous volume—35.9 million reports in 2023—with over 1.1 million of those reports referred to as “referrals” that include sufficient detail for possible action . However, the public record...
’s CyberTipline triages reports by internal review, labeling and categorizing submissions (including an “immediate or impending harm” flag) and then forwards high-priority referrals to law enforcement...
DuckDuckGo consistently asserts it does not collect or store identifiable user search histories, and its public-facing policies and executive testimony show the company positions itself as unable to h...
The data needed to make a clean statistical comparison between local and federal prosecution outcomes for cases that began as referrals simply does not exist in a centralized, public form: itself says...
National overdose deaths involving fentanyl peaked in 2022 and fell in 2023–2024 according to provisional CDC data and federal reporting, while U.S. law enforcement and diplomatic tools—expanded inter...
Investigative reporting and official probes since 2019 have not produced a public, prosecutable link tying Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal sex‑trafficking conduct; public documents released...
The official 9/11 Commission Report presents a comprehensive reconstruction of the September 11, 2001 attacks, identifying al‑Qaeda as the architect and 19 Islamist hijackers as the perpetrators, diag...