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Foreign governments are illegally detaining more U.S. citizens than are terror groups.

Ms. Foley, whose son was killed by terrorists in the Middle East, has pressured the White House under three presidents to raise the profiles of Americans held overseas.

A Florida man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for attempting to defraud Rep. Matt Gaetz's father.

The 7th annual James Foley Freedom Awards were held Wednesday night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

And Jill Biden will head to the Ukraine border.

A hacking group known in the private sector as MuddyWater was recently identified by the U.S. Cyber Command Cyber National Mission Force as a subordinate element of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

Share In Ohio, a 57-year-old manufacturing plant employee was arrested after she texted her sister that a man who had been fired the day before had returned with a gun, which was an April Fools’ Day joke. By ­It was reported that the Justice Department is investigating Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, the chief opponent of a 2015 bill in the Florida state legislature that prohibited revenge porn, for...

Greg Nash/Pool via AP It appears that some Republican lawmakers aren’t exactly exerting themselves to support Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after the news broke that he is under investigation for allegedly sex trafficking and having inappropriate relations with a 17-year-old girl. Their reticence to speak on Gaetz’s behalf could indicate they are simply being cautious and waiting until all of the facts come out. But it seems more likely that their silence on the matter is motivated by the lawmaker...

Justice Dept. Inquiry Into Matt Gaetz Said to Be Focused on Cash Paid to Women The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed. Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, was first elected to the House in 2016 at the age of 34 and cast himself as a die-hard Trump supporter.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times April 1, 2021Updated 10:19 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz...

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz’s father, Don Gaetz, a former Florida Senate president, backed up his son’s claims of extortion Wednesday and said he wore a wire for the FBI to try to prove that crime, according to Politico.