CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner awarded licenses this week to 70 medical marijuana businesses before out-of-state criminal background checks could be done through an FBI database, as ...

Welcome back to FOIA Files! Well, you can now add the State Department to the growing number of agencies with FOIA operations ravaged by the Trump administration’s cuts across the federal government.

The FBI denied the Delaware Office of the Marijuana Commissioner's request for a service code for necessary fingerprinting for criminal background checks. Despite the state handling most other ...

Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were conducted in June. It's just the latest month with record-breaking numbers since the system was created in 1998. The FBI ...

The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump's top staffers, and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources familiar ...