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The Florida Republican senator is leading a bipartisan effort in the Senate to crack down on financial scams targeting older Americans with a bill aimed at equipping local and state law enforcement with more advanced tools and resources to track down scammers.

The FBI’s Miami office and multiple South Florida law enforcement agencies announced Wednesday they arrested 65 people and seized 21 firearms as part of an investigation to round up the region’s most dangerous suspected criminals.

The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office and the FBI said they prevented a mass shooting planned by a Loxahatchee man, who possessed 18 firearms, 12,000 rounds of ammunition, two-way radios and law enforcement officer uniforms.

The Justice Department says Manuel Rocha, a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, was charged with serving as a covert agent for Cuba’s intelligence services since at least 1981. The FBI arrested him at his home in Miami.

The FBI Jacksonville and other agencies are encouraging the public to report hate crimes, which are increasing in Florida and nationwide.

The Associated Press has learned that a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation and is accused of secretly serving as an agent of the Cuban government.

With Jewish and Muslim groups reporting an increase of hateful rhetoric in the wake of the war in the Middle East, top federal law enforcement officials in South Florida said they are on alert for possible hate crimes and potential threats.

FBI Director Christopher Wray referred a legislator to the U.S attorney’s office in Delaware when asked in a House Judiciary Committee hearing whether President Joe Biden had received payments from Ukraine.

Witness testimony on the third day of former Tallahassee Mayor and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum's trial focused on the first count against him: lying to the FBI.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who was supposed to stand trial on charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as well as another riot defendant who has also gone missing.

The alert was posted after officials discovered an online threat directed broadly at synagogues in New Jersey, a law enforcement official said.

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