FBI director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that the person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump searched the web for "How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?" one week before the rally shooting, as reported by The New York Times.

Investigators recovered the search from a laptop linked to 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, which refers to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. "That's a search that's obviously significant in terms of his state of mind," Wray said during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. "That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the B …

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The FBI used an unreleased tool from the Israeli mobile forensics company Cellebrite to unlock the Trump rally shooter's phone - and opened it in less than an hour, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post.

Investigators at the FBI's Pittsburgh field office first tried to open Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone with a Cellebrite tool but weren't able to break into it. The phone was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, on Sunday, where agents called Cellebrite's federal team, people familiar with the investigation told Bloomberg. Cellebrite sent the FBI an unreleased tool that's still in development, which was able to unlo …

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Just two days after the attempted assassination at former President Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI announced it "gained access" to the shooter's phone. The bureau has not disclosed how it broke into the phone - or what has been found on it - but the speed with which the agency did so is significant, and security experts say it points to the increased efficacy of phone hacking tools.

In a call with reporters on Sunday, the bureau said field agents in Pennsylvania had tried and failed to break into Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone. The device was then sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.

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The person who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a rally on Saturday had a Discord account - though it was rarely used - according to the company.

"Discord removed the account according to our off-platform behavior policy and we are assisting law enforcement in their investigation," Clint Smith, chief legal officer of Discord, said in an emailed statement. "The suspect's account was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence, or discuss his political views, but with the investigation ongoing, we are not able to share any add …

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Investigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooting is being probed as an assassination attempt.

The FBI said in a statement that it had obtained the shooter's phone "for examination." Officials told reporters in a conference call on Sunday, as reported by The New York Times, that agents in Pennsylvania were unable to break into the phone. It's been shipped to the FBI's lab in Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI hopes to get past the phone's password protection, the Times reported.

Investigators are still looking for insight into the motives …

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