On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil liberties happened: 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover assumed the role of director of the then-Bureau of Investigation. Ambitious, ...

Scuffle goes public over legacy of FBI’s most famous, and infamous, director. — -- A debate is brewing inside the Beltway and beyond, pitting some current and retired FBI agents against one ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was kidnapped in 1932 and his corpse was found two months later, it was considered the crime of the century. It took nearly three years before the boy’s ...

A stained-glass window dedicated to the Christian virtues of FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover will be rechristened as a reminder of “past and current racial oppression” during a Capitol Hill worship ...

The building has been the FBI headquarters since 1975. The FBI will move to the Reagan Building. WASHINGTON - The FBI is permanently closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover building in ...

To the editor: J. Edgar Hoover is smiling down on the building named after him. With the confirmation of Kash Patel to direct the FBI, the agency can now return to the days when Hoover, its first and ...

In the early 1970s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered it pertinent biographical information that The New York Times' Tom Wicker suffered from “mental halitosis.” Since this is not, ...