New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees at FBI headquarters to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville,

The Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director. The Senate voted 51-49 to confirm Patel with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining a unified Democratic Senate caucus in voting against his nomination,

FBI Director Kash Patel made his first statement as director after he was sworn in Friday, with a challenge to