As part of the confirmation process, the FBI conducts background checks of nominees. FBI investigations focus on "character ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of ...

A new report claims that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) background check concerning Pete Hegseth is "unremarkable.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin raised a question over why Hegseth's ex-wife was not interviewed for his background check.

Expanding federal background checks should survive the first step of this post-Heller analysis. To be sure, the federal background-check system does not appear to be a long-standing regulation ...

These checks may include some combination of an investigation into the employee's credit score, criminal background and even social media activity. The Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and ...