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Bondi, Patel tap Missouri AG as additional FBI co-deputy director alongside Bongino

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EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau, Fox News Digital has learned.
Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Fox News Digital has learned.
«I am thrilled to welcome Andrew Bailey as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI,» Bondi told Fox News Digital. «He has served as a distinguished state attorney general and is a decorated war veteran, bringing expertise and dedication to service. His leadership and commitment to country will be a tremendous asset as we work together to advance President Trump’s mission.»
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«The FBI, as the leading investigative body of the federal government under the Department of Justice, will always bring the greatest talent this country has to offer in order to accomplish the goals set forth when an overwhelming majority of American people elected President Donald J. Trump again,» Patel told Fox News Digital, adding that Bailey will be an «integral part of this important mission» and said he looks forward to «the continued fight to save America together.»
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as a co-deputy director of the FBI, alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Bailey, as Missouri’s attorney general, launched an anti-human trafficking task force and addressed more than 1,100 reported incidents in Missouri. He also cleared the backlog of Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) kits to improve prosecution of sexual assault cases.
Bailey’s office also defended the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in civil litigation and has consistently advocated for law enforcement. Bailey was endorsed by the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police.
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Bailey’s office also reported a 133% increase in trial court-level criminal prosecutions.
Bailey also has held public officials accountable during his time as attorney general. He demanded the resignation of a sheriff for financial mismanagement and misconduct, and, separately, announced a grand jury indictment against a St. Louis county executive for stealing and election law violations.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference at the DEA headquarters on July 15, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
«I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to serve as the Co-Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,» Bailey told Fox News Digital. «I extend my deepest gratitude to President Trump, U.S. Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel for the privilege to join in their stated mission to Make America Safe Again.»
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A senior administration official told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump «wants to see bad guys prosecuted, illegals deported, and corrupt politicians held accountable.»
«We need all hands on deck to accomplish all of these important goals,» the official said. «Andrew Bailey will serve as another set of credible, experienced hands to help Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel carry out the President’s mission.»

FBI Director Kash Patel with Attorney General Pam Bondi are bringing on Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as an additional deputy director of the bureau. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The FBI, under Patel’s leadership, already has seen 19,000 arrests nationwide — that’s double the arrests made in all of 2024.
Of those, 1,600 individuals have been arrested for violent crimes against children — including 270 arrests for human traffickers, according to the FBI. One thousand have been arrested from investigations of foreign terrorist organizations, and three of the «Top 10 Most Wanted» have been arrested in 2025.
Patel’s FBI has rescued 4,000 child victims — a 33% increase from 2025; seized 1,500 kilos of fentanyl; and seized 6,300 kilos of methamphetamines.
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A senior official told Fox News Digital that the murder rate is currently on track to be the lowest ever recorded in history.

Dan Bongino getting sworn in to serve as the deputy director of the FBI under Director Kash Patel. (@FBIDDBongino on X)
«President Trump wants to see America quickly become the safest country in the world, and he has put together the best law and order focused team in the business to accomplish that goal,» White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital.
The addition of Bailey comes amid the expanding nature of Trump’s law and order agenda. As for the federal takeover of Washington, D.C., Bondi is in charge, and the FBI is playing a large role.
Bondi, on Friday, announced there have been nearly 200 arrests «and counting» in the nation’s capital, including those of murder suspects and illegal gun offenders, since the Trump administration federalized the city to tackle crime.
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Among those arrested were two homicide suspects, 17 suspected drug traffickers, 39 suspected illegal gun offenders and two sexual predators, according to Bondi.
Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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Mullin’s confirmation survives key test vote as DHS remains shutdown

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., survived a key test vote on Sunday on his way to becoming the next Homeland Security chief.
Mullin, who was tapped by President Donald Trump to be the next Department of Homeland Security secretary, still has one more vote to go, and likely won’t be confirmed until Monday evening.
Should he survive the final confirmation vote on Monday, he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who Trump fired following explosive hearings on the Hill and after the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during immigration operations in Minnesota.
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin speaks to reporters on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
Sunday’s test vote, which was largely party-line save for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who was the key vote to move his colleague out of committee earlier in the week, comes after his explosive confirmation hearing earlier in the week.
Mullin was grilled by both Democrats and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who Mullin once called a «snake» and charged that his 2017 assault was «justified.» During the hearing, Mullin didn’t back down from his prior remarks.
«I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be perfect,» Mullin said. «I make mistakes just like anybody else. But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from them and you can move ahead. And I’ll make that commitment to you.»
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Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
If successful on Monday, Mullin will take the reins of an agency that is currently shut down. Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have blocked DHS funding five times in their quest to get stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Mullin appeared amicable to making changes at the agency during his hearing.
Congressional Democrats have demanded, among other things, that ICE agents get judicial warrants to enter a home or business in the field rather than administrative warrants. And when asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., whether he would commit to requiring judicial warrants for ICE agents to search homes and businesses, Mullin appeared to give ground to the demand.
«Judicial warrants will be used to go into houses, into place of businesses, unless we’re pursuing someone that enters in that place,» Mullin said. «I have not mixed words with that, and I haven’t changed my opinion about that.»
Meanwhile, what was a shutdown stalemate thawed over earlier this week, when Senate Democrats made a counter offer of DHS demands to the White House after over two weeks of radio silence.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
That spurred back-to-back meetings on the Hill, with Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Katie Britt, R-Ala., along with border czar Tom Homan, sitting down with a cohort of Senate Democrats. A third meeting was slated for Saturday, but was canceled at the last minute.
The shutdown is currently on its way to becoming the longest in history, unless either side can lock in a deal to fund the agency. Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS has so far not swayed Senate Democrats, either, despite their demands the Noem be booted.
Whether both sides meet again over the weekend remains in the air.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of believing that the shutdown «politically good for them.»
«It’s not politically good for anybody to have literally tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people out of work and important functions of our government not being carried out on a daily basis and functions that are important to our homeland security and our national security,» Thune said.
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La pintura que nadie esperaba: así fue el increíble redescubrimiento de John Constable en el corazón de Texas

Un nuevo capítulo en la historia del arte británico surgió en el este de Texas, donde una obra atribuida a John Constable —referente del paisaje romántico inglés— fue identificada como un hallazgo insospechado con consecuencias para la comprensión de su proceso creativo.
La pintura, un estudio al óleo de gran escala relacionado con The Cornfield (1826), será la pieza principal en la subasta de arte europeo de la casa Heritage en Dallas este 5 de junio, tras un proceso de atribución que desafió lo sabido sobre el autor y reunió a especialistas ante un enigma de procedencia aún sin resolver.
Una característica distintiva de este hallazgo, nunca registrada en versiones previas de la misma escena, es su tamaño: el estudio mide 140 por 122 centímetros, convirtiéndose en el mayor de los bocetos conocidos para The Cornfield.
Según declaró Marianne Berardi, codirectora de arte europeo en Heritage Auction al medio ARTnews, la obra permaneció décadas en la colección de la Jefferson Historical Society and Museum tras ser donada en los años 1960 por la neoyorquina Newhouse Galleries, con el objetivo de fortalecer esa institución cultural. Solamente en 2017, durante una visita de revisión de patrimonio que gestionó Heritage, surgió la sospecha de que se trataba de una obra auténtica, no una copia más entre las 85 registradas, basadas en la laguna de Fen, en Suffolk.

El estudio, restaurado cuidadosamente e investigado a fondo entre 2023 y 2024, fue sometido a múltiples análisis técnicos —desde pruebas de limpieza hasta reflectografía infrarroja y análisis de pigmentos—. Todos los exámenes confirmaron “consistencia total con los materiales y métodos de trabajo de Constable”, lo que contradijo el consenso anterior entre expertos y abrió nuevas incógnitas sobre la evolución de la célebre pintura terminada, la primera del artista admitida en la National Gallery de Londres en 1837.
La autentificación introdujo elementos inéditos en el relato historiográfico de John Constable. De acuerdo con la restauradora Sarah Cove, versiones previas sostenían que Constable pasaba directamente de pequeños bocetos a la obra final. “Desde el redescubrimiento del boceto a tamaño real, sabemos que eso es incorrecto”, afirmó Cove, quien determinó que el autor ejecutó la composición en una única sesión y, en una segunda etapa, la retocó siguiendo una lógica de revisión más madura, evidenciando un proceso analítico visible y documentable sobre la propia superficie.
Las investigaciones de Anne Lyles, historiadora del arte y experta en Constable, apuntaron a una fecha de ejecución en torno a 1820, basada en el imprimado de la tela. Cove sumó que la intervención principal podría situarse poco después de 1825, en un contexto de experimentaciones simultáneas con la composición The Leaping Horse. “El manejo es tan parecido que sugiere que pudo ocurrir a inicios de 1826, en paralelo al trabajo sobre el boceto a tamaño real para The Cornfield”, sostuvo Cove.

La recurrencia con la que resurgen obras desconocidas de Constable se explica por la extraordinaria cantidad que produjo a lo largo de su carrera, motivado en parte por lo que el mismo artista reconocía como una memoria visual limitada. Los estudios, entonces, se convirtieron en sus equivalentes a la fotografía: modelos de referencia concebidos con una libertad y rapidez que anticipaban la estética impresionista décadas antes de su formulación. Estos trabajos permanecieron, en buena medida, fuera del radar del público hasta la subasta del estudio Foster and Co., un año después de la muerte del pintor en 1837.
A partir de 1816 y luego de su matrimonio, Constable amplió el formato de sus composiciones para hacerlas más atractivas comercialmente y para optimizar el tiempo de ejecución. La obra ahora identificada permite reconstruir cómo la exploración en gran escala fue un paso intermedio crucial entre los bocetos reducidos y el lienzo definitivo, integrando casi todos los elementos presentes en la versión final exhibida en la National Gallery, salvo algunos detalles menores.
La procedencia del estudio aún plantea dudas. Existen registros de ventas históricas que mencionan una “estudio de la naturaleza para The Corn Field, para el cuadro de la National Gallery”. Para Sarah Cove, la pintura recién estudiada desplaza como candidata legítima a la versión hasta ahora conservada en los Newfields de Indianápolis. Anne Lyles, en cambio, mantiene reservas sobre la atribución.
La obra será expuesta antes de la subasta en el espacio londinense de Heritage Auctions entre el 27 de marzo y el 2 de abril. Este recorrido internacional marca un nuevo ciclo para una pieza que permaneció más de medio siglo en relativo anonimato y que, ahora, redefine el conocimiento sobre las estrategias creativas de un pilar del romanticismo inglés.
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