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News Wrap: Pro-Iranian group claims it hacked Kash Patel's email account

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🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, a pro-Iranian and pro-Palestinian hacking group claims it breached an email account belonging to FBI Director Kash Patel, lawyers representing Fulton County asked a federal court to order the FBI to return 2020 election ballots and records seized in a January raid and stocks closed out their worst week since the Iran war began, the fifth straight losing week. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines, a pro-Iranian and pro-Palestinian hacking group claims it breached an email account belonging to FBI director Cash Patel.

0:10.0

The group said they accessed Patel's personal email and published what appeared to be photographs of them, as well as work and travel documents.

0:18.0

Most of them are more than a decade old. Within hours,

0:21.9

the FBI said it had taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks and that no

0:27.7

government information was involved. It's not clear when the hack might have occurred.

0:33.4

Lawyers representing Fulton County, Georgia asked a federal court today to order the FBI to return 20-20 election ballots and other records seized in a late January raid.

0:44.6

FBI agents serving a criminal warrant took more than 650 boxes of 2020 documents from a warehouse near Atlanta.

0:53.0

Today, Justice Department lawyers said they were cooperative

0:55.5

and had provided the county with digital copies of everything taken. Fulton County's lawyer,

1:00.7

Abby Lowell, argued that the FBI is pursuing crimes for which the statute of limitations

1:05.4

has expired. Fulton County has been at the center of President Trump's false claims that the 2020

1:11.1

election was stolen. The bipartisan House Ethics Committee said today that Florida Democratic

1:17.0

Representative Sheila Scherfellis McCormick violated more than two dozen House rules and federal

1:23.1

campaign finance laws. As a result, there could be a vote in the House to expel her from Congress.

1:29.0

Sherfulness McCormick also faces criminal charges for misusing millions of dollars of taxpayer money.

1:34.7

If convicted, she could face up to 53 years in prison. The Ethics Committee will recommend a punishment

1:40.4

in the coming weeks. Sherfulness McCormick has denied any wrongdoing, and after today's decision, she said,

1:46.6

I look forward to proving my innocence.

1:50.0

Vice President J.D. Vance presided over the first meeting of the Trump administration's

1:54.7

new anti-fraud task force today. Vance and Vice Chair Andrew Ferguson, who's head of the Federal

2:00.6

Trade Commission, said the task force would focus on prosecuting and preventing fraud with a whole government approach.

2:08.2

What we're going to actually do is force the bureaucracy to take this seriously and work together as political principles to make sure that we stop allowing fraudsters to steal the American

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