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During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motive for the bombs placed near the DNC and RNC headquarters, people briefed on the matter said. Cole spent hours with FBI investigators and made multiple statements, the sources said. Dan Bongino, deputy FBI director, told Fox News on Thursday that the FBI had interviewed the suspect at length, but didn’t elaborate. The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment for this story.

The two Nigerian brothers who claim to have helped Jussie Smollett perpetrate a fake hate crime earlier this year said Smollett “directed every aspect of the attack” in a defamation suit filed Tuesday against the Empire actor’s attorneys. Smollett was indicted by a grand jury on 16 charges related to the alleged hoax after the brothers, who worked with him on Empire, told police he hired them to throw a chemical substance on him and place a noose around his neck. Kim Foxx, Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office subsequently dropped all the charges without requiring that Smollett admit guilt in...