William Webster, a longtime U.S. public servant who served as the head of both the FBI and the CIA in a career spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s, has died. He was 101.The FBI confirmed his death in a statement Friday.

His family announced his death in a statement that called him an “extraordinary man” who “spent a lifetime fighting to protect his country and its precious rule of law.”

He was credited with restoring trust to the two sullied agencies after the domestic-spying and Iran-contra scandals of the 1970s and ‘80s.

CNN’s Victor Blackwell speaks with Texas Democratic State Rep. Vince Perez, who has left Texas for Illinois, about state House Speaker Dustin Burrows signing civil arrest warrants for the absent Democrats.

House Democrats are probing the FBI's efforts to help locate a group of Democratic state legislators from Texas who fled the state in a bid to stop Republicans from redrawing Texas' congressional maps.

The ranking Democratic members of two key House committees have written a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to express “great concern about the abuse of federal public safety resources” in response to reports that the FBI is helping Texas law enforcement track down Democrats who fled Texas to