Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation that will force colonels and Navy captains to prove they can fight and win under simulated combat pressure before earning a star. Hegseth rolled out the program Tuesday in a video posted to social media, declaring that the De...

A federal appeals court ruled that U.S. Capitol Police restrictions barring most demonstrations on the Capitol's eastern steps violate the First Amendment, a decision that vindicates a minister arrested five years ago for protesting on the very ground the government tried to close off. The D.C. Circ...

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed near a NATO base in western Germany on Tuesday during a routine training exercise, the second American fighter jet lost in under a week. The pilot ejected before impact and sustained what the Air Force described as minor injuries, Fox News reported. He i...

Actress Hayden Panettiere, known for her roles in "Heroes" and "Nashville," died at 36 from an accidental overdose involving fentanyl and multiple other drugs, just weeks after completing another stint in rehab. The Greenville County Coroner's Office ruled that Panettiere died on August 16, 2026, fr...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard arrested 22 illegal immigrants, including 13 Chinese nationals, after intercepting a small smuggling vessel near Key Largo, Florida, in what officials called an "extremely dangerous" maritime crossing. A CBP enforcement aircraft first spotted th...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has created and installed himself as chairman of a new Pentagon advisory board focused on homeland defense, the first of its kind at the Defense Department, after dismissing the members of every existing advisory committee last year. The Homeland Defense Board, announc...

An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut a fiber-optic cable in New Jersey on Monday, knocking out communications at a key FAA facility and stranding thousands of passengers across the Northeast for up to seven hours. United Airlines canceled every domestic flight out of Newark Liberty Internati...

An active-duty Air Force officer who called for President Trump's removal on the steps of the U.S. Capitol is now asking a military hearing officer to send his case to a lower-level tribunal, a request his own defense team built around a comparison the Pentagon may not welcome. Maj. Jason Watson fac...

A weeklong immigration enforcement operation across Southwest Florida netted 500 arrests, among them a Haitian asylum seeker charged with murder and sexual battery, an accused child molester, and a suspected cartel member. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working alongside more than five fe...

Dayton police and the FBI arrested a man on murder charges in the 2003 killing of Arlene Hall after a DNA match linked him to evidence recovered from the victim's clothing, closing a case that sat cold for more than two decades. Jesse James Lockley Jr. now sits in the Montgomery County Jail after de...