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...

An ICE officer shot a 28-year-old Venezuelan man during an enforcement operation in Austin, Texas, leaving him hospitalized with a bullet lodged near his spine, and igniting a political clash over transparency, use of force, and federal immigration tactics. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot once i...

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...

Patrick Clancy, the father of three children killed inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, sat down with CBS News' "60 Minutes" after his ex-wife's triple-murder trial ended in a mistrial, sharing gut-level details about his loss, his remarriage, and the online mob that followed....

Two passengers aboard one of the world's largest cruise ships fell critically ill mid-voyage, forcing Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas to reverse course to the Bahamas and leaving thousands of travelers facing an eight-hour delay and a gutted itinerary. The 226,000-ton vessel was steaming northea...

Fire authorities say a California trench collapse killed an excavation worker after nearly five hours of rescue work, while state inspectors seek the cause. The Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District said the trench collapsed Friday morning as a crew worked near Hickman, about 15 miles eas...