A photograph of President Trump holding a poster reading "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" aboard Air Force One has landed in a federal judge's inbox, filed as evidence by a Democratic congresswoman fighting to block the building's closure. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and Kennedy Center trustee, f...

Search teams recovered the body of 26-year-old hiker Neil Gehring on a remote Washington mountainside nearly two weeks after he vanished on a backcountry trek, a breakthrough made possible only after investigators analyzed cellphone location data. Gehring left the Madison Falls Trailhead in Olympic ...

President Trump announced that the United States and Poland are making "major progress" toward establishing a permanent U.S. Army base on Polish soil, a move that would mark a historic expansion of America's military footprint in Eastern Europe. Trump made the announcement Thursday in a post on Trut...

A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed and burst into flames in northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon during a routine training exercise, forcing residents within a mile of the wreckage to evacuate, though the pilot ejected safely and was reported awake and alert at a local hospital. The fighter ...

A 33-year-old suspected serial killer in Brazil reportedly confessed to 80 murders spanning two decades after police caught him fleeing a checkpoint disguised as a woman, and investigators say the staggering number may be close to accurate. Jorlan Alves da Silva was carrying a two-year-old boy who i...

The sole holdout juror who forced a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy triple homicide case says he is being targeted for his conservative politics, but court records reveal a documented history of domestic violence allegations and an active restraining order. Michael P. Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater, M...

Mexico's government is deploying more than 1,800 federal troops to the cartel-ravaged state of Sinaloa after two years of factional warfare that has killed at least 3,100 people and left 5,000 more missing, and the real toll is likely far higher. Omar García Harfuch, Mexico's top security official,...

A suspect who fled into a San Diego adult bookstore used a flammable liquid and open flame to burn a police dog and three officers before an officer shot and killed him, the latest in a string of volatile, life-threatening confrontations facing law enforcement. San Diego police responded Wednesday m...

A recently translated Chinese military journal article shows that senior People's Liberation Army Navy officers view small, mobile U.S. Marine teams scattered across Pacific islands as a serious problem, and they want Beijing to respond with offensive countermeasures. Three senior captains in China'...

Senior Air Force officers used a major defense conference to defend the F-35 Lightning II's combat record during two recent Middle East operations, just months after a government watchdog found only one in four jets across the fleet was fully mission-capable. Maj. Gen. Brian Laidlaw and Col. Charles...