A pre-dawn shooting in Thornton, Colorado, left one person dead and another hospitalized, and the police response itself turned dangerous when a commuter train slammed into an unoccupied patrol vehicle parked at the scene. Thornton police responded around 4:53 a.m. on August 21 to reports of a vehic...

A Massachusetts police chief drew a five-day suspension without pay after he left his duty belt, holstered firearm included, sitting on a bench in the public lobby of his own station for roughly three minutes. Bourne Police Chief Brandon Esip walked into the station on June 9 at about 2:30 p.m. carr...

Andrew Haden, the 48-year-old former twice-acting U.S. attorney for Southern California, was found dead inside a downtown San Diego federal building after being reported missing, leaving colleagues, family, and the broader legal community reeling. San Diego police officers responded Wednesday to the...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll plans to leave the Pentagon around the end of 2026 after a prolonged power struggle with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a departure that would cap one of the most turbulent stretches in recent Army leadership. Driscoll has told associates he views 23 to 24 months as the ...

North Korea launched roughly a dozen short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Thursday, answering President Trump's diplomatic outreach and scaled-back military exercises not with words but with warheads. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff detected the salvo at approximately 5:00 p.m...

The FBI arrested a 35-year-old Albany woman who allegedly spent weeks surveilling the New York State Capitol, buying bomb-making materials, and plotting to kill state senators in an ISIS-inspired attack. Jessica Bowie, also known as "Aisha Saif," was taken into custody on August 19 after she left a ...

A U.S. Air Force cargo plane bound for Antarctica reversed course and returned to New Zealand after Russia notified aviation authorities of a planned missile launch that posed a potential hazard to international airspace. The C-17A Globemaster III, flying under the call sign ICE28, lifted off from C...

A 27-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of slashing his girlfriend's throat and fleeing to Central America was arrested in Honduras five months later in a coordinated operation with the FBI, a case prosecutors say underscores the lethal reality of domestic violence. Darwin David Espinal-Del Cid now s...

A 26-year-old Massachusetts woman who brought homemade firebombs and a knife to the U.S. Capitol in a stated plot to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent received a six-year prison sentence, roughly four years less than prosecutors requested. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced Riley En...

A 57-year-old man already carrying a prior murder conviction on his record now faces three new murder charges after allegedly forcing three Los Angeles men to the floor at gunpoint and shooting them inside a Hollywood apartment. Los Angeles police arrested Patrick Kevin Spurlock on the 6600 block of...