Air Force fighter fleet falls short of Congress's 1,145-aircraft minimum with no recovery in sight until 2030
The U.S. Air Force now fields just 1,098 fighter aircraft, nearly 50 planes below the congressionally mandated floor, and a new research report warns the shortfall will only deepen before it improves. A Congressional Research Service report flagged the gap and laid out a series of hard questions for...
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Woman charged with murder after 70-year-old found dead in Alabama community pool
A 30-year-old woman sits in an Alabama jail without bond after police say she killed a 70-year-old acquaintance at a community swimming pool, and evidence at the scene pointed to a physical struggle. Hoover, Alabama police arrested Anastasia Tsefia Sudarsana on one count of murder after an elderly w...
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Florida family of four found dead after private plane crashes near Bahamas
A family's Labor Day trip to their island home in the Bahamas ended in tragedy when their small plane plunged into the ocean on the return flight to Florida, and relatives had to recover the bodies themselves. Mario Lamar, 80, his wife Lili Lamar, 79, and their grandchildren Sofia Sosa, 28, and Chri...
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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks Trump for a pardon he cannot legally grant
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington made a televised appeal to President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in her murder case, but legal experts say the request is legally impossible and likely a calculated move to pressure prosecutors. Reddington appeared ...
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Portugal detains former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone over airport shotgun
Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was detained at a Portuguese airport with a shotgun, though he denies authorities formally arrested him. Ecclestone, 95, was held at Tires Aerodrome near Lisbon after arriving by private jet from Switzerland, Daily Mail Sport reported. A search uncovered the...
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Sailor plans Navy exit after 286-day deployment amid hunger complaints
An MSN-hosted account says a sailor plans to leave the Navy after a 286-day deployment, while crewmates describe hunger, exhaustion and broken plumbing. The USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. reached Thailand after an extended stretch at sea. The Lincoln had been deployed for 286 days...
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DNA names Lydia McWhorter as final unidentified victim tied to Keith Jesperson
California investigators have identified Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter as Keith Jesperson’s final unnamed victim, closing a nearly 34-year mystery through DNA genealogy. Fox News Digital reported that Riverside County authorities announced McWhorter’s identification Thursday after a maternal relativ...
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NORAD F-16s intercept aircraft near Trump’s Bedminster golf club
NORAD F-16s intercepted two civilian aircraft near President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club after restricted airspace breaches raised fresh security concerns. NORAD said F-16 fighter jets safely escorted two general aviation aircraft from restricted airspace near Bedminster, New Jersey, Fox N...
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Republican critics join Democrats in questioning Hegseth's Pentagon leadership after Driscoll resignation
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's abrupt departure and reports that the White House reviewed replacements for Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg have drawn bipartisan criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's management of the Pentagon. Driscoll submitted his resignation Tuesday after serving a...
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Two bodies found a day apart in Carson waterway are unrelated, sheriff's department says
Investigators in Carson, California, are running two separate death investigations after a young girl's body and an unidentified man's body turned up in the same drainage channel roughly twenty hours apart, and authorities say the cases share nothing but geography. A golfer at Victoria Golf Course s...
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