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'...

Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie broke down on live television Tuesday after actress Allison Janney used her Emmy Awards moment to remember Guthrie's missing 84-year-old mother, renewing a public plea in a case with no arrests and no suspects. Co-host Willie Geist played the clip without warning. ...

A St. Augustine mother standing beside her county sheriff and pleading for help finding her missing 16-year-old son received the news every parent prays for, mid-sentence, on camera, from someone off-screen who simply said, "They found him." Olga Adcock had spent two days not knowing whether her son...

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...

President Trump urged Massachusetts prosecutors and Lindsay Clancy's defense team to negotiate a deal rather than retry the mother who strangled her three children, while correctly noting he has no power to pardon her on state charges. Trump told reporters Monday that the Clancy case was "a very sad...

Authorities in Houma, Louisiana, took a 47-year-old man into custody after a stabbing spree killed four people and critically wounded a child, and the suspect's record shows he walked free from two prior stabbing cases, including a fatal one. Deputies with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office resp...