A North Carolina jury convicted Jeanie Kassandra Ditty of first-degree murder in the death of her toddler daughter Macy Grace, and the case took a disturbing turn when it emerged Ditty had commissioned staged photos depicting herself alongside the child she killed. Ditty, 33, received a life sentenc...

The U.S. Navy has been internally discussing whether to rename the future USS Doris Miller, the first aircraft carrier honoring a Black American, with President Trump's name reportedly among those under consideration. For months, Navy officials have increasingly referred to the Gerald R. Ford-class ...

Two Phoenix police officers now face multiple felony charges, including aggravated assault and kidnapping, after court documents revealed they admitted to a violent, off-the-books traffic stop in which they allegedly beat a driver, repeatedly Tased two people, and threatened to shoot, all without ev...

A routine DNA submission to a genealogy site led a California man to a shattering discovery about his own parentage, and his filmmaker daughter is now telling the story on Hulu, even as it has fractured their relationship. Daniel Arguelles had long suspected the man who raised him was not his biolog...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is preparing to leave the Pentagon around the end of 2026, capping a months-long turf war with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that has rattled senior military leadership. Driscoll, a former venture capitalist and close ally of Vice President Vance, has told associates tha...

A 15-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 17-year-old was shot and killed during a high school football season opener in Bakersfield, California, a shooting police say was gang-related and not random. Gunfire erupted shortly after 8 p.m. Friday at Independence High School's foot...

A 63-year-old Brooklyn grandmother who disappeared during a Las Vegas visit was found dead in a drainage ditch near Harry Reid International Airport, and her family still has no official cause of death. Alisa Goods left a friend's apartment on the afternoon of August 8 to catch a bus to a nearby CVS...

Federal agents arrested a 35-year-old Albany woman on charges she plotted to bomb the New York State Capitol for ISIS, a case built over weeks by three undercover FBI operatives who posed as terrorist allies and handed her a disabled explosive device. Jessica Bowie stepped out of a meeting on August...

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 ...

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...