A 63-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man were found shot to death outside their Oakland Hills home above UC Berkeley Friday morning, and police say the circumstances remain unknown. Officers responded after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots near the Berkeley-Oakland border. A firearm was found n...

Newly released bodycam footage captures officers arresting Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in Manhattan, complete with the murder weapon still in his bag. The recordings, unsealed Friday by a Manhattan judge, show the prec...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him, a faith-first move critics contend elevates Christianity in military policy. Hegseth made the announcement in a Wednesday speech to military chaplains at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Vir...

Boeing has won a more than $20 billion Navy contract to develop the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter, officials call it vital for carrier air power and national security. The Department of War and the U.S. Navy awarded Boeing the production contract for the F/A-XX on September 29, 2026, moving the ne...

Chester Weger, convicted in the 1960 Starved Rock murders and dead since June, heads to a rare posthumous pardon hearing as victims' families insist he was guilty. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has set an October 6 hearing on a posthumous pardon for Chester Weger, the former lodge dishwasher kn...

Texas DPS and the FBI arrested a Converse man within hours of a tip about a planned attack on the state Capitol in Austin, and officials say no ongoing threat remains. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the FBI moved fast after receiving information about a credible threat to attack the ...

An elderly California couple faces murder charges after the fatal shooting of their son-in-law, a New York Times Games executive locked in a bitter custody battle with their daughter. True Crime News reported that Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot at a park in the Dublin, California area on Se...

The U.S. Navy brought in 45,112 new sailors for fiscal 2026, beating its 45,000 goal months early and locking in a third straight year of hitting accession targets. Military Times reported the sea service cleared its initial 45,000-sailor target in July, three months ahead of schedule, then finished...

Eight Navy sailors died by suicide at a Tinker Air Force Base unit in one year, pushing leaders to add chaplains and counselors as grieving families demand real reform. Thatcher Rupert was 20 years old when he sought emergency mental health care at the 72nd Medical Group clinic near Tinker Air Force...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth halted civilian tenure hires at military academies, arguing academic norms dilute the warfighting mission and foster faculty complacency. On Tuesday, Hegseth directed departments to freeze appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at the U.S. military service...