Willie J. Carpenter sat for a police interview in 2013 and denied ever knowing Diane Matthews. He refused to give detectives a DNA sample. Eleven years later, investigators came back. This time, Carpenter agreed to swab. That decision set in motion the final chapter of a murder case that had gone co...

The USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George H.W. Bush moved into the Gulf of Oman on Friday as part of a broader American naval buildup that now puts more than 20 U.S. warships across the Middle East, a show of force that follows President Trump's warning he could reinstate a full naval blockade on Irani...

The Justice Department issued subpoenas to four New York Times journalists on Friday, compelling them to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan after the paper published stories detailing security shortcomings on the Qatar-gifted Air Force One. Federal agents delivered the subpoenas to the...

Five months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Catalina Foothills home near Tucson, a retired FBI agent says the bureau's own investigators cannot agree on what the evidence means, starting with whether any of the ransom notes in the case are real. Steve Moore, a former FBI agent, app...

Residents in a North Charleston, South Carolina, neighborhood called 911 repeatedly on the Fourth of July to report armed teenagers, gunfire, and what one caller described as "a full-out war", all before police officers arrived and were assaulted by a crowd of more than 500 people at a city-permitte...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Thursday that the United States has begun testing Ukrainian-made drones and is delivering encouraging results, a concrete step forward in a multibillion-dollar defense partnership that Washington has kept on ice for more than a year. The disclosure, ...

A Porterville, California, police officer shot a knife-wielding suspect once in the lower body Thursday night as the man charged toward a downtown bar packed with as many as 30 people, and the suspect kept going, entering the bar and fighting officers for several minutes before they could get him in...

Eight suspects, half of them teenagers, are in custody after San Jose police and federal agents dismantled what investigators call a gang responsible for a string of brutal beatings across the South Bay earlier this year. The charges include attempted murder. The arrests, announced Thursday by the S...

A drone slammed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter on Tuesday afternoon as crews fought a brush fire near the Encino Reservoir, forcing the aircraft to land at Van Nuys Airport with minor damage and raising fresh questions about whether the city can protect its own first responders from...

The Secret Service urged President Trump not to fly home from the NATO summit in Turkey aboard his new $400 million Qatari-gifted aircraft, forcing a last-minute swap back to the older Air Force One amid active U.S. military strikes against Iran. Trump, speaking to reporters on board the older plane...