Investigators have junked a fresh ransom tip in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance as the probe hits eight months, and a former FBI abduction specialist says every lead still has to be chased hard. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the PCSD/FBI Guthrie Task Force reviewed a new possible ransom messa...

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...

American and British forces sank a retired U.S. warship with missiles and a torpedo in a live-fire drill off Scotland, testing real ship-killing weapons and alliance combat readiness under open-ocean conditions. Last Monday the 138-metre USS Klakring went to the bottom after several direct hits in t...

Arizona investigators are reviewing a new possible ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case nearly eight months after the 84-year-old vanished, still with no arrests and credibility under review. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said a joint police and FBI task force was recently made aware of th...

Two Navy aviators ejected from a Growler jet after the arresting gear failed on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, leaving eight service members injured off Virginia. Pilots from Electronic Attack Squadron 130 were attempting to land an E/A-18G Growler on the Nimitz-class carrier at 6:18 p.m. Monday when...

An Idaho CEO was arrested for allegedly helping Russians hide ownership of a firm whose software reached the Secret Service, prosecutors say the cover-up followed Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Lee Reiber, 55, was taken into custody in Idaho on Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud a...

A makeshift boat carrying an estimated 60 people capsized west of Puerto Rico after a machete fight, leaving two dead and survivors adrift more than 12 hours before rescue crews arrived. U.S. Coast Guard crews pulled at least 40 people from open water several miles off a tiny uninhabited island west...

Three separate Navy and Marine Corps aircraft suffered in-flight engine fires this summer, forcing emergency landings and racking up millions in damage while crews walked away unhurt and officials stayed quiet. U.S. naval aviation logged three Class A mishaps in roughly two months after engines caug...

A Boston-bound Delta Air Lines jet packed with nearly 300 people diverted to Portugal after smoke filled the cabin, leaving multiple travelers hospitalized and travel plans in ruins. A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330 flying from Barcelona, Spain, to Boston was forced down in Porto, Portugal, on Sunday a...

Jackson police now say Tasia Fortune was already dead when her body was hung from a tree in a staged hanging tied to a drug dispute, with two men charged and a third still wanted. New details from a court hearing show investigators no longer treat the hanging as the cause of death. A detective [&hel...