An ICE officer shot a 28-year-old Venezuelan man during an enforcement operation in Austin, Texas, leaving him hospitalized with a bullet lodged near his spine, and igniting a political clash over transparency, use of force, and federal immigration tactics. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot once i...

A weeklong immigration enforcement operation across Southwest Florida netted 500 arrests, among them a Haitian asylum seeker charged with murder and sexual battery, an accused child molester, and a suspected cartel member. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working alongside more than five fe...

Two passengers aboard one of the world's largest cruise ships fell critically ill mid-voyage, forcing Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas to reverse course to the Bahamas and leaving thousands of travelers facing an eight-hour delay and a gutted itinerary. The 226,000-ton vessel was steaming northea...

A NORAD F-16 intercepted a general aviation aircraft over Camp David, deploying flares while President Trump was staying at the Maryland retreat Saturday. At about 7:50 a.m., the fighter met the plane over restricted airspace near Thurmont, Maryland, the New York Post reported. NORAD then escorted t...

The U.S. Army awarded Skyeton Inc. a $10.64 million Raybird drone contract, but key details about quantities, funding and work sites remain undisclosed. A Defense Department notice issued Sept. 18 named Skyeton Inc. as the recipient, the Kyiv Independent reported. The company is the American arm of ...

Fire authorities say a California trench collapse killed an excavation worker after nearly five hours of rescue work, while state inspectors seek the cause. The Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District said the trench collapsed Friday morning as a crew worked near Hickman, about 15 miles eas...

A 25-year-old man who shot a Kalamazoo Township police officer during a foot chase in 2025 will spend a minimum of 47 years behind bars, a sentence the department's chief called overdue justice for a crime that permanently altered the officer's life. Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. Lightvoet handed do...

Naugatuck Deputy Police Chief Daniel Norck was arrested Friday by police in a neighboring Connecticut town and placed on administrative leave, but neither department has said why. Thomaston police took Norck into custody on Friday, and the Naugatuck Police Department confirmed the arrest the same da...

A 48-year-old man accused of shooting a Columbus County, N.C., deputy during a failed traffic stop now faces attempted murder charges after 75 officers hunted him for eleven hours across rural southeastern North Carolina. William Robert Smith Jr. fled a traffic stop just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in t...

San Diego officers shot and killed a man who ignited a police K-9 with a flammable device during a standoff at a North Park business, leaving three officers burned and the dog hospitalized with facial injuries. The confrontation began Monday morning around 9 a.m. when San Diego police responded to r...