Capitol Police arrested an active-duty Air Force major on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after he refused orders to stop demonstrating against President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, raising immediate questions about military discipline, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and wha...

Javier Lorenzano Nunez spent close to a year locked up, first in a Mexican prison, then in Maricopa County Jail, for a 1998 Phoenix murder he says he did not commit. The arrest hinged on a facial recognition hit. The case fell apart after DNA and fingerprint evidence excluded him. Now he is suing th...

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from enforcing the Pentagon's escort policy for credentialed reporters, the latest in a string of courtroom setbacks for the Department of Defense's effort to tighten control over media access at the build...

A Ridgewood, New Jersey, police officer pulled over former NFL reporter Dianna Russini on a Sunday morning in January for using her cell phone behind the wheel. She walked away without a ticket. Months later, bodycam footage tells a different story than the one Russini told publicly, and the local p...

A U.S. Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea early Wednesday, and one of the four crew members aboard remains missing as search and rescue operations continue. Three crew members were recovered and returned to the carr...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced the arrest of 21 people in a sweeping Medicaid fraud enforcement operation, targeting caregivers, business owners, and service workers accused of stealing from a program meant to help the state's most vulnerable residents. The charges range from Medic...

A 21-year-old U.S. Marine who disappeared from the USS Anchorage during a training exercise off the coast of Southern California has been declared dead. The I Marine Expeditionary Force announced on June 27 that Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco was lost at sea, ending a search that spanned days and ...

A Japanese submarine put a torpedo into the hull of a decommissioned U.S. Navy warship on June 27, sending the former USS Juneau to the bottom of the Philippine Sea more than 200 nautical miles off the coast of Guam. The deliberate sinking capped a coordinated, multi-domain strike during Valiant Shi...

An exterminator called to investigate a foul odor at a Queens public school opened an ash dump, found a shoe, and then felt a human foot. What followed was a 911 call, a police response, and a grim discovery that has left an entire school community shaken: a rotting corpse wedged inside the chimney ...

Five months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the volunteer organization that deploys K-9 units and drones to disaster zones across the country says Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos refused its help, and never explained why. Brian Trascher, vice president of the United Ca...