Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the 15 members of a reconstituted Defense Policy Board, installing former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as chair and signaling a clean break from the advisory panel's previous makeup, which Hegseth swept out more than a year ago. The m...

President Donald Trump will make his first flight Wednesday aboard the Qatar-gifted Boeing 747 now serving as Air Force One, heading to North Dakota for an event marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. A White House official confirmed the trip to AFP on Monday, putting the aircraft, ...

Three men face aggravated burglary charges after they allegedly cut through a barbed-wire fence at the Shelby County Penal Farm in Memphis, Tennessee, and tried to smuggle bags of contraband into the correctional facility in the early morning hours of a recent Tuesday. Carloss Wilkins, 31, Ladarius ...

Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones at two American allies in the Persian Gulf early Sunday morning, striking a residential building in Bahrain and forcing Kuwait's air defenses into action, a direct answer to U.S. military strikes on Iranian targets that Tehran has refused to absorb quietly. T...

A 32-year-old mother of five was stabbed three times at a busy Del Rio, Texas, intersection on a Thursday afternoon, and by nightfall, she was dead and three young women faced murder charges. Caroline "Caro" Peña was attacked near a Sonic restaurant on what a childhood friend called "one of our bus...

Twenty-nine Virginia law enforcement officials, 12 sheriffs and 17 commonwealth attorneys, have publicly declared they will not enforce the state's ban on AR-15-style rifles and magazines holding more than 15 rounds, a measure set to take effect July 1, 2026. The growing list of local officials refu...

David Vander Meer, a 49-year-old former youth pastor charged with murdering his wife nearly twenty years ago, died from what Las Vegas police called "self-sustained injuries" at the Clark County Detention Center on the same day he was scheduled to appear before a judge. The Las Vegas judge handling ...

A U.S. Marine went missing from the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage during a training exercise off the Southern California coast, triggering a massive search that spanned roughly 2,400 square miles before the Navy shifted the operation from rescue to recovery, a grim signal that officials no...

A new ransom note sent to TMZ claims to include video of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie alongside the person who allegedly abducted her from her Arizona home nearly five months ago, the latest in a string of disturbing communications that have kept her family in torment and investigators publicly silent....

Search and rescue crews from California, Virginia, and Florida are fanning out across earthquake-shattered Venezuela, racing against a closing survival window after twin quakes killed at least 1,430 people and left nearly 69,000 missing. The two earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, among the stronge...