A man who allegedly strapped a bomb to his chest and barricaded himself inside a Chase Bank in downtown Bakersfield, California, held hostages for roughly twelve hours Tuesday before FBI personnel shot and killed him. All hostages were freed unharmed. The standoff began just after 1 p.m. when Bakers...

A 20-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were found dead inside a Houston apartment Monday after an hours-long standoff that drew a SWAT team, crisis negotiators, and tear gas, all of it triggered by a frantic phone call in which the man reportedly told someone he had "accidentally shot his girlfri...

Several Orlando Police officers face an internal investigation after a viral video captured women dancing on and around their golf cart while they were on duty at the Caribbean Carnival Festival, and the department says the officers should have put a stop to it. The video, which spread rapidly onlin...

A 22-year-old former Shelby, North Carolina, police officer turned himself in Monday morning to face an assault charge after Ring doorbell camera footage surfaced showing him apparently punching a woman repeatedly during an arrest. Karson Hyder surrendered at 10 a.m. and was charged with assault inf...

President Trump said Monday that Israeli troops would not advance on Beirut and that forces already moving toward the Lebanese capital had been ordered to turn back, a development he announced on Truth Social shortly after a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed at least two female and two Black male Navy officers from a promotion list, drawing immediate accusations of racial and gender targeting from critics and a sharp denial from his spokesman, who called the reporting "fake news" built on anonymous sources. The New...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka ordered a mandatory curfew around the Delaney Hall immigration detention center on Sunday after days of escalating confrontations between protesters and law enforcement, closing streets and restricting movement within a half-mile radius of the facility until further notice. T...

The U.S. military destroyed a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Saturday, killing three men aboard in a fireball captured on video and shared by U.S. Southern Command. The strike was the fourth such operation in a single week, as the Trump administration's monthslong ca...

An 18-year-old university student bled out on a Southampton street in December after police handcuffed him, the victim, not the attacker, because the man who had just stabbed him five times claimed to be the target of a racist assault. A jury at Southampton Crown Court convicted 23-year-old Vickrum ...

A 40-year-old Democrat running for Congress in Hawaii was arrested Friday after he allegedly stormed a government building in Wailuku, pulled a gun on officials, and threatened two Maui County workers, capping a week of escalating confrontations with local government that included a prior police esc...