A 56-year-old illegal immigrant from Vietnam who was convicted of attempted capital murder of a police officer and burglary walked free in Houston for more than fifteen years, shielded from deportation by a diplomatic agreement that barred the United States from sending him home. On May 5, ICE agent...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara resigned Tuesday rather than face termination for interfering with an investigation into his own behavior, deleting evidence from his city-issued phone and leaking details of the probe after being told to stay quiet, the Associated Press reported. Mayor Jacob Fr...

Taiwan deployed fighter jets, warships, and coastal missile batteries Monday after China pushed a large-scale combat patrol within striking distance of the island, the second such provocation in a single week and a sharp escalation that came just days after a Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. Taiwan's Min...

A 34-year-old man is in custody and facing first-degree murder charges after Hillsborough County detectives cracked a cold case that had gone unsolved for a decade, arresting him one day after obtaining a warrant built on fresh DNA testing and previously unknown witnesses. Marqui Newton was taken in...

Two Tampa police officers resigned after an internal investigation concluded they violated department policy by engaging in sexual activity with an emergency communications officer while on the clock, one of them allegedly in a department SUV, the other after abandoning a special assignment and swit...

Mexican authorities detained a nephew of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman during a coordinated criminal operation, seizing a massive cache of cocaine, firearms, and explosives in a separate but linked raid, Mexico's top security official announced Monday. The suspect, identified only as Isai "N" under Mexi...

President Donald Trump turned a conference call about ending the U.S.-Iran conflict into a direct challenge to Arab leaders: normalize relations with Israel, or forget about Washington brokering a peace deal. Leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt said nothing in response, according to ...

A Beeville, Texas, police officer plunged into thigh-deep floodwaters to pull a baby from a white sedan that was sliding toward a swollen creek, and his bodycam captured every second of it. Patrolman Matthew Fuentes arrived at the scene shortly before noon on Saturday to find the vehicle already bei...

Lauryn Akey, a 21-year-old University of South Florida student, sent her family a final text message saying she loved them and would be home soon. Minutes later, a 53-year-old man driving nearly three times the legal alcohol limit plowed his F-150 pickup the wrong way down Interstate 75 and killed h...

Federal agents and county police raided the Merrillville, Indiana, home of New Chicago Police Chief Earl Mayo on Friday, seizing more than 100 firearms and setting off a chain of events that ended with the small-town law enforcement leader facing four criminal charges, misconduct, obstruction of jus...