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...

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...

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...

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate challenging Sen. Susan Collins in one of the most closely watched 2026 Senate races, is facing a firestorm from veterans and Republican senators after resurfaced Reddit posts show him calling the U.S. Army "full of fat, lazy trash" and mocking a soldier who w...

Fireman 3rd Class Royle Luker was seventeen years old when Japanese torpedoes tore into the USS West Virginia on the morning of December 7, 1941. He never came home. On May 30, in a small cemetery in Plainview, Arkansas, the Navy will finally lay him to rest with full military honors, more than eigh...

A five-man crew, four Chilean nationals and one Argentinian, has been arrested in connection with a brazen string of home burglaries stretching from the United States to Argentina, targeting some of the biggest names in professional sports. The suspects allegedly stole more than $3.5 million in watc...

An 18-year-old driver plowed into five Chicago police officers early Sunday morning as hundreds of teenagers swarmed a West Side street, shutting it down in the latest so-called "teen takeover", a trend that has turned American intersections into lawless spectacles while the adults who should be in ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will deploy 5,000 troops to Poland, a move that came barely a week after the Army abruptly canceled a brigade deployment to the same country, and weeks after the Pentagon ordered a comparable drawdown from Germany. Trump made the annou...

A 34,000-gallon tank of methyl methacrylate at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, is overheating and threatening to either rupture or explode, prompting evacuation orders for roughly 40,000 residents across five Orange County communities. Fire officials say they cannot secure the ...