Boeing has identified roughly 300 microscopic cracks on each of the two 747-8 jets being converted into the next Air Force One fleet, and the repair work, combined with more than $3 billion in cost overruns, has pushed delivery nearly four years past the original deadline. The Air Force reported tha...

An internal Air Force email obtained by CBS News directed senior military public affairs officers to drop the "Operation Epic Fury" label, three months after the Pentagon now claims the operation against Iran officially concluded. The August 7 guidance, issued from War Secretary Pete Hegseth's centr...

Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News personality turned Defense Secretary, has not appeared on the network that launched his political career since October 5, 2025, a silence that began just days before Fox joined rival outlets in publicly rejecting his Pentagon press restrictions. Hegseth sat down wit...

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has positively identified a man whose body was pulled from a South Florida waterway more than four decades ago, closing a case that outlasted the original investigators who worked it. Archie Patterson Jr., born August 15, 1940, was 43 years old when his body wa...

The U.S. Army has handed Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries a combined $192 million to begin building its next-generation battlefield targeting system, a milestone that shifts the program from prototyping to full production. The contract, awarded in late August, covers procurement and inte...

A recently evicted tenant with a lengthy criminal record and a documented history of gun threats opened fire inside a downtown Minneapolis high-rise Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and wounding three police officers before taking his own life, the second deadly shooting at the same building ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked at least six additional Army officers from promotion to two-star general, extending a months-long campaign to reshape military leadership that has now touched more than 80 top brass. The blocked promotions, first reported by The Hill, mark the third known r...

A recently evicted tenant opened fire inside a downtown Minneapolis high-rise Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and wounding five others, including two police officers who charged into the building within minutes, before the gunman himself was found dead at the scene. Officers responded to a 9...

Two 16-year-olds reported missing in Juneau, Alaska, were found shot dead in a wooded area the same day they disappeared, and police have yet to say who pulled the trigger or how the deaths unfolded. Leotis Phillips and Zoey Clark vanished on the morning of August 31. By 3 p.m. that afternoon, offic...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to President Trump after months of reported friction with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, leaving the Army without a single Senate-confirmed civilian leader. The White House confirmed Driscoll's departure on Monday, with spokesperson Anna Kel...