The Alameda County District Attorney's office charged San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett with misdemeanor hit-and-run after she allegedly sideswiped a family's Jeep on Interstate 580 while driving an unmarked police vehicle, then kept going. Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickso...

Pennsylvania State Police arrested a Lebanon, Pa., man this week after he allegedly posted violent threats against 20 elected Democrats on the social media platform X, including a list of targets and references to a planned shooting, authorities said. Adam G. Berryhill, 42, faces charges of making t...

More than a dozen rounds rang out inside the Philippine Senate on Wednesday night as police and marines pushed into the legislative complex to arrest a sitting senator wanted by the International Criminal Court, a dramatic standoff that has thrown the country's political order into open crisis. No i...

A Republican supervisor's bid to oust Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos collapsed Tuesday night when no one on the Board of Supervisors seconded his motion, but the board did not let the embattled sheriff walk away clean. In a 4-0 vote, with the Republican abstaining, supervisors referred perjury alle...

The 50-foot yacht at the center of Lynette Hooker's disappearance near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas has been seized by the U.S. Coast Guard and is now sitting in Fort Pierce, Florida, wrapped in crime scene tape as federal investigators comb through it for evidence. The seizure of the vessel, named Soul...

A Pima County official says Sheriff Chris Nanos dressed her down after her office forwarded information about the Nancy Guthrie disappearance to the FBI, a claim that deepens questions about whether the sheriff's department has resisted federal involvement in one of Arizona's most closely watched mi...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that the Trump administration already possesses the constitutional authority to restart military operations against Iran, no vote from Congress required. The assertion came during a hearing on the War Department's $1....

FBI Director Kash Patel agreed Tuesday to take a formal alcohol screening test, on one condition. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) would have to sit for the same exam, right beside him. "Let's go," Patel told the senator during a contentious Senate hearing. "Side by side." The exchange, which unfolded ...

Days after President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran in early April, Tehran quietly moved multiple aircraft onto a Pakistani air force base, even as Islamabad was positioning itself as an honest broker between Washington and the Islamic Republic, CBS News reported, citing U.S. officials. The a...

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from Poland and Moldova had been released from detention in Belarus and Russia, crediting American diplomatic pressure and thanking Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for his cooperation in a deal that freed a jailed Polish journalis...