Six people, five men and one woman, died inside a sealed train boxcar that traveled from Long Beach, California, through the scorching Texas heat before a railroad worker discovered their bodies in a Laredo rail yard last Sunday. Investigators now believe the victims boarded the car during a stop in...

A 22-year-old New Braunfels, Texas, woman now faces federal charges after a grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment accusing her of trying to burn down the Comal County Republican Party Headquarters in January, and leaving a profanity-laced note at the scene that targeted President Trump an...

American and Nigerian forces killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, described by U.S. officials as the Islamic State's second-in-command worldwide, in a precision strike Friday in northeastern Nigeria's Lake Chad Basin, U.S. Africa Command confirmed. AFRICOM Gen. Dagvin Anderson said the mission also eliminate...

One hundred days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her bedroom in an upscale Tucson suburb, the Pima County Sheriff's Department says it has nothing new to share, and outside volunteer organizations willing to search for her say they cannot even get a return call. Guthrie disappeared in ...

At least fifteen shots rang out inside the Philippine Senate on Wednesday as law enforcement agents and marines moved to arrest Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa on an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity. Dela Rosa escaped the building amid the chaos, and by ...

An 18-year-old university student bled to death in the street, handcuffed by the officers who were supposed to help him, after the man accused of stabbing him told police he was the real victim of a racist attack, a British court heard Thursday. Henry Nowak, an Anglo-Polish accountancy and finance u...

An Oklahoma judge on Thursday ordered Richard Glossip released on $500,000 bond while he awaits retrial for a 1997 killing, ending what may be one of the longest stretches of wrongful incarceration in modern American death-penalty history, if his defense team's claims hold up before a jury. Judge Na...

East Lansing police released body camera video Friday showing the final seconds of 21-year-old Michigan State senior Isaiah Kirby's life, footage that captured him running toward officers in the middle of the road, apparently brandishing a knife, before four officers opened fire in three separate vo...

The House Oversight Committee is demanding records from four companies it says have built profitable businesses helping foreign nationals exploit U.S. visitor visas to give birth on American soil, a practice the State Department declared improper five years ago and that President Trump moved to outl...

The FBI is offering $200,000 for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Monica Elfriede Witt, a former Air Force counterintelligence specialist who allegedly defected to Iran more than a decade ago and handed classified national defense secrets to the regime in Tehran. Witt, now 47, r...