FBI posts $200,000 bounty for former Air Force intelligence agent who allegedly defected to Iran
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...
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House Oversight Committee launches probe into birth tourism companies accused of visa fraud
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...
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San Leandro police chief faces misdemeanor hit-and-run charge after alleged freeway collision
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...
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Pennsylvania man charged after alleged 'hit list' of 20 Democratic officials posted on X
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...
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Pima County supervisors fail to remove Sheriff Chris Nanos but send perjury allegations to Arizona attorney general
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...
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Shots fired inside Philippine Senate as lawmakers shield senator from ICC arrest
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...
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Pima County assessor says sheriff scolded her for sharing Nancy Guthrie tip with FBI
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...
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U.S. Coast Guard seizes yacht linked to Lynette Hooker's disappearance in the Bahamas
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...
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Hegseth tells senators Trump needs no congressional approval to resume Iran strikes
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....
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Kash Patel calls Democrats' bluff, agrees to alcohol test if Van Hollen takes one too
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 ...
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