The FBI is offering $200,000 for tips to catch Monica Witt, a former Air Force counterintelligence agent accused of defecting to Iran and handing national defense secrets to the regime. Federal agents want the public’s help locating the 47-year-old former U.S. service member who remains at large m...

Mark Personette, now 80, was sentenced to life for the 1978 strangling of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey after genetic genealogy and trash DNA closed a decades-old cold case. A San Francisco jury convicted Mark Stanley Personette of first-degree murder in the killing of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey, and a...

A 63-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man were found shot to death outside their Oakland Hills home above UC Berkeley Friday morning, and police say the circumstances remain unknown. Officers responded after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots near the Berkeley-Oakland border. A firearm was found n...

Boeing has won a more than $20 billion Navy contract to develop the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter, officials call it vital for carrier air power and national security. The Department of War and the U.S. Navy awarded Boeing the production contract for the F/A-XX on September 29, 2026, moving the ne...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him, a faith-first move critics contend elevates Christianity in military policy. Hegseth made the announcement in a Wednesday speech to military chaplains at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Vir...

Newly released bodycam footage captures officers arresting Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in Manhattan, complete with the murder weapon still in his bag. The recordings, unsealed Friday by a Manhattan judge, show the prec...

The U.S. Navy brought in 45,112 new sailors for fiscal 2026, beating its 45,000 goal months early and locking in a third straight year of hitting accession targets. Military Times reported the sea service cleared its initial 45,000-sailor target in July, three months ahead of schedule, then finished...

Chester Weger, convicted in the 1960 Starved Rock murders and dead since June, heads to a rare posthumous pardon hearing as victims' families insist he was guilty. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has set an October 6 hearing on a posthumous pardon for Chester Weger, the former lodge dishwasher kn...

An elderly California couple faces murder charges after the fatal shooting of their son-in-law, a New York Times Games executive locked in a bitter custody battle with their daughter. True Crime News reported that Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot at a park in the Dublin, California area on Se...

Texas DPS and the FBI arrested a Converse man within hours of a tip about a planned attack on the state Capitol in Austin, and officials say no ongoing threat remains. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the FBI moved fast after receiving information about a credible threat to attack the ...