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...

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 42-year-old California man who sent a fraudulent bitcoin ransom demand to the family of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie walked away with probation and a $200 fine, while her daughter, NBC's Savannah Guthrie, still begs the public for help seven months later. Derrick Callella of Hawthorne, Califo...

Federal authorities arrested a 43-year-old Brazilian illegal immigrant accused of strangling a 33-year-old woman inside her Massachusetts home, a killing he reportedly confessed to on a 911 call he placed himself. Flavio Alcantara Dias called police after Brianna Connolly died in what prosecutors de...

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...

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...

A 59-year-old man whose body lay undiscovered for days, possibly weeks, on a Lorain, Ohio, street has been identified as Jorge Pabon, a resident of a local homeless shelter, and no arrests have been made. Property owners on the 1200 block of Washington Avenue called Lorain police around 9:30 a.m. on...

A midair collision between a Cessna 150 and a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter near Carlisle Airport killed the small plane's pilot and injured two state troopers, an incident investigators say they are far from explaining. The crash happened around 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, August 19, when the si...

President Trump ordered the Navy to strip the advanced electromagnetic launch system from the USS Doris Miller and revert to steam catapults, a directive that could cost billions and reverse work already halfway finished on the fourth Ford-class carrier. The White House memo, issued Thursday, gives ...

A former Obama campaign aide claims his contacts in and around the Trump White House expect Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be pushed out before Thanksgiving, a prediction the administration flatly denies. Christopher Hale, a Democratic political consultant who helped lead Catholic outreach for Ba...