Two decommissioned U.S. warships with decades of combat history, including post-9/11 deployments and Tomahawk strikes during Desert Storm, are headed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The USS Peleliu and USS Mobile Bay are scheduled to be sunk as target practice during the Rim of the Pacific exerc...

Marshawn Kneeland, the Dallas Cowboys defensive end who died by suicide in November 2025 after a high-speed police chase through suburban Dallas, had stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the time of his death. Researchers at the Boston University CTE Center confirmed the diagnosis, and Kneela...

A woman who had an on-and-off relationship with Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner told Politico he showed up drunk and uninvited at her rural Maine home in 2021, forced his way inside, and sexually assaulted her while she repeatedly told him to stop. Jenny Racicot, 41, described the a...

A 42-year-old California man entered a guilty plea Thursday to sending a fraudulent ransom demand to relatives of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old Arizona woman who vanished from her Tucson home in late January and has not been seen since. Derrick Callella admitted to texting family members of the mis...

Hundreds of inmates at an all-female federal prison camp in Texas were sent back to their dorms and locked down for four to five hours, not because of a fight, not because of a medical emergency, but because Ghislaine Maxwell lost a sweater. Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein now s...

An active-duty Air Force major stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in full uniform, held up a sign demanding President Trump's impeachment, and was arrested within three minutes. Now Maj. Jason Watson sits at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling under military custody, facing an investigation that could ...

A ten-year veteran of the Rittman Police Department was shot and killed Sunday night after officers responding to a 911 call about a break-in and gunshots walked into an ambush. Sgt. Scott Ries, the suspect, and two other victims, a woman and her child, are all dead. Four more officers and a police ...

A woman and her two young children, a nine-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, were found dead inside a locked room at a southwest Houston hotel in what authorities have preliminarily classified as a murder-suicide. The Houston Fire Department said the mother shot both children before turning the ...

Two Tennessee National Guard soldiers shot and killed a 20-year-old man during a pre-dawn foot pursuit in downtown Memphis on July 5, after the man allegedly turned a handgun on them while fleeing a shots-fired scene. The fatal encounter, the first known killing by Guard members deployed to the city...

Five months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home, the FBI is still calling her disappearance a "kidnapping for ransom case", even as every known ransom note in the investigation has been exposed as a fraud. Criminologist Casey Jordan says the bureau is simply hedgin...