The House approved its version of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act on a narrow 216, 212 vote Tuesday, delivering service members a proposed 5-to-7 percent pay raise and a slate of health care, academy, and readiness reforms that now head to the Senate. The annual defense policy bill, wh...

Law enforcement agencies across three major American cities pulled 43 victims from the hands of human traffickers during the FIFA World Cup, part of a broader federal crackdown that produced more than 673 arrests nationwide. The NYPD's Special Victims Unit ran 87 targeted operations between June 11 ...

R. James Woolsey, who led the CIA during the turbulent post-Cold War transition and later suffered from the mysterious ailment known as Havana Syndrome, has died at his Washington home at 84. Woolsey died Tuesday of a stroke, his wife Conchita Sarnoff Woolsey told The Washington Post. She said his h...

Secretary Pete Hegseth's War Department has approved the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech as the first university partners for a new senior officer fellowship program, replacing Ivy League schools Hegseth cut off over what he called ideological rot on their campuses. The...

A violent home invasion and sexual assault roughly 30 miles from where 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished has triggered an active manhunt in Pima County, Arizona, though the sheriff says the two cases appear unrelated. Deputies from the Pima County Sheriff's San Xavier District responded to a home i...

A 42-year-old Texas real estate agent now faces a capital murder charge in the 2012 stabbing death of a woman once described as her friend, an arrest made possible only after the FBI's genetic genealogy program broke a case that sat dormant for more than a decade. Arlington police arrested Mayra Vel...

A 43-year-old Army veteran who registered as a Democrat and belonged to a left-wing political party allegedly spent months planning a fire-and-pellet-gun attack outside a busy federal building in Lower Manhattan, and told investigators he was willing to kill anyone in his path. Andrew Arrabaca arriv...

A Michigan appeals court has now overturned terrorism convictions for three men tied to the 2020 plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and the state's attorney general says she'll fight to restore them. Pete Musico and Paul Bellar, both convicted of providing material support for an act of terro...

A small-town Florida police chief resigned after state and county investigators determined he violated department policy by carrying on an affair with a fraud suspect's wife, meeting her at local hotels while he was on the clock. Michael Giddens, formerly the top law enforcement officer in Howey-in-...

A 27-year-old New York woman died of cardiac arrest after an unlicensed practitioner injected her with a trendy anti-aging IV treatment at a Bronx holistic center, and the man who admitted he had no medical license in the state walked out of court without bail. Elizabeth Baron went into cardiac arre...