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...

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...

A recently evicted tenant with a lengthy criminal record and a documented history of gun threats opened fire inside a downtown Minneapolis high-rise Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and wounding three police officers before taking his own life, the second deadly shooting at the same building ...

A recently evicted tenant opened fire inside a downtown Minneapolis high-rise Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and wounding five others, including two police officers who charged into the building within minutes, before the gunman himself was found dead at the scene. Officers responded to a 9...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...