Nearly eight decades after 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found murdered in a Los Angeles neighborhood, the LAPD has obtained fingerprints of a newly identified suspect and is comparing them against evidence from one of America's most notorious unsolved cases. Detective Martin Mojarro, one of two d...

The FBI is offering $200,000 for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Monica Elfriede Witt, a former Air Force counterintelligence specialist who allegedly defected to Iran more than a decade ago and handed classified national defense secrets to the regime in Tehran. Witt, now 47, r...

The House Oversight Committee is demanding records from four companies it says have built profitable businesses helping foreign nationals exploit U.S. visitor visas to give birth on American soil, a practice the State Department declared improper five years ago and that President Trump moved to outl...

A 68-year-old convicted serial rapist will spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting he raped and killed two women in Everett, Washington, in the early 1980s, crimes that went unsolved for more than four decades until three undercover detectives showed up at his door pretending to promo...

Pennsylvania State Police arrested a Lebanon, Pa., man this week after he allegedly posted violent threats against 20 elected Democrats on the social media platform X, including a list of targets and references to a planned shooting, authorities said. Adam G. Berryhill, 42, faces charges of making t...

More than a dozen rounds rang out inside the Philippine Senate on Wednesday night as police and marines pushed into the legislative complex to arrest a sitting senator wanted by the International Criminal Court, a dramatic standoff that has thrown the country's political order into open crisis. No i...

A Republican supervisor's bid to oust Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos collapsed Tuesday night when no one on the Board of Supervisors seconded his motion, but the board did not let the embattled sheriff walk away clean. In a 4-0 vote, with the Republican abstaining, supervisors referred perjury alle...

The Alameda County District Attorney's office charged San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett with misdemeanor hit-and-run after she allegedly sideswiped a family's Jeep on Interstate 580 while driving an unmarked police vehicle, then kept going. Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickso...

FBI Director Kash Patel agreed Tuesday to take a formal alcohol screening test, on one condition. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) would have to sit for the same exam, right beside him. "Let's go," Patel told the senator during a contentious Senate hearing. "Side by side." The exchange, which unfolded ...

A Pima County official says Sheriff Chris Nanos dressed her down after her office forwarded information about the Nancy Guthrie disappearance to the FBI, a claim that deepens questions about whether the sheriff's department has resisted federal involvement in one of Arizona's most closely watched mi...