The U.S. Navy brought in 45,112 new sailors for fiscal 2026, beating its 45,000 goal months early and locking in a third straight year of hitting accession targets. Military Times reported the sea service cleared its initial 45,000-sailor target in July, three months ahead of schedule, then finished...

An elderly California couple faces murder charges after the fatal shooting of their son-in-law, a New York Times Games executive locked in a bitter custody battle with their daughter. True Crime News reported that Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot at a park in the Dublin, California area on Se...

Chester Weger, convicted in the 1960 Starved Rock murders and dead since June, heads to a rare posthumous pardon hearing as victims' families insist he was guilty. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has set an October 6 hearing on a posthumous pardon for Chester Weger, the former lodge dishwasher kn...

Texas DPS and the FBI arrested a Converse man within hours of a tip about a planned attack on the state Capitol in Austin, and officials say no ongoing threat remains. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the FBI moved fast after receiving information about a credible threat to attack the ...

Eight Navy sailors died by suicide at a Tinker Air Force Base unit in one year, pushing leaders to add chaplains and counselors as grieving families demand real reform. Thatcher Rupert was 20 years old when he sought emergency mental health care at the 72nd Medical Group clinic near Tinker Air Force...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has tapped Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-direct a panel on future combat technologies so America stays ahead of its rivals. At Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Wednesday, Hegseth used his State of the Force address to unveil Project Meridian ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth halted civilian tenure hires at military academies, arguing academic norms dilute the warfighting mission and foster faculty complacency. On Tuesday, Hegseth directed departments to freeze appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at the U.S. military service...

Investigators have junked a fresh ransom tip in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance as the probe hits eight months, and a former FBI abduction specialist says every lead still has to be chased hard. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the PCSD/FBI Guthrie Task Force reviewed a new possible ransom messa...

An Idaho CEO was arrested for allegedly helping Russians hide ownership of a firm whose software reached the Secret Service, prosecutors say the cover-up followed Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Lee Reiber, 55, was taken into custody in Idaho on Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud a...

Arizona investigators are reviewing a new possible ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie case nearly eight months after the 84-year-old vanished, still with no arrests and credibility under review. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said a joint police and FBI task force was recently made aware of th...