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Three American troops were killed and dozens were injured Sunday in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, the U.S. military said. President Joe Biden blamed Iran-backed militias for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes by the groups against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. With an increasing risk of military escalation in the region, U.S. officials were

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in southern California discovered a gruesome scene at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert: six dead bodies. Details are still scant as investigators try to determine what happened, but the scene was so grisly that TV stations blurred some of the images captured by

A 66-year-old man has been found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a 20-year-old woman in the passenger seat of an SUV that drove down the wrong driveway. In April 2023, Kaylin Gillis and a group of her friends were heading to a house party when they made a wrong turn down Kevin Monahan’s

Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the Republican presidential nomination and bolstering the likelihood of a rematch later this year against U.S. President Joe Biden. The result was a setback for former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who invested significant time and financial resources into winning the state. She was

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 10-year-old boy from Maryland was bitten by a shark while at a resort in the Bahamas and has been airlifted back to the U.S. for further treatment. The shark attack occurred while the boy was “participating in an expedition in a Shark Tank at a local

For more on what happens next after the Iowa caucuses, and how Donald Trump’s legal and political battles are colliding, click here to read more. Donald Trump decisively won the Iowa caucuses on Monday with his closest rivals languishing far behind, a crucial victory that reinforces the former president’s grip on his party at the

A historic Brooklyn synagogue was the site of a bizarre brawl between members of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement and police after a secret underground tunnel was found beneath the premises. The secret tunnel was discovered underneath the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitcher movement at 770 Eastern Pkwy. in Crown Heights. It appears the tunnel

A curious citizen out on a Sunday stroll says he found an intact iPhone — still in perfect working condition — that appears to have been sucked out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which suffered a catastrophic failure to its fuselage on Friday. Approximately six minutes into the Alaska Airlines flight a plug covering an

The Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three different flights, a federal official said Sunday. Alaska Airlines decided to restrict the aircraft from long flights over water so the plane

An accuser of the late Jeffrey Epstein testified the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender once told her Bill Clinton “likes them young, referring to girls,” but said she never met the former U.S. president herself. Clinton’s name appears repeatedly in a trove of new court documents unsealed Wednesday stemming from a 2015 defamation case