The Trump administration purged top military brass, firing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti, Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force James Slice. Read More

FBI Director Kash Patel told employees Friday on his first day on the job he plans to move agency jobs from Washington, D.C., to field offices around the country and to FBI Redstone Arensenal campus in Huntsville, Ala. Read More

President Donald Trump on Friday fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a widely expected move as the Pentagon braces for workforce cuts. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump at least a temporary loss when the justices declined to hear an emergency appeal to fire the leader of an independent watchdog agency. Read More

Major stock indexes suffered their worst losses of the year Friday amid concerns among consumers and businesses that President Donald Trump's policies may be hurting the U.S. economy. Read More

The Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director. Read More

Luigi Mangione on Friday appeared in court in New York City, where he faces state charges of murder and terrorism in the December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Read More

A jury on Friday convicted a New Jersey man of second-degree attempted murder and assault in the brutal stabbing of author Salman Rushdie on an upstate New York lecture stage in 2022. Read More

Three people died Friday afternoon in a shooting in the parking lot of a state-run driver's license branch in Louisville, Ky., police said. Read More

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 200,000 counterfeit U.S. Forever Stamps at the inland Port of Birmingham in Alabama. Read More