By David Vergun This year, the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, marked by the approval of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress enacted a resolution declaring the separation of the…

DETROIT – Jevonte Cassidy Doakes, 33, of Detroit, Michigan, who shot into his ex-girlfriend’s home in May 2024 while his own child was sleeping inside, was sentenced yesterday to 110 months in federal prison on charges of being a felon…

A restoration project was recently completed on the A-12 OXCART aircraft on display at CIA Headquarters. The A-12 embodies a pioneering CIA achievement in aeronautical engineering. Over the course of two months, a team worked to repair damage from water,…

On February 6, 1778, France and the fledgling United States of America signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris, France. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the United States as an independent…

BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Matthew Hurlburt, 25, of Pavilion, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to theft of mail by an officer or employee of the United States Postal Service, which carries…

Roger Williams, defender of religious liberty and founder of Rhode Island, landed near Boston, Massachusetts, on February 5, 1631, aboard the ship Lyon. A radical Puritan who argued for the complete separation of church and state, Williams would within five…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Two related indictments charging 19 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy based in Jefferson County have been unsealed, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona. The following individuals were charged in the first indictment: Hakim Rashad James, also…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, with the cooperation of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, announced the seizure of more than 200 website domains tied to an India-based transnational criminal organization (TCO) working…

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem commended the U.S. Coast Guard for conducting extensive icebreaking operations across our country’s waterways to keep America moving. The high ice buildup around the country since Winter Storm Fern…

By Austen McClain Standing side by side at their Officer Candidate School graduation, brothers Zachary and Samuel Melvin, now Navy ensigns, marked the culmination of two very different journeys that converged at the same moment: commissioning as officers in the…