ATF Confirms: Fast & Furious guns tracked to police killings and ‘El Chapo’ hideout

The weapons from a botched U.S. firearms investigation are cropping up in anti-cartel operations in Mexico, a Justice Department summary issued Tuesday confirmed. According to a report compiled for two Republican congressional committee chairmen, a WASR-10 rifle purchased six years before in the U.S. as part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ […]

Report: U.S. airport employees had ties to terror groups

A dozen employees at three U.S. airports were identified as having potential ties to terrorists, according to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by FOX 25’s Washington Bureau. But those 12 workers are just a fraction of 73 private employees at nearly 40 airports across the nation flagged for ties to terror in a June 2015 […]

Muslim Man stabbed two Canadian soldiers at a recruiting office

Canada’s military will keep wearing their uniforms in public, the country’s top officer said Tuesday in the wake of a stabbing attack that wounded two soldiers at a recruiting centre in Toronto. General Jonathan Vance, the Chief of the Defence Staff, issued a statement praising the courage of the military members who neutralized the attacker. […]

Controversy around Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation continues

Federal criminal investigators confirmed this week they are looking into John Simpson, founder of an organization that partnered with the mother of one of the military servicemen killed on July 16. Members of the Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation publicly accused Simpson two weeks ago of misappropriating funds. They said Simpson befriended Wells’ mother, Cathy […]

The U.S. Government Is Secretly Huddling With Tech Firms to Fight Extremism

Last month, an array of American tech companies, media organizations, PR firms, and other groups met with government officials behind closed doors at the Justice Department. They had come to talk about ISIS propaganda online. In what the government dubbed the “Madison Valleywood Project,” the participants were briefed by White House officials before huddling for hours to come up […]

Pentagon admits to flying spy planes over non-military U.S. territories

The Pentagon has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade, but the flights have been rare and lawful, according to a new report. The report by a Pentagon inspector general, made public under a Freedom of Information Act request, said spy drones on non-military missions have occurred fewer than 20 times […]

American murdered in Israel was an Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan

Taylor Force excelled at everything he did. As a Boy Scout, he attained the highest, most difficult rank: Eagle Scout. The descendent of generations of soldiers, Force was a National Honor Society member at New Mexico Military Institute, and then went on to West Point. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq, making it home from […]

Pastor who prayed with Ted Cruz shot by mentally-ill former Marine the next day

The former Marine suspected in the point-blank shooting of an Idaho pastor has a history of mental illness, police announced Monday. The announcement came as authorities continued their manhunt for the Marine, identified as 30-year-old Kyle Andrew Odom. “Initial reports indicate that, yes, there was some history of mental illness there,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said […]

Army deserter pleads guilty to impersonating federal officer

An Army deserter who admitted he spent years masquerading as a federal law enforcement agent and Special Ops sergeant who earned the Purple Heart is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. Simon Emilio Zablah, 29, of Broward County, pleaded guilty last year to two charges of impersonating a federal officer and one count of credit card […]

Department of Justice hires retired Marine major general for key role

The U.S. Department of Justice has hired a retired Marine Corps Major General to head the office in charge of bringing overseas criminal defendants to the United States for trial, a task that has grown in importance as the work of U.S. prosecutors increasingly crosses national borders. Vaughn Ary, a lawyer who was in the […]

Gary Sinise Foundation continues to provide smart homes to wounded veterans

PETALUMA, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 7, 2016) – Sgt. Nick Kimmel is a true American hero. After turning down a college baseball scholarship to join the Marines in 2008, his selflessness and patriotism was acknowledged by friends, family members and U.S. citizens alike. As Sgt. Kimmel served in Georgia, Eurasia, building a patrol base for the […]