Top Stories

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles off its east coast on Monday, as the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un warned U.S. forces to halt military drills, saying the reclusive nuclear state could turn the Pacific into a “firing range.” The launches come just …

Actor Richard Belzer, best known for his role on the beloved crime procedural “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” died at the age of 78 on Sunday, NBC confirmed in a statement Sunday. Belzer started out as a standup comedian who eventually found his home on the silver screen, starring …

The United States and South Korea held a combined air drill including a strategic bomber, South Korea’s military said Sunday, a day after North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into waters off Japan. South Korean stealth fighters and jets flew together with American F-16 fighters to escort a B-1B …

A Temple University police officer was fatally shot while responding to a crime near campus Saturday night, officials said. The university’s vice president of public safety, Jennifer Griffin, said this was the first line-of-duty death in the history of the department, according to NBC Philadelphia. The shooting was reported a …

A Saturday morning altercation involving co-workers in the cafeteria of an Intel semiconductor facility in Chandler, Arizona, left one person dead, another injured, and a third jailed, police said. Derrick Lemond Simmons, 50, was booked into jail on charges of first degree murder and aggravated assault, Chandler police said in …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday met with a senior Chinese diplomat at a conference in Munich, a State Department spokesperson said. Blinken and Wang Yi, director of the People’s Republic of China CCP Central Foreign Affairs office, met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which both …

Nearby, Walter Lindsey cleared debris from his encampment under a busy freeway overpass. He moved to Culver City from downtown Los Angeles two weeks ago and said he prefers the area’s “relaxed” environment to the “depressing” scenes of skid row. He now lives behind a makeshift wall of plastic tarps …

U.S. Forest Service officials plan to shoot wild cattle in New Mexico from helicopters beginning next week to address threats to the environment and visitors. The operation is scheduled to begin Feb. 23 and last through next weekend, with the area targeted, essentially the Gila Wilderness Ranger District in the …

A man in New Jersey is accused of holding a woman against her will for a year before she escaped and asked for help at a gas station earlier this month, authorities said Friday. The woman sought help at a gas station in Burlington County on Feb. 7, and she …

WASHINGTON — Federal agents removed three “previously redacted documents” — but none with classified markings — during an hours-long search of the office of former Vice President Mike Pence’s public policy organization Friday, Advancing American Freedom, according to a Pence spokesman. “The vice president has consistently cooperated with appropriate authorities, …