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Michigan military exercise preparing thousands of troops for changing battlefield

More than 9,000 service members are training in Michigan under the Northern Strike exercise, which adapts to changing warfare, emerging technology and lessons from global conflicts.

A helicopter battling a Utah wildfire crashes as a blaze kills dozer operator in Oregon

Authorities say a heavy-lift helicopter battling a Utah wildfire has crashed and an uncontained blaze in Oregon killed a bulldozer operator

Nancy Guthrie ransom notes may be fake as renowned profiler says case looks more like burglary gone wrong

A forensic psychologist questions the legitimacy of ransom notes in the Nancy Guthrie case but says releasing them could generate crucial new leads.

'The Yellow Line is a quiet thief': How Israel's moving border is erasing Gazans' lives

NABIH BULOS, BILAL SHBEIR

Since an October ceasefire, Israel has shifted the Yellow Line west, boosting its control from 53% to about 64% of the Gaza Strip.

Mountain getaway rocked by ‘latest chapter’ of deadly violence as officials avoid gang label in tourist town

Asheville, North Carolina, police link the deadly Biltmore Avenue shooting to a direct retaliatory act tied to earlier gun violence in the city.

Dad sues after school allegedly won't say if biological males can use daughter's bathroom

A North Carolina father sued Cabarrus County Schools after officials allegedly refused to say whether biological males can use his daughter's bathroom.

Florida men wielding hatchet and machete clash in Publix parking lot, police say

Two Florida men armed with a machete and hatchet allegedly fought over a love interest in a Panama City Publix parking lot, landing both in the hospital.

Miss North Carolina USA pageant producers fire back after winner says she lost title over faith

Brittany Boltinhouse claims her conservative Christian beliefs cost her the Miss North Carolina USA crown, but organizers cite her repeated N-word use.

Florida man accused of killing nurse mom who helped him despite repeated arrests for threatening her: sheriff

Gibson Nash allegedly beat and strangled his mother, a nurse who had bonded him out of jail and moved to Florida to get him mental health help.

Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags

RUSS BUETTNER

The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.

The Lonely Crew at the Kennedy Center Will Miss Its…Mice

ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

Employees say the performing arts center’s quirky-looking mice have an exotic back story. Do they?

NORAD fighter jets intercept aircraft near Trump’s Bedminster golf club

NORAD intercepted two general aviation aircraft over Bedminster after they entered restricted airspace near President Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club.

Police nab 'armed and dangerous' New York fugitive suspected of killing father and torching home

Thomas David Ryan was captured in Schoharie County after a multiday New York manhunt involving the FBI in his father's homicide and arson case.

A Democrat Sounds the Alarm on Christian Nationalism in Congress

ANNIE KARNI

Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger.

Indian national accused of Arizona girlfriend's murder entered US on student visa: federal sources

Varun Batchigari allegedly strangled Julissa Salazar near the University of Arizona, then boarded a flight to India before the FBI had him arrested.