Breaking: Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for murder, hanged himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell overnight. He was just 27. Hernandez was convicted of murdering a friend in 2013. Just …

Streaming Death: Facebook is defending itself after a Cleveland man posted video of himself randomly killing an elderly man, and then went live on Facebook announcing the murder. More than two hours passed before Facebook took down the videos. A …

DMZ: Vice President Mike Pence was talking tough on a quick trip to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. Pence said, “The world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and …

Kimchi Krisis: North Korea yesterday featured several new ballistic missiles in a massive military parade celebrating the 105th anniversary of the birth of the country’s totalitarian founder, Kim Il-sung. The North Koreans showed off tube-launched missiles that are hard to …

Storm Clouds: China warned yesterday that tensions over North Korea’s military posturing could spin out of control. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said in Beijing, “The United States and South Korea and North Korea are engaging in tit for tat, …

Permawar: The US military for the first time dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb yesterday on an Islamic State complex of tunnels and bunkers in Afghanistan. The Massive Ordnance Air Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “Mother of All Bombs,” bursts in …

Foreign Relations:  After meeting with his Russian counterpart and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, “The current state of US Russian relations is at a low point.” The US has confronted Russia about its potential knowledge …

The Russia House: The FBI got a secret warrant last summer to monitor Donald Trump’s campaign aide Carter Page, according to a report in The Washington Post. In an investigation into Russian influence on the election, the feds convinced the …

Friendly Skies: United Airlines has a public relations mess on its hands. On Sunday, a flight departing Chicago for Louisville was fully loaded when a supervisor announced, “We have United employees that need to fly to Louisville tonight. … This …

Big Talk: The Trump administration is telling Russia to abandon its support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad or face further deteriorating relations with the US. The US says that by supporting Assad, Russia is at least in part responsible for …