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A fresh bid to crack one of aviation's most stubborn mysteries is about to begin. Backed by Purdue University—the school that once funded Amelia Earhart's "flying laboratory"—a 17-person team will depart Tarawa, Kiribati, by boat on Tuesday, with plans to reach Nikumaroro Island on Oct. 13 to probe...

Tennessee didn't just fail to execute Christa Pike, argues anesthesiologist and intensive care doctor Joel Zivot in a New York Times opinion piece—it exposed what lethal injection really is. Zivot, hired as a medical expert by Pike's legal team, says he warned that her small veins and medical history...

Three college students in Alabama spent the weekend in custody after federal agents say they posted threats against President Trump ahead of his visit to the University of South Alabama. Freshman aerospace engineering student Amare Jemal Woods, biology student Cameron Lamark Lewis, and elementary education major Kayla Leaann Smith are...

A school bus rollover crash in central Florida killed a 10th-grade girl and a Jeep driver Monday morning, authorities say. The bus, headed to a high school with 39 people aboard, flipped in Winter Haven around 6:15am, ABC News reports. Authorities say the bus was carrying 37 high school...

GLP-1 drugs may be doing more than shrinking waistlines. An early international survey presented at a major dermatology conference found people on medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide were about four times more likely to report nails pulling away from the nail bed than similar patients who never used the drugs—...