Nancy Guthrie Still Missing After Nearly Seven Months as Case Grows Cold
A Case That Has Gripped the Nation On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in the Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. Nearly seven months later, as of…
SpaceX Rocket Left a 60-Foot Crater on the Moon After Uncontrolled Crash
A New Scar on the Lunar Surface The defunct upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed uncontrolled into the moon on Aug. 5 at an estimated 5,400 mph. It was a violent, silent collision — no one saw it happen in real time, and…
America’s Violent Crime Rate Just Hit Its Lowest Point in Nearly a Century
A Historic Milestone in Public Safety The United States experienced its largest year-to-year decline in violent crime rates in nearly a century, according to newly released data from the FBI. Figures from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program show that violent crime decreased by…
Pilots and Flight Attendants Top All 500-Plus Occupations in Radiation Cancer Deaths
An Alarming Finding Above the Clouds Of more than 500 occupations in the United States, flight attendants and pilots have the highest and second-highest proportions of radiation-related cancer deaths, a new study has found. The research, published on August 17, 2026, in JAMA Internal Medicine…
Fugitive Caught After a Year on the Run Following Armed Traffic Stop Escape in Virginia
A Year-Long Manhunt Comes to an End A 22-year-old Virginia man spent more than a year evading law enforcement after a dangerous confrontation with a state trooper — but the U.S. Marshals Service finally caught up with him. Adonis Butler was arrested shortly after 11…
Depression May Be Quietly Shrinking a Key Memory Region in the Aging Brain
A Hidden Link Between Depression and the Brain’s Memory Hub It has long been known that depression has links to dementia and also specifically to Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how depression and cognitive decline interact with one another has remained unexplained. Now, a new study…
What Doctors and Nurses Are Finally Admitting About Life Behind Hospital Walls
The Secrets Patients Were Never Supposed to Hear Most people walk into a hospital trusting that the system around them is fair, professional, and fully focused on their well-being. A wave of candid confessions from doctors, nurses, and medical staff suggests that trust — while…
Congo’s Deadliest Ebola Crisis Is Outrunning the Workers Trying to Stop It
Health workers in eastern Congo are overwhelmed as the country’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak continues to spread faster than they can contain it. Teams led by community health workers like Gédéon Banga Ngbape are working tirelessly to investigate alerts and get sick individuals into care, but the surveillance system is struggling to keep pace with the rapidly escalating crisis.
Nvidia and Wall Street Titans Forge $500 Billion Alliance to Power the AI Era
A Half-Trillion-Dollar Bet on the Future of AI Nvidia is attempting to turn its artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street’s newest asset class, partnering with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure much like commercial real estate,…
Meet the Obsessed Eclipse Chasers Who Cross Continents for Two Minutes of Darkness
A Two-Minute Thrill Worth Crossing the World For For most people, witnessing a total solar eclipse is a bucket-list moment — something magical that happens once, maybe twice, in a lifetime. But for a small, passionate subculture of travelers known as eclipse chasers, one is…
