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The Taraia Object expedition, a joint effort by the Archaeological Legacy Institute, Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University, found no conclusive evidence to confirm a hypothesis that wreckage from Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10-E was in a lagoon on a remote atoll in the South Pacific. The findings mark a new chapter in the ongoing effort to understand what happened to Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on her round-the-world flight attempt in 1937. While the findings rule out one of the latest hypotheses, they also provide valuable information that will help inform future efforts to solve one of aviation’s greatest...

Trump administration lays groundwork to challenge unfavorable midterm results. First came the letter from acting Deputy Atty. Gen. Trent McCotter — just three weeks before the Nov. 3 election — demanding that Los Angeles County’s top election official launch a sweeping investigation into thousands of voters the Trump administration alleges are “likely noncitizens” and withhold their ballots in the meantime.The letter arrived with a thumb drive purporting to contain the list of voters in question, and a handwritten note providing the password. Dean Logan, head of the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, said accessing the device would break security protocols,...

CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — A woman in Cedar City has been arrested after crashing her vehicle into a bowling alley and causing an estimated $100,000 in damages. Chantell Strong, 40, was arrested one a count of criminal mischief causing more than $5,000 in losses and a count of reckless driving. Cedar City Police Department officers were called to the bowling alley near 3000 N Minersville Highway for a motor vehicle incident involving property damage. They arrived to find a vehicle, driven by Strong, that had crashed through the building and was stuck on concrete and could not remove itself....

A woman was arrested Saturday after three people were shot following an altercation at Lucy C. Laney High School in Augusta during the school’s rescheduled homecoming celebration. Aiyana Lane faces three counts of aggravated assault and several weapons-related charges in connection with the shooting, according to an updated statement from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. Aiyana Lane Deputies responded to the school at 1339 Laney Walker Boulevard at approximately 6:05 p.m. after receiving reports of multiple people struck by gunfire. Investigators determined that an altercation occurred between Lane and another woman. The physical confrontation was broken up by bystanders, but...

Tulare County voters are currently part of a closely watched race for District 22 between Randy Villegas and David Valadao. VISALIA, Calif. -- Nearly 7,800 Tulare County voters received duplicate vote-by-mail ballots after a vendor error during the ballot replacement process, according to county election officials. The Tulare County Registrar of Voters became aware of the issue Tuesday. In total, 7,791 voters received duplicate ballots out of more than 227,000 registered voters in the county. All of the duplicate ballots were sent to residents in the city of Tulare, which has more than 34,000 registered voters. Tulare resident Mario Garcia...

House Speaker Mike Johnson believes Republicans will retain their narrow majority after the Nov. 3 elections, even as Democrats seek to capitalize on voter frustration and growing concerns about the GOP’s control of Congress. Johnson said he sees large crowds and strong candidates on the campaign trail, comparing the current political mood to the 2024 election that gave Republicans control of Washington. “It’s not going to be a giant majority,” Johnson said. “But I genuinely believe that we will have a working majority.” Johnson is campaigning across the country to defend Republican seats, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is...

Green transportation initiative for trucks and buses faces allegations of mismanagement, poor oversightWith over $1 billion spent, California’s Clean Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project is one of the state’s most well-financed environmental initiatives. By subsidizing up to 90% of the cost of hybrid and zero-emission vehicles, state officials say the project has helped businesses and transit agencies deploy nearly 12,000 trucks, buses and vans throughout California — particularly in neighborhoods that have been plagued by cancer-causing diesel pollution. But what was designed 17 years ago to be the nation’s premier green transportation initiative is now facing accusations of fraud,...

Left-wing Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is being slammed over a resurfaced Columbia University research paper he authored with a “racist and eugenics outcome” that concluded Arab women should only breed with their own kind for optimal health outcomes. El-Sayed — who has repeatedly called himself a physician though he never completed his medical school residency — warned in the 2011 paper published in the “Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health” of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — which he insisted increased the risk of children being born premature.

🚨 ABSOLUTELY SICKENING. WHAT KIND OF COWARDS DO THIS TO THE ELDERLY?! 😡🇫🇷 An elderly couple in France was reportedly robbed, stripped down to their underwear, and left humiliated in the street amid the unrest. Imagine living eight decades, only to find yourself surrounded by people who apparently see two defenseless elderly citizens as easy targets. These aren't revolutionaries. They're not freedom fighters. They're thugs. And let's be perfectly clear: There is NOTHING brave about terrorizing elderly people who cannot defend themselves. Protest is a right. Robbery, intimidation, and humiliating innocent people are CRIMES. Every one of the thugs responsible...

Students at the University of Colorado are in for some rocky news. Boulder, the beautiful college town the CU calls home, is one of the most dangerous in America, according to a new study. One the other hand, the Gators aren’t as perilous as they look. Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, is one of the safest college towns. The study from Lesson Maker Pro evaluated 174 college towns — big and small — across seven safety metrics, tracking crimes from Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) violations and hate crimes to robberies and aggravated assaults. Researchers culled data from...

At Centcelles, near Tarragona in northeastern Spain, are the remains of a massive rotunda that may have served as the tomb of Constantine's youngest son. The Forgotten Tomb of a Roman Emperor | 4:01 Scenic Routes to the Past | 62.6K subscribers | 35,210 views | October 16, 2026

Anthropic said Sunday it plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with the stake potentially increasing as the company's valuation grows. Subject to shareholder approval, the fund would immediately commit 5% of Anthropic's shares, with the board adding, at its discretion, an additional 2% for every 50% increase in the company's value above a set baseline that has yet to be disclosed. Anthropic said that while it has already committed $200 million to study the AI's effects, "given the pace of AI progress, bolder approaches may be needed." The fund may be used to...

GOP sees transgender athletes in women’s sports, border security and socialism as keys to persuading voters that Democrats are too extreme Republicans across the most competitive House and Senate races have settled on a closing pitch ahead of Election Day: Democrats are too extreme to be given control of Congress. It is an effort, pressed in a flood of TV ads and in President Trump’s rally speeches, to urge voters who are angry about gas prices and broader economic conditions to redirect their frustration away from the party in power. To make their case, Republicans are calling renewed attention to...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Lt. Col. Jay Zeamer, Jr. Info from here, here and here. Jay Zeamer Jr. (July 25, 1918 - March 22, 2007) was a pilot of the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, and received the Medal of Honor for valor during an air mission on June 16, 1943. Zeamer is one of only seven known Eagle Scouts who...

A Catholic priest in Ecuador passed away after a massive crucifix fell on him during a livestreamed Mass, leaving worshippers screaming for help. The shocking incident took place inside a church in Guayaquil, where the priest had been leading the service when the heavy wooden cross suddenly came crashing down.

CBS News is facing a defamation lawsuit as a Maryland teenager seeks $20 million in damages, claiming he was falsely identified as a person arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s lining. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, identified the 15-year-old plaintiff simply as “JV.” “He was not arrested for vandalizing it. He was not accused by law enforcement of vandalizing it. Yet CBS News broadcast and published a story to a national audience that placed JV’s image alongside the assertion that five people had been arrested for vandalizing and ‘sabotaging’...

In this week's Avid Space Starship update, Starship 40 arrived at the Build Site for its first major post-flight inspection, Booster 23 goes through testing while construction continues on Booster 24 and Ship 44, and SpaceX has filed to launch almost 20 times as many Starships each year from Starbase. Let's dig in and take a closer look at what's happened this week. SpaceX is Gearing up To Catch Starship | 11:13 Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 14,784 views | October 18, 2026

U.S. consumers aren’t just frustrated with high prices. They’re angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices.Digital price tags are rapidly replacing paper ones in grocery aisles. Artificial intelligence tools help businesses decide what to charge by predicting how customers might respond. Terms like “dynamic pricing” and “surveillance pricing” are stirring anxiety on social media, where users wonder if different people are getting different prices for the same product. Americans have grown accustomed to changing prices when booking flights, hotel rooms and rides, but the prospect of everyday spending shaped...

Americans who were asked for their opinions of socialism by Fox News Digital offered sharply different interpretations of the ideology, with some embracing its promises of economic equality while others expressed strong reservations about government control over the means of production. Fox News Digital took to the streets of Maine's largest city, a progressive bastion, to talk to residents about their definitions of socialism and how far they would be willing to go to embrace its ideals. The topic of socialism has featured prominently in campaign coverage during this midterm election cycle, as candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of...

On Saturday's edition of MS NOW's The Weekend, Miles 'Anonymous' Taylor—dressed as ever in pleather—a disgruntled former Trump 1.0 administration member, discussing the Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar's naturalization status, said that "a tiny paperwork error" would not be grounds for stripping her of her naturalization. Although Taylor didn't specify the "tiny error" he was referring to, it was almost certainly that, long after she was naturalized, Omar had her congressional staff change her birth year on official records from 1981 to 1982. That's anything but tiny. If indeed, as has long been on the record, she was born...