1942: TWA Flight 3 - Movie star Lombard and 21 passengers die in plane crash

Within a few hundred yards of the top of Double Up Peak, 11 miles north of Goodsprings, Nevada, a doughty band of six searchers found the missing TWA plane which crashed at 7:30 last evening, carrying...

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Four ways to repair the Pentagon’s effort to ID the missing

Last week, we wrote about the Pentagon’s efforts to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts – of which the military ID’d just 60 last year. As our story laid out,...

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Seven migrants drown trying to reach Greece, 2 missing

The Greek Coast Guard recovered the bodies of seven migrants, including two children, who drowned in the Aegean Sea after trying to reach the Greek island of Lesvos from Turkey on a plastic rowboat,...

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