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The FBI and Postal Inspection Service are investigating suspicious letters, some with unknown substances, sent to election offices and senators, as of Oct. 15.
Cobb County police identified the man who died after being ejected from the Goliath coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Oct. 12 as Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, of Atlanta; the cause is under investigation.
Canadian poet and translator Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced, citing her bold work in dialogue with classics.
British Airways Flight BA295 declared an emergency, descended to 9,000 feet and returned to Heathrow, landing 5 p.m. local time, outlets report on Oct. 5.
On the opening day of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, State Police logged seven balloon incidents on Saturday, including balloons striking power lines and a pole. Reports of injuries vary among news sources and State Police statements.
Six people, four of them Americans, died after an explosion in Athens’ Plaka district on Sept. 25, officials said; investigators have not determined the cause.
A federal judge in San Antonio set a Sept. 30 hearing on Wilber Rafael Garces Perez’s request to be released and stop his deportation, giving the government seven days to answer questions about his case. The judge has not yet ruled on the request.
Fire burned near Riyadh’s airport as coalition said it downed a Houthi missile. No source links the two, and casualty reports remain unconfirmed.
A storm scattered artifacts from Alaska’s Nunalleq Yup’ik site; archaeologists dug this summer to save what’s left, per NPR and KYUK.
South Korea’s Lee rules out sending combat troops into the Iran war but says Seoul is reviewing a stronger role for its navy’s Cheonghae Unit.
A federal judge blocked Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center a second time Tuesday; the board then voted to close the building for renovation, NBC reported.
A Frontier Airlines flight bound for Atlanta ended up spending the night in Knoxville, Tennessee, last week — and passengers were left there not simply because
A 15-year-old boy from the Alaska Native village of Savoonga survived roughly two days adrift in the Bering Sea by clinging to the hull of an overturned fishing
A Lufthansa flight diverted to Glasgow Airport on September 10, 2026, after a passenger had a medical emergency in the air.
Friday marks 25 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, and this year’s remembrance program at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan
Delta Air Lines Flight DL2311 lost cabin pressure at cruising altitude on Sunday, September 6, 2026, forcing the crew to make a rapid emergency descent
The Transportation Security Administration has started letting some non-ticketed people pass through airport security to reach the gate — but only after they apply
The United Nations General Assembly voted 164 to 1, with 6 abstentions, on Friday, Sept.
A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Boston made an emergency stop in Detroit on Tuesday after the captain became too ill to continue flying, then landed
King Harald V of Norway died at 89 on Friday, August 28, 2026, at Rikshospitalet in Oslo. His son automatically became King Haakon VIII on his father’s death