Michael Natale

Bus driver Kevin McKay rescued dozens from Paradise, California, as the 2018 Camp Fire raged.

Kathy Bates and Owen Cooper are among the historic nominees entering Sunday’s ceremony.

The 77-year-old Matlock star is the oldest woman to be nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

At least we’ll always have their music.

From military might to philosophical insights, these ancient leaders shaped how we live today.

They sought utopia on Floreana Island but faced scandal and death.

The president’s commutation came with a catch. The labor union leader fought it—and vanished four years later.

Using Google Earth, Justin Myers found some anomalies near Nikumaroro Island that he thinks are strikingly similar to Earhart’s lost plane.

As the Continental Army faced a brutal winter, British forces attempted a sneak attack on General Washington’s New Jersey headquarters to capture, and possibly kill, the future president of the United States.

The legendary comedian shot the scene prior to his 1982 overdose. Four decades later, the footage is still missing.

A statue of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor and revered Stoic philosopher, was repatriated to Turkey after being illegally excavated in the 1960s. Experts had to literally get their hands dirty to make it happen.

A third shape hidden in the infamous Vitruvian Man drawing suggests an even deeper understanding of human anatomy than previously known.

The rock and roll legend’s genome showed he was genetically predisposed to hard partying.

Could an answer finally be on the horizon?

Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report officially confirms it to be.

A rock ’n’ roll mystery revolving around one of the 1960s’ most enigmatic frontmen is finally resolved.

Thanks to a new Netflix documentary, the hoax that hoodwinked the media is back in the headlines. But what happened to the family behind it?

Some framed it as a power struggle. Others as a battle between commerce and safety concerns. Whatever the conflict, an upcoming movie will unpack the brief battle.

From Amelia Earhart to D.B. Cooper, these names are etched in history—with a few blank spaces in their biographies.

The infamous con artist started a fake real estate business in Florida after serving federal prison time for mail fraud.

Pilots Buck and Bill Pattillo were in the inaugural class of Thunderbirds. One half of the daring duo had a harrowing misadventure behind enemy lines in World War II.

When a series of fatal poisonings rocked Chicago in the early 1980s, James Lewis sought to profit. Recent evidence indicates he might have been more involved than he claimed.

The subject of a new documentary Deaf President Now!, the students of Gallaudet University rallied around the cry of “Nothing About Us Without Us.”

The new TV show Duster follows a fictional version of the first Black woman FBI agent. But the triumph of Sylvia Mathis is a very real trailblazing piece of law enforcement history.

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of extraordinary.

The stunning ancient symbols shed light on a little-known chapter in religious history.

The famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” gets some of the facts wrong. Here’s what really happened 250 years ago.

The “Anti-Stratfordians” are putting their faith in an AI authorship test.

Decades after the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, historians still wonder who gave away the hiding place of the Frank family. Newer research suggests an even more unfathomable answer.

Frank Costello and Vito Genovese were brought together by Prohibition profits and “Lucky” Luciano. Their lust for power over New York’s Five Families drove them apart.

Serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy led reigns of terror with striking frequency. Was the cause environmental? Was it social? Or something far more disturbing?

President John F. Kennedy’s shocking assassination stopped the world on November 22, 1963. A botched investigation continues to cloud our conclusions about the crime.