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The U.S. government has now declassified files on years of ingenious secret experiments to use "coded pilot whale sounds" for covert communications between American Navy ships and submarines during the Cold War. Excited…
Missing People Cases to know
Start with one family case and one military case from the new Missing People reporting desks.
Three men were convicted in Rogers’s murder. Nobody has been charged with killing Tommy Ballard, who founded the search for his daughter.
Read the case →Missing Veterans / Fort Hood, TexasHis remains were found ten months after he vanished. The Army reversed his status only after his death; two men were charged with murder in 2026.
Read the case →Amusing Language file
The impression is familiar. The explanation is more interesting: languages deliver information at different rates, even when the words seem to arrive much faster.
Read the story →Missing People Special report
The FBI logged 498,038 missing-person entries in 2025. Behind that number are cases that break the familiar one-person, one-file pattern: entire families who vanished, relatives struck by another disappearance months or years later, and servicemembers or veterans whose military connection can disappear from the public record.
Some servicemembers were first treated as deserters, only for evidence to point toward crime. Read the compelling—and sometimes chilling—stories in Missing Families and Missing Veterans. For POW/MIA cases, visit the POW Investigative Project ↗.
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Clinton-era influence, citizenship blind spots, and FBI files on fascinating people—recovered, searchable, and ready for the next reporting trail.
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With the selection of the Biden/Harris ticket, EVERY Democratic nominee for President/Vice President since 1984 has been a lawyer (attended law school), according to our review of public bios During…
Joaquin Phoenix stars in the hit movie "Joker," an origin story of the eponymous deranged killer from the Batman universe. But the group whose logo he wore at showings of the movie is no joke. It belongs to an…
From the transcript of the 12/29/19 edition of ABC News' "This Week:" Bold face is ours... "ROBERT O'BRIEN, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER (sic): Yes, we always monitor the situation. And Chairman un (sic) has said that…
North Korea calls threats by President Trump “the sound of a dog barking.” Here’s why. For decades Pyongyang has threatened, attacked, captured and killed Americans (and our South Korean allies) without paying any real…
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