Five people, including two children, were rescued this week in the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati after three months drifting at sea in a 20-foot skiff, authorities said. Another four remained missing. Villagers rescued the group Sunday off Fanning Island in Kiribati, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported, after they had drifted an estimated 3,355 miles…
Christa Pike’s failed execution in September has raised fresh questions about Tennessee’s lethal injection execution protocol, which is in its fourth iteration in the past two decades. Pike’s was the second botched execution by Tennessee this year. She had been sentenced to death for her role in the 1995 torture and murder of her 19-year-old…
Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution attempt in Tennessee last month, said Friday that she’s been in pain every moment since she woke up confused in the hospital. Pike said she’d entered the execution chamber having said her goodbyes, adding, “I had not contemplated life beyond that night.” “Several days later I woke up…
An Australian appeals court on Friday ordered triple-murderer Erin Patterson to never be released from prison because of the “shocking criminality” involved in poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms. The three judges of the Victoria state Court of Appeal dismissed Patterson’s appeal of her convictions and upheld prosecutors’ challenge to…
A German submarine slipped through frigid New England waters and covertly dropped off two Nazi spies in Maine on Nov. 29, 1944. Their assignment was to gather intelligence in the United States at the height of World War II. Just four days later, the same U-boat spotted a merchant ship in the area and fired…
The Milwaukee Brewers are finally World Series champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night, taking the series 4-1. Wednesday’s 4-1 win at Tropicana Field in Tampa gave the Brewers their first title since their founding as an expansion franchise 57 years ago. It was just their second trip to the World Series,…
President Trump said Democrat Mary Peltola “shouldn’t be allowed to run” in next week’s Alaska Senate race, after The New York Times reported that people aligned with Peltola’s campaign helped recruit a candidate with the same first and last name as her main opponent, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. “I don’t think Mary Peltola, after perpetrating…
The U.S. military said it attacked a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing five people, as the Trump administration continues its campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed by the U.S. military’s boat strikes to…
Okinawa proved to be the last and costliest battle of World War II in the Pacific – and it’s a name director Peter Berg wants us all to remember. His new movie, “The Mosquito Bowl,” captures that battle. “It is a film that I hope asks us all to look at what we ask of…
Ukrainian police said Friday they had detained a 17-year-old girl suspected of helping Russia’s security services to poison Ukrainian soldiers and that two had died. Ukraine and Russia have throughout their war since 2022 accused each other of recruiting minors for sabotage acts including poisoning. The girl, who was not named, is suspected of having…
