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Missing people

Latest Amelia Earhart expedition comes up empty

An expedition that aimed to find signs that Amelia Earhart’s plane crashed off Gardner Island came back empty-handed. But the researchers still believe in their theory.

On National Missing Children’s Day, a breakthrough in Etan Patz abduction case

Global Politics

Family of FBI agent missing in Iran releases video from his captors

Former Google Exec Wael Ghonim on Egypt, technology and changing the world

Environment

What is the future of Al-Qaeda?

Egypt: A Democratic Example Would Pound ‘A Stake Through the Heart of Al-Qaeda’

Global Politics

The New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright talks with host Marco Werman about the the long and twisted relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda.

The World

Searching the Pacific for Amelia Earhart’s Long Lost Airplane

Arts, Culture & Media

A group for historic aircraft recovery is mounting a new expedition to remote Nikumaroro Island in the western Pacific. It’s mission is to find Amelia Earharts long lost plane on the 75th anniversary of her disappearance.

Man Arrested In Death of Etan Patz

An arrest has been made in the 1979 disappearance of six year-old Etan Patz, who went missing on his way to school 33 years ago today.  The arrest may bring the cold case that first got America talking about missing children to a close. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced yesterday that Pedro Hernandez, […]

Searching for the First Milk Carton Boy, Etan Patz

On May 25th, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz waved goodbye to his mother at his front door in Soho to take the bus by himself to school for the very first time. Etan never made it to school, and President Ronald Reagan named May 25th National Missing Child Day in his honor. Now, 33 years later, […]

No, Sir, Google and the CIA Are Not the Same

Wednesday, I interviewed Wael Ghonim (wah-ELL go-NEEM), author of the just published Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power, and the man who steered the Egyptian revolution on Facebook.