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In 1995, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was designated as the 11th Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest spiritual leader. He was promptly detained by Chinese authorities and never heard from again.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket that will release "two red-colored lithium vapor trails in space." Weather permitting, they might be visible across the Eastern Seaboard.

A federal mediator says the International Longshoremen's Association and port operators have agreed in principle on key issues and will extend their negotiations by 30 days.

The American Enterprise Institute said teachers are earning 52 percent more than their private-sector equals. Teachers' unions criticized the report saying the organization used "questionable research" to reach its conclusions.

The European Space Agency said the $15 million project proves humans can survive a solitary journey to the red planet. The six volunteers will return to regular life when the hatch of the fake spaceship opens tomorrow.

Ten thousand years ago, many of our deadly human diseases didn't exist. What happened?

Authorities say 60 packages of the drug worth about $77 million on the street were found in a shipping container.

The judge says Adélio Bispo de Oliveira was mentally ill when he almost killed the then-presidential candidate during a campaign stop. Bolsonaro, now president, vows to overturn the ruling.

NPR's Ari Shapiro provides an update on the condition of the American twins evacuated from Ukraine earlier this week. The two were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone.

New research out of New York found the protection of the vaccine against infection in kids ages 5 to 11 dropped from 68% to 12%.