They worked on asteroid deflection missions. Nuclear weapons components. Plasma fusion that could change the world's energy supply. Anti-gravity propulsion. And one by one, since 2022, they have vanished or turned up dead — leaving behind phones, wallets, glasses, and more questions than anyone in Washington wants to answer. As of April 2026, at least 11 individuals connected to America's most sensitive nuclear and aerospace programs are dead or missing. The FBI has now confirmed it is leading a coordinated investigation. The House Oversight Committee has demanded briefings from NASA, the Department of Energy, the Pentagon, and the FBI by April 27. President Trump called it "pretty serious stuff." Here is every confirmed case, what each person was working on, and why the pattern — particularly in New Mexico — is so difficult to explain away. The New Mexico Cluster: Four People, One State, One Year The detail that alarms investigators most isn't the deaths. It...
On the night of April 22, 2026, eight Iranian women were scheduled to be executed. Their crime, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran, was participating in the January 2026 protests that swept through Tehran and dozens of other cities following the death of a 16-year-old girl in police custody. Some threw objects from rooftops. One helped injured demonstrators get medical care. One was arrested alongside her husband and two neighbors from the same apartment building. Iran's revolutionary courts sentenced them to death. The executions were planned for tonight. They didn't happen. And the reason they didn't happen is one of the stranger diplomatic stories of this already extraordinary war. The Women Their names deserve to be written down, because for weeks almost nobody was writing them down. Bita Hemmati is the most documented case. She was arrested alongside her husband, Mohammadreza Majidi Asl, and two neighbors — Behrouz Zamaninejad and Kourosh Zamaninejad — f...