Joel Shannon

1 week ago | usatoday.com | Elizabeth Weise |Joel Shannon

The pressure keeps building below the Earth’s surface off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, and a multi-layered disaster could strike at any time. A huge earthquake is brewing along the Cascadia Subduction Zone that could destroy bridges, reshape the landscape and trigger a massive tsunami. Scientists have known about the looming danger for years, but ongoing research keeps painting a clearer picture of what could happen.

4 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Joel Shannon

No new pope has yet been selected to replace Pope Francis, but there's still a chance that one will be picked as the second day of conclave continues on Thursday, May 8. The 133 elector cardinals who will chose the next pope are allowed two more votes on May 8. If they fail to elect someone by a two-thirds margin, the process will continue on Friday, May 9. The live stream below will be the first sign of a new pope.

1 month ago | usatoday.com | Joel Shannon

A nightmarish scenario for the Pacific Northwest has gotten a dramatic update. Researchers have long warned that a stretch of coast in Oregon and Washington state is capable of producing an incredibly powerful earthquake that could kill thousands, shattering critical bridges, destroying undersea communication cables and producing a tsunami. It's a disaster scenario that "could happen at any time," according to a 2013 analysis.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Josh Meyer |Joel Shannon

Americans anticipating a huge release of documents on Tuesday night about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy got what they were expecting, but experts say it will take time to sort out the importance of a huge information dump. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says it released 63,400 pages across 2,182 PDF files, a stunning volume of information for historians and amateur sleuths to comb through.

2 months ago | azcentral.com | Josh Meyer |Joel Shannon

Americans anticipating a huge release of newly redacted documents on Tuesday night about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy got at least some of what they were expecting, but experts say it will take time to sort out the importance of the most recent information dump. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says it released about 63,000 pages across more than 2,100 PDF files, a stunning volume of information for historians and amateur sleuths to comb through.