Buford Highway, in suburban Atlanta, has long been a place where immigrant entrepreneurs could build businesses and get ahead. Not this year.

Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it—and the isolation that followed.

A discovery in a Lithuanian forest brings a tale of survival back to life.

Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.

Once viewed as a forensic “silver bullet,” DNA evidence is coming under fire.

Of the 4.5 million Syrians who have fled their nation’s bloody civil war, fewer than 3,000 have made it to America. This is one family’s story.

The search for answers after the worst American rail disaster in decades.

Inside the paranoid world of Nike headquarters, where people are worried that Adidas might finally be capable of taking over the sneaker industry.

Thirty-three years ago, a Chicago man was sentenced to death for murder. In 1999, another man confessed to the crime. Today, they are both free.

In the age of citizen journalism, smartphones and streaming video, bearing witness to human rights violations is getting easier. Is it also making justice more complicated?

In Russia’s Far East, an orphaned female tiger is the test case in an experimental effort to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.

One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.

How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.

The rise and fall of a teen fashion empire.

How citizen journalists are covering the war.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

On the murder of a young Hasidic boy in Brooklyn.