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The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.

A trip into the Arctic.

Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.

There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?

Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.

Other companies tried to align themselves with the Black Lives Matter protests and failed. The Vermont creamery kept doing what it’s always done.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

A man's relationship to help and addictions.

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.

An interview with the singer.

The fall of CBS showrunner Peter Lenkov.

The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

Four years ago, Dominique Jones got out of prison and learned to rap. Today he is, by many metrics, the most popular rapper in the world.

The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

Many young South Koreans were beginning to live in isolation years before the rest of the world joined them.

Frankie Manning was the greatest swing dancer alive. Then the world forgot about him.