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393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.

American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Buca was a big-ticket darling of the Toronto restaurant scene. How did it wind up $35 million in debt?

A comedian’s relationship with his body.

Black people formed one of the largest militias in the U.S. Now its leader is in prosecutors’ crosshairs.

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise—but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.

Nearly a decade ago, Marie Calloway’s debut book, what purpose did i serve in your life, thrilled and repulsed readers. Then she vanished from public life. I tried to find her.

On those rare instances when I would think about having a child, I assumed her life would be less complicated than my own. The stubborn optimism of the immigrant dictates that while your own life often shows just how quickly things can get catastrophically worse, American progress remains immutable.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.

One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

On the writer W.G. Sebald.

Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”

Introducing the real Will Smith.