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A massive raid on a long-running cockfighting ring in Arkansas has raised complex questions about ICE, immigration, and the future of a centuries-old tradition.

How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.

The intersection of climate change and reality TV.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn’t expect his own life to be destroyed in the process.

A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.

The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

After the blockbuster success of Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts fled Hollywood to live the expat dream life in Vietnam. Then, one night at a Saigon club, he was brutally beaten by a mysterious mob of gangsters. Who were these monsters? Soon, he began directing something entirely different—an international hunt for the men who nearly killed him.

From kitchen camp to political plates, queer people have been shaping food culture for decades.

What happens when your neighborhood, your city, seem to have lost their way?

A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

Aum Shinrikyo was founded in 1984 as a yoga and meditation class, initially known as Oumu Shinsen no Kai (オウム神仙の会 "Aum Mountain Hermits’ Society"), by pharmacist Chizuo Matsumoto.

Later, Matsumoto changed his name to Shoko Asahara and masterminded the most deadly terrorist attack in Japanese history. Asahara was executed by hanging on July 6, 2018, at the Tokyo Detention House, 23 years after the sarin gas attack, along with six other cult members.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.

On the enduring appeal of Olive Garden.

Could a global icon of extinction still be alive?

Seventeen years before the Stonewall Riots, Dale Jennings proclaimed to a California court that he was a homosexual. It was the first glimmer of a civil rights revolution. This is the story of an unsung, and reluctant, hero.

Twelve years ago, Tamra Keepness disappeared from her Regina home. What happened that night?

On the eugenicist and the Mellon family heiress who built the anti-immigrant policy agenda that Trump is now implementing.

When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem.

A mother and child navigate life after a natural disaster.