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Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.

For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.

On the retirement of Ted Williams.

Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.

After the election of Narendra Modi in 2014, Muslim journalists covering Hindu extremism noticed a change. The masks came off; the facade of courtesy, once flimsy, crumbled altogether.

When word spreads about a 17-year-old in rural Tuscany reputed to have clairvoyant powers, she must withstand followers seeking her wisdom and officials hellbent on tearing her down.

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

A viral short story and the real person it mysteriously drew on.

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

A profile of a new icon.

For the nurses in the Appalachian highlands who risked their lives during the pandemic, it is as if they fought in a war no one acknowledges.

In the years before World War II, Zacharewicz shined at Cannes and was wooed by Samuel Goldwyn but when the Nazis occupied Poland, he was sent to Auschwitz for defending his Jewish countrymen: “For him, the choice was easy.”

A trip to the “Olympics of hairdressing” with Team USA.

Hamid Abd-Al-Jabbar and David Thompson bonded in juvenile detention in the 1980s, then spent most of the next 40 years in prison. When they emerged from one of the country’s most unforgiving state penal systems, their friendship proved crucial.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.

Inside the world of competitive fireworks.

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

His almost superhuman exploits made him one of the West’s most feared lawmen. Today, the legendary deputy U.S. marshal is widely believed to be the real Lone Ranger. But his true legacy is even greater.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

The writer of a contentious piece of science fiction, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” drew the internet’s ire. Now she tells her story.