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At first, Don Huckstep was perplexed that his fiancée would abruptly cut off contact before a long-awaited trip to Italy. Then a bizarre and grisly set of discoveries unfolded.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.

Bryce Masters was 17 years old when a police officer tased him for 23 seconds. His heart stopped for almost eight minutes. His life will never be the same.

Unraveling the story of an amnesiac who doesn’t want to know his past.

A lonely young man fumbles toward love and acceptance, with disastrous results.

Barbara Williamson co-founded Sandstone, one of the most famous radical experiments in group sex and communal living of the 1970s. Then she got wild.

In addition to defending child molesters, illegal gun owners, and the occasional drunk who steals a dirt bike from the pit during a motorcross rally, Jay Leiderman is one of a handful of attorneys who represents hackers. His current clients include Matthew Keys, the former Reuters social media editor who faces 87 months in prison for hacking The Los Angeles Times.

When it’s finished, architect Adrian Smith’s Jeddah Tower will be the tallest building in the world, over a kilometer high. He’s already thinking about pushing past a mile in the air.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

Help came right away. And then it stopped.

Getting arrested was the best thing to ever happen to Jeremy Meeks.

In the city of Rosario, some fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war.

“I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.”

A profile of Chloë Sevigny, 19-year-old It Girl.

“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”

When the Champ met Castro.

It’s been a rough year.

A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.

“The crisis in Flint isn’t over. It’s everywhere.”

In California, Jeff Lee is a business school student at Stanford with an almost unhealthy work ethic and a penchant for selfies. In Malaysia, he’s teaching women how to win beauty pageants.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.