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The story of Jeb Bush and Terri Schiavo.

Eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained a mystery, 35 years after his conviction. One man made it his mission to identify them.

A black 16-year-old lights a white, agender 18-year-old’s skirt on fire while riding the bus. Is it a hate crime? And what’s the appropriate punishment?

"What’s it like to be giving birth at home, and see blood pooling between your legs, and look up at the ashen faces of a birth attendant, a midwife, a spouse? What’s it like to feel the earth tremble and see the roof and walls of your home or school fall towards you? More to the point, in terms of survival: what happens next? It depends. Not just on the severity of the injury, but on who and where you are."

How does a company that sells youth learn to grow up?

Inside the men’s rights movement—and the army of misogynists it spawned.

People have been having fun with nitrous oxide—often in the name of science—since its discovery more than 240 years ago.

"I realized, as I was going through puberty (early), the necessity of shifting my focus from doing things that would impress my parents and teachers to engaging in behavior that would strike my peers as cool. I started saying 'like' constantly. I smoked pot when I was twelve. I dropped acid when I was thirteen. Losing my virginity was the next logical step."

Twelve-step programs treat alcohol and drugs according to the same principles. But heroin changes the way the brain works. If there’s a medication that treats heroin addiction, why aren’t we using it?

The train to flavortown hits some speedbumps as an edgy Food Network host meets his match.

A UVA alum goes back for the first rush week since the Rolling Stone story.

The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.

They were an ordinary pair of small-time criminals in the UK. Then they figured out how to blow up an ATM.

The strange, gun-filled life of the “King of Instragram,” a failed NAVY Seal trainee turned poker-playing playboy with an exiled fraudster for a father and two heart attacks already under his belt.

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

On the set of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ his new HBO miniseries, Simon is as impassioned, cantankerous, and uncompromising as ever.

Living with hypersomnia, a disorder marked by sleeping dozens of hours straight and still never feeling truly awake.

Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

Tracy and Kathryn plan their wedding.

Nearing the end of his career, a Canadian tycoon named Michael DeGroote went for one last deal, investing $100 million to build a Las Vegas in the Dominican Republic. His partners? Two brothers with a criminal past, a con man and an old friend with close ties to the mob.

Sown by science, a new eco-faith takes root.

Long a cult favorite in comedy, Bob Odenkirk has finally found wider recognition—and respect—through a shady character named Saul.