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The dark money and political power behind the nation’s largest gun group.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

On the production team of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, who defined the’90s at the box office with films like Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop, then struggled amidst Simpson’s hedonistic excess and the failure of Days of Thunder.

An investigation into the Dr. Anthony Bosch and his “East Coast version of BALCO,” which allegedly supplied baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and others with performance-enhancing drugs.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

A profile of 23-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio (and his rowdy crew).

How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

Meeting the rebel government of an embattled country.

A profile of Dr. Oz.

A profile of Christine Quinn, odds-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City.

Dr. Elisabeth Targ became famous for running scientific experiments that appeared to prove the healing power of faith. Then she got sick and became a test subject herself.

On Luddites, “bands of men, organized, masked, anonymous, whose object was to destroy machinery used mostly in the textile industry,” and their literary spawn.

On the tortured psyche of former 49ers coach Bill Walsh and how it led to Finding the Winning Edge, his 550-page guide to the game that has become the football’s bible.

The life and work of Aaron Swartz, in context.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”

The outgoing treasury secretary on his financial crisis regrets, putting policy before politics, and whether Washington will ever be able to strike a grand bargain.

Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.