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If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.

An investigation into the impact of only focusing on assault rifles.

“I found it both freeing and disturbing to spend time on a platform that didn’t ask me to pretend that I was on the Internet for a good reason.”

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

If you want to see what a world without Roe looks like, look at Mississippi.

According to the movie version, they died side by side, guns blazing, in the crosshairs of half a Bolivian regiment. It’s a great Hollywood ending that happens to be true, mostly: they left America… then died in Bolivia. What Hollywood didn’t know is that Butch and Sundance escaped.

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

A refugee's daughter examines identity and spaces.

A profile.

What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.

In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.

How Brock Pierce ended up as an Epstein guest along with a NASA computer engineer, an MIT professor and a Nobel laureate in theoretical physics is a bizarre tale involving Steve Bannon and an international man of mystery who may or may not be dead.

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

Tavi Gevinson talks.

The extraordinary “rescue” of a fallen California firefighter.

A profile of the actress.

They were an organized group of ex-strippers, plus a few role players recruited from Craigslist. They fished for marks in strip clubs, Wall Street cocktail bars, and even TGI Fridays, and then lured them to strip clubs. The marks woke up with little memory of the night before and their credit cards maxed out.

A woman is accused of lying about being raped. Years later and several states away, the story changed.

The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn’t even begun to provide answers.

My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too.