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For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

Inside an international smuggling operation.

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.

He brought Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Cabbage Patch Kids to our living rooms. He made and lost fortunes. Can Al Kahn stay in the game?

Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.

It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with temperatures above 3,000 degrees and the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives.

A profile of the anthropologist.

Why can’t the military fix its violence against women problem? Congress is on the precipice of ushering in the biggest shift in military policy since the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But would it have saved 21-year-old airman Natasha Aposhian?

An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past.

The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

With her new book, the model tries to escape the oppressions of the male gaze. So our writer is keeping some of her secrets.

They executed people for the state of South Carolina. For some, it nearly destroyed them.

There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

Inside Robert Sarver’s 17-year tenure as owner.

Can suicide be predicted?

Platforms like OnlyFans mean people with big followings online can earn money. Where does that leave the sex workers who were there first?

For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol—and resisted pleas to stop them.

How much sand can a half-billion dollars dredge up? Almost certainly not enough.

An Instagram account called Yo Te Creo started naming alleged abusers in Puerto Rico. Did it go too far?

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.