As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

His brother confessed to gunning down 17 people in Parkland. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left.

The parallel lives of a KGB defector and his CIA handler.

As R. Kelly’s career flourished, an industry overlooked allegations of abusive behavior toward young women.

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

What happened next for the Barden family.

How lies become truth in online America.

Successful SoundCloud rapper. Genre-bending artist. You may or may not know Post Malone. Here are some little-known facts that will help you get to know him.

The dark secret life of The Great Zucchini, Washington D.C.’s most sought after children’s birthday party entertainer.

Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

“Jeffrey Levitt stole and misappropriated a grand total of fourteen million, six hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. He stole all that. It was the largest single white-collar crime in Maryland history, almost bringing down the state’s entire savings and loan industry.” And it still wasn’t enough.

Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.

After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.

Animal rescue centers have been buying dogs at auction from the very puppy mills they protest. Those dogs are then adopted out in exchange for significant donations,.

North Carolina’s Alexander County is a Southern Baptist stronghold. It’s also home to Mitchell Gold, an outspoken gay rights activist and the CEO of one of the region’s largest employers.

“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?

“If we don’t run, then we won’t achieve.”

At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.

“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”

The short friendship of Kody Robertson and Michelle Vo.

It turns out “Madame Giselle” wasn’t any of these things, couldn’t make her Chevy Chase, Maryland, neighbors rich, and may have been at the center of a massive scandal in Colombia.

Serial arson in rural Virginia: a love story.