The sweet, sad song of a wild child and a forgotten samurai who lost themselves, found each other, got better, got worse, rescued a neighborhood, saved the girl who wouldn’t smile—and finally found peace.

An hour from Chicago sits a town started by a runaway slave that ranks as one of the nation’s poorest places. Where running water and electricity are not givens. There, amid the broken promises of outside help, you will find a remarkable spirit of resiliency. Welcome to Pembroke.

Six months, four cities, two coasts and one Batman suit – we chronicle the fallen slugger’s winding road back to pinstripes.

An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.

Here’s a modern Robin Hood story for you: a few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic men and gave to, well, themselves.

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. The relationship that followed would lead to a criminal trial.

At age six, I ran away with my sister to escape the Rwandan massacre. We spent seven years as refugees. What do you want me to do about it? Cry?

How small birds helped the author connect to a large continent.

How a fatal car crash shattered a small town and a group of friends one evening long ago.

His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left.

“The failure to move someone with what you think is the tragedy of your existence. I don’t know, or just another way of saying #noonecares.”

For half a century, memories of the Holocaust limited anti-Semitism on the Continent. That period has ended—the recent fatal attacks in Paris and Copenhagen are merely the latest examples of rising violence against Jews. Renewed vitriol among right-wing fascists and new threats from radicalized Islamists have created a crisis, confronting Jews with an agonizing choice.

We want to find a missing boat with 243 people on board. You can help.

He was a globally renowned expert in tropical diseases, and the hero who ran Sierra Leone’s worst Ebola ward. So why, when he finally fell ill, was he denied the extraordinary treatments that could have saved him?

How the government put tens of thousands of people at risk of a deadly disease.

Uprooted from his life and family in the United States, a Honduran deportee returns to the country that he tried so hard to escape.

Gerry Adams has long denied being a member of the I.R.A. But his former compatriots claim that he authorized murder.

A journey into one of the most remote and dangerous countries in the world.

The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help.

“Medical” pregnancy centers are starting to look more like abortion clinics, and some women feel misled.

There’s a treatment for heroin addiction that actually works. Why aren’t we using it?

DuPont and the chemistry of deception.

Home to one of the most brazen, deadly corporate gambits in U.S. history.

Through deadly winds, rain and floods - the New Orleans radio station that fought to keep listeners alive during Hurricane Katrina.

Go door to door, meet the neighbors, watch prices dip and soar, learn how historical forces shape a single street—and also, how to play skully.

In the cloudless early hours of July 27, two tiny fishing boats drifted across the Mediterranean Sea. Crammed aboard were 733 would-be migrants, including 59 children under the age of 5. Most were from the impoverished and despotically ruled northeast African nation of Eritrea.

It took Tom Denniss 622 days to run 16,300 miles through 18 countries. Which, for a world run, happens to be a world record. For now.

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.