The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.

A decade in the life of America’s wiliest coyote.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

He stole over $1 million in chips – then checked himself into casino’s hotel to live like a king.

On the shootings, and the response, in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas this summer.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”

An animal's corpse disrupts a humdrum workday in this early story by Eleanor Catton, the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

How the Syrian president stays in power.

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them.

A review/interview/profile:

Let's settle on the bald facts: Eminem has secured his place in the rap pantheon.

A profile of Steve Carell, whose last appearance as Michael Scott in The Office airs tonight.