He rose from poverty to fame as a marathon champion at only 23. But was his fall from a balcony outside of Nairobi murder, accident, or suicide?

Nakesha Williams resisted help from social workers, friends and acquaintances, some who only knew her as a homeless woman, and others who knew of her past.

On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

The inside story of death and survival as the Carr Fire’s tornado of flames stormed Redding—and changed firefighting in a warming California.

On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.

Sunken by grief, Alenka Artnik found herself alone on a bridge, contemplating suicide. Ten years later, she is the world’s greatest female freediver and getting stronger with each record-breaking plunge. How one woman emerged from mental health struggles to push the limits of the human body.

“When I was covering the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, was there a real difference between my wanting to get to the village or hospital where people were dying terrible deaths, and my wanting people to be dying terrible deaths in whatever village or hospital I happened to be going to? Every assignment presents some variation of that question.”

After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.

On Marilyn Monroe and the pains of post-war America.

A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.

A lesson in ethics.

A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.