He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”

“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.

A profile of the world’s top photo retoucher, who typically can retouch over 100 images in a single issue of Vogue.

The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”

A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

A profile of former club kid Michael Alig, who is approaching release after serving 17 years in jail for murder.

There are 45,000 service members missing in action from WWII and other wars who experts say are recoverable. Last year, the U.S. brought home 60 of them.

The story of “the biggest retail hack in U.S. history.”

Paul Bremer was briefly the Bush administration’s point person in Iraq. His decisions would have lasting consequences.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.