A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.

“Irrational behavior has always been man’s reaction to the presence of sharks.”

The article that inspired Jaws.

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

On Keith Richards’ autobiography.

There’s some very sensible advice on how to take drugs, too.

Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?

The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.

What happens to the people who film famous incidents of police violence.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.

No contemporary artist has used natural history to tell the kind of stories that painter Walton Ford tells.

We think of the character as lithe and slim as the actors who’ve played him. But Shakespeare might not have intended him to be that way.

Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.

The Hollywood backroom machinations that got the biopic to movie screens.

A trip to Papua New Guinea, “an island caught between the ancient world and 2015.”

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

An interview with Tiger Woods as he turns 40.

Emily and Kate wanted to have a baby together. They were more successful than they ever imagined.

A traveler tries to make sense of a beautiful island with a dark past.

How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.

A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”