On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.

Computer scientist tycoon Robert Mercer is at the heart of a shockingly well-funded propaganda network.

How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

The mysterious business interests trying to patent strains and turn their company into the Monsanto of legal marijuana.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.

The 1979 Oscars pitted Hal Ashby’s Coming Home against Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, wildly different films both on the topic of the Vietnam War.

In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?

Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all short squeezes.

For decades, dozens of men with intellectual disabilities lived in an old schoolhouse and did gruesome work in a turkey plant for subminimum wage. No one noticed.

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

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.