Mykal Riley’s last-second three-pointer kept thousands of fans out of the path of a tornado. Just as remarkable? That Riley was there to take the shot in the first place.

The reverberations of an avalanche.

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.

An investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Philadelphia.

In the age of citizen journalism, smartphones and streaming video, bearing witness to human rights violations is getting easier. Is it also making justice more complicated?

On the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century.

On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.

In 1943, a young research scientist found a cure for TB. It should have been the proudest moment of Albert Schatz’s life, but ever since he has watched, helpless, as his mentor got all the credit.

Passengers get a free ride. Drivers get a passport to the HOV lane. Nobody pays, nobody talks. On “slugging,” the DIY commuter system in D.C. that’s being used by 10,000 people a day and taking thousands of cars off the road.

Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late.

The story of a sheriff’s deputy in Minnesota who took his own life.

"If anything happens to me," Ruettimann said, "give this to the reporter." After Ruettimann's death, Hereaux took the file down off his desk. Inside was a thick stack of loose-leaf documents, a manila folder stuffed with letters, and a catalog-size clasp envelope labeled "Reports." Written in black permanent marker in the margin of the envelope was the reporter's name: mine.

John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.

“When I was fourteen, I had a relationship with my eighth grade history teacher. People called me a victim. They called him a villain. But it’s more complicated than that.”

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

The number one place Tampa Bay cops visit: Walmart. And it’s not even close — they average two trips an hour.

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.

On the legendary journalist and the book he never finished.

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

How the Syrian president stays in power.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

Investigating the investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

On the cross-country travels of the fugitive mob boss.