Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.

South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

Who was in a cult. Who lost his yacht. Who did not stab a man in the eye.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

A profile of Salvatore Strazzullo, who represents celebrities, whether major or minor, who get themselves in trouble in Manhattan after dark.

A field report from Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night bacchanal in the Las Vegas desert attended by “100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed in furry underwear.”

Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

In his first Major League at bat, Adam Greenberg was hit in the head with a fastball. He never made it back.

Life as a crime reporter in one of the most violent places in the world.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

The writer Alfred Chester, who died alone in a Jerusalem apartment in 1971 at just 37, was brilliant. He was also insane.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

In 2001, Jill Wells’ 6-year-old son accidentally shot and killed her on a remote ranch in Colorado. Or at least that’s what her husband told authorities.

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

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

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

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.