He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.

How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.

A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

Big-riggers who make sometimes less than minimum wage are locked legal fights with the unregulated leasing industry.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.

As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?

“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.

Right-wing militias brace for civil conflict.

“The Farsi Island mission was a gross failure, involving issues that have plagued the Navy in recent years: inadequate training, poor leadership, and a disinclination to heed the warnings of its men and women about the true extent of its vulnerabilities.”

Harland Sanders left home when he was 13. He once gunned a man down in the street for painting over one of his signs. During the war, he fed the scientists who created the atomic bomb. And then, in his 60s and going by the moniker Colonel Sanders, he began selling fried chicken.

In 1980 a convicted con-man named Melvin Weinberg was sent by the FBI to offers bribes to U.S. Congressmen on behalf of a phony Arab sheik. The Abscam, short for ‘Abdul Scam’, sting brought down for several representatives, but longtime politician John Murtha narrowly avoided offering a bribe on camera.