He used to weigh 1,000 pounds. Now he has to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”

“Watching the cells populate, it rapidly became clear that many of us had weathered more than we had been willing to admit to one another.”

An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

Last summer, Arthur Medici went surfing off the coast of Cape Cod. He never made it back.

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.

How did a lorry carrying 273 dead bodies end up stranded on the outskirts of Guadalajara?

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

He was the father of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a school of therapy that some would liken to scientific brainwashing), a guzzler of cocaine, and a highly paid lecturer with fabricated credentials. He was present when a young woman shot herself in Santa Cruz—but did he pull the trigger? A “parable for the New Age.”

On a decade-long war:

Hackers from many countries have been exfiltrating—that is, stealing—intellectual property from American corporations and the U.S. government on a massive scale, and Chinese hackers are among the main culprits.

The Berkeley Pit is a gorgeous, toxic former mining site in Montana that’s beloved by tourists. But unless it’s cleaned up soon, it could become the worst environmental disaster in American history.

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

A history of food poisoning.

A memoir of Santa Cruz.

A profile of Sam Shepard.

“Every Sunday at my house … we watched The Ed Sullivan Show…. Whether we enjoyed it or not. That was my first lesson in show business. I don’t think anybody in the house particularly enjoyed it. We just watched it. Maybe that’s the purpose of television. You just turn it on and watch it whether you want to or not.”

In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”

As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s. And his lawyers started arguing a new version of the insanity defense.

In “the trial of the century,” a Houston socialite was accused of plotting her husband’s murder—and of having an affair with her nephew. But Candace Mossler was only getting started.