Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.

“Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here?”

Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.

In 2001, Maksym Igor Popov defected to work as an informant in the U.S. But a decade later, he was back to scamming the FBI.

People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.

How a small-town comptroller became the biggest municipal embezzler in U.S. history.

A coffee maven—and Frappuccino inventor—attempts a comeback in the cafe business.

A report from Owsley County, Ky., the poorest county in America.

On the FBI’s program to infiltrate Muslim communities in America.

On killing and eating small game in Seattle.

Cleaning up after the fisherman at a remote lodge in Northern Ontario.

Watching the most famous frames in history with Errol Morris.

What the 2016 Summer Games left behind in Rio.

In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.

Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.

And why it’s making her a flash point in the Democratic Party.

Life as an air-traffic controller in the ’90s.

How Barcelona became the most successful—and most beloved—club in soccer.

“Two weeks before Christmas, I was explaining to a friend in town that if I seemed more distressed than usual, it was just because I was trying to accustom myself to the fact that my cat didn’t want to be my cat anymore. ‘No way,’ she said. ‘Here’s what you do: You just call Dawn.’ And then she gave me the cat psychic’s phone number.”

A profile of Robert Cade, a University of Florida professor and inventor of Gatorade.

On getting a brain implant to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease.

An appraisal of the Wisconsin congressman’s “green-eyeshade fiscal conservatism.”

The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.