On May 12, 2014, Nicole Holder told Charlotte police that she had been assaulted by Greg Hardy. He was arrested, charged, and convicted. Then the case was dismissed on appeal. After a season out of the league, Hardy is playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones has called him a “real leader.”

This is the story, and the photos, of what happened that night.

The dream of getting from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.

Sixteen months ago, Otto Warmbier, a junior at the University of Virginia, was arrested in Pyongyang. He’s still there.

The Houthi coup in Yemen.

“Strong-arm methods, including murder, are common in the illicit narcotics traffic. After a major international narcotics ring was broken up last year, two of the- twenty-four defendants were murdered before completion of the trial. One was shot down in the Bronx; the burned body of the other was found near Rochester, New York. The business executive, factory worker, and housewife never encounter the seamy side, but this is what their bets are financing. Again I ask, Is this really the way the American people want it to be?”

You’re not supposed to just vanish at Vortex Spring. Dive too deep and you might not make it back to the surface, but a search party will eventually find your body. Nobody has found Ben McDaniel yet.

As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.

Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.

A profile of Chelsea Clinton.

The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

It’s in Florida and it involves Marco Rubio, the 33-year-old preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment, and “the only member of Congress whose desk is decorated with a plaque that reads: I HAVE FLYING MONKEYS AND I’M NOT AFRAID TO USE THEM!”

On the front lines of the labor movement.

The post-election life of the woman who would have been president.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

A very Florida investigation.

Rosario Crocetta is a reform-minded leader in a highly corrupt place that hates change. That’s only one of the reasons his life is in danger.

The FBI couldn’t find Ryan Eugene Mullen. Neither could a trio of private investigators. Only Michelle Gomez knew where to look.

The American students hopped across the border for a night of partying in Matamoros. One didn’t return and was found later in a shack with 14 other corpses.

A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”

On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

On the campaign trail in the most Republican congressional district in America.