An hour-by-hour account of last weekend in Charlottesville.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.

Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.

How one of the world’s top conductors became ensnared in a WWI-era scandal.

Can the star of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ help reclaim women’s place in stand-up history?

In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese are dying alone.

On sexual harassment in public housing, which can leave poor women homeless and without recourse.

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

A law-enforcement official released the documents after finding that additional suspicious transactions did not appear in a government database.

Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women.

A generation of African American heroin users is dying in the opioid epidemic nobody talks about. The nation’s capital is ground zero.

Inside the most destructive fire in American history—and why the West’s cities and towns will keep on burning.

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

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

In a supermax facility on US soil, inmates are force fed—and barred from sharing their stories.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

Decades on, a massive half-built monument in the Black Hills remains controversial.

The discovery of a legendary, lost shipwreck in North America has pitted treasure hunters and archaeologists against each other, raising questions about who should control sunken riches.

“What I learned about masculinity from my father, my father-in-law and my own transition.”