Along for the ride with a boatload of refugees risking their lives.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Heartbreak at the edge of the earth.

“Oh, my God. This is going to be a huge one.”

“Shark Week” • “Difficult Women” • “Private Practice”

“Who would expect the Embassy of Cambodia? Nobody. Nobody could have expected it, or be expecting it. It’s a surprise, to us all. The Embassy of Cambodia!”

Why medical bills are killing us. [sub req’d]

David Letterman weathers a sex and extortion scandal.

Johnny Carson, profiled at the top of his game.

An out-of-character conversation.

A profile of Kimmel published just after he got the late-night job.

A writer for Conan O’Brien on how The Tonight Show really ended and on how his boss got screwed

Steve Allen, the original host of The Tonight Show, in his cranky, later years.

The Spanish police believed he was a missing American teen. So, seemingly, did the Texas family who had lost him three years prior. Who they had actually found was Frédéric Bourdin, was a 23-year-old Frenchman on the run.

He was an 18-year-old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad started contacting her. No one was who they claimed to be.

For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer JT LeRoy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as JT LeRoy in public.

Jerry Joseph showed up in a small Texas town seemingly out of nowhere, produced a birth certificate that said he was of age, and quickly became a star for the local high-school basketball team. It was a role he’d played before.

The story of Alan Young, a career con whose go-to move was to pose as a member of the Temptations and smooth-talk his way into luxury hotel rooms and limo rides.

When a man named Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” unraveled.