An army vet vanishes in upstate New York.

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.

“He stood on edges. He skied edges. He climbed edges.”

Making ends meet in Iowa City.

A profile.

A modern-day treasure hunt.

Before you ever feel it.

Hunting child predators with actress Marisol Nichols.

How Wall Street enabled a global financial scandal.

A trip to Carbohydrate Camelot.

A trip to Batumi, Georgia.

Two ordinary Americans, inspired by right-wing extremism, plan to kidnap a cop.

Gulfport police killed a Black veteran. His family waits for answers.

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus Lewis, now age 20, sat down in his dad’s kitchen in Suffolk, Va., opened a sound-mixing program called Fruity Loops on his laptop and created a new track... Months later, Luger — who says he was “broke as a joke” by that point, about to become a father for the second time and seriously considering taking a job stocking boxes in a warehouse — heard that same beat on the radio, transformed into a Waka song called “Hard in da Paint.” Before long, he couldn’t get away from it.

Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.

How a 22-year-old with five warrants for her arrest in Utah conned her way through Brooklyn armed with nothing more than a dirty mouth and a penchant for faking pregnancy and/or cancer.

As Europe, led by Greece and Ireland and followed by Portugal and Spain, tumbles towards economic catastrophe, only one nation can save the continent from financial ruin: a highly reluctant Germany.

What America owes those it takes in.

L’Wren Scott went from bullied Mormon teen to international model to Hollywood stylist to fashion designer, becoming Mick Jagger’s girlfriend in the process. In March, she took her own life.

Aboard the JoCo Cruise Crazy, a ship captained by singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton and built for nerds.

Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.

“And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you.”