Sarah Marquis’s very long hike.

Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.

A high school student disappears, only to turn up more than 10 years later – posing as a high school student.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

Life at a roadside zoo with ligers, orangutans, and an elephant in Florida.

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.

Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

A Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs are safer than those cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights.

Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”

An obituary for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?