Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.

An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.

On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.

The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

The many problems with a common forensic technique called “pattern-matching” — comparisons of bite marks, tool marks, hairs, shoe prints, tire tracks, or fingerprints.

“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?

Burt Dorman says that the scientific mainstream missed the chance to wipe out AIDS and save the lives of 35 million people. Now he wants another try.

How one of New York’s major trash haulers does business.

Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school? A rare look inside one of the only high schools at an adult jail

Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.

“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”

The author survives a bite by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park.

My leg, from toe to hip, turned black and yellow and eventually swelled to 24 inches, more than twice its normal circumference.

As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.

Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.

Known abroad primarily for its stunning Pacific Coast setting and athletic lifestyle, the city [Vancouver] has since become one of the world’s largest sluices for questionable funds moving from Asia into Western economies.

In February 2015, a cryptic email reached correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.

The President received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

A car crash in Kentucky left a 13-year-old girl dead. A Sudanese refugee was charged with her killing. The story of the trial that followed.

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.