The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.

The French influence in Africa is on the wane, and the Chinese are coming.

How the former Bush advisor is “reengineering the practice of partisan money management in hopes of drumming Barack Obama out of the White House.”

Two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.

A stroll through Tokyo’s Tsukiji, the world’s largest seafood market, and the mecca of the global sushi trade.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

Two percent of humans can hear the Hum, a mysterious, low rumble in the distance. It might exist. It might be imaginary. It might be both.

A central Massachusetts city enabled the author’s ancestors to move into the good life of the middle class. That move is more complicated today.

The fight to extradite El Chapo.

Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.

It was the failed dream of the heir to the Frank-o-Matic sausage-link machinery fortune.

Defensive end Shawn King was the 36th pick in the 1995 draft. His career with the Carolina Panthers didn’t turn out as planned.

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.

A profile of the leader of America’s bobsled team, who is competing in the Olympics months after the death of his mentor.

Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.

How we respond to the rules of the road offers insight into being human.

Why is Rick DeVos, the son of Betsy and the heir to the DeVos fortune, investing in a weirdly populous and highly lucrative art contest?

To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.

Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.

On the people who lie about serving in the military and the detectives who try to expose them.

The assumptions made by public officials, and the choices made by media, too often backfired.

Remembering the loss of a parent and the birth of an addiction.

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.

On the sudden death of an up-and-coming rapper.