The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

What happened to the National Enquirer after it went all in for Trump.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

Korean adoptees felt isolated and alone for decades. Then Facebook brought them together.

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

In 1980 a convicted con-man named Melvin Weinberg was sent by the FBI to offers bribes to U.S. Congressmen on behalf of a phony Arab sheik. The Abscam, short for ‘Abdul Scam’, sting brought down for several representatives, but longtime politician John Murtha narrowly avoided offering a bribe on camera.

Calvin Stanley is a fourth-grader at Cross Country Elementary School. He rides a bike, watches TV, plays video games and does just about everything other 10-year-old boys do. Except see.

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back.

“For him, I was a blot on a spectacular ascent. For me, it was the opposite.”

Life as Steve Jobs's daughter when he denied being your dad.

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.