The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

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.

The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.

“Wonder Boy” is heading to the NBA, and he’s out to change how we think about European imports.

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?

The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.

Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

A whirlwind tour of Istanbul’s public baths.

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

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

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

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered—but so did activism.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

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