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A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.

Did a forgotten black gumshoe inspire the famous works of both Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett?

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Stephen Reed was “mayor for life” in Harrisburg, PA. Now he’s going to trial on 114 counts of bribery, theft, and fraud.

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What happens to the people who film famous incidents of police violence.

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The true love story of Peanuts.

The story of Akai Gurley before he was killed by a New York City police officer.

How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

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

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

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

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

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As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.

It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.

On the history and study of pica:

Indeed, we have long defined ourselves and others by what we do and do not eat, from kashrut dietary restrictions described in Leviticus to the naming of Comanche bands (Kotsoteka—buffalo eaters, Penateka—honey eaters, Tekapwai—no meat) to insults—French frogs, English limeys, German krauts. But poya seemed to beg a different question: what was one to make of people who ate food that wasn’t food at all?