Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.

He stole over $1 million in chips – then checked himself into casino’s hotel to live like a king.

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

A 58-year-old manuscript will become Harper Lee’s second novel, but questions about Lee’s care continue to swirl in Alabama.

Worried about being kidnapped while on a business trip? A man in Florida teaches courses on how to avoid it.

When Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg; a chapter from Sean Wilentz’s forthcoming Bob Dylan in America.

In 1975, Jackie O., widow to a president and tycoon, decided to become a literary editor.

On sexual harassment in public housing, which can leave poor women homeless and without recourse.

Scot Peterson was a beloved school resource officer in Parkland, Fla. Then a gunman opened fire and he stayed outside.

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.

Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

A Nepali immigrant tries to survive, and support a family back home, on a cab driver’s wages in Qatar.

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.

In 2015, two bright Mississippi State college students started dating. Months later, they were planning their life together—alongside ISIS.

Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?