On September 28, 1980, the Washington Post published a story by an ambitious young reporter about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin. The story won a Pulitzer. The boy didn’t exist.

She was last seen leaving a pickup bar, her body was found the next morning in the dirt beside a football field. He was ten. Thirty-six years later, the author investigates his mother’s murder.

Twenty-four years ago, a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But even more astonishing is the life the son turned out to live.

All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.

In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?

The trendy DIY teen hip-hop genre went from a goofy punch line to the preposterously lucrative engine driving a whole new golden age in the music biz. But, wow, is it messy.

How the Ebola virus works.

A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.

On working in a war zone to pay the bills.

Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.

The 22-year-old rapper on escaping North Long Beach and his desire to be a “regular” guy.

Joanne the Scammer has celebrity fans and a massive YouTube following. Branden Miller barely leaves his Daytona Beach apartment.

The gospel according to nine-year-olds; a missionary group that won the right to evangelize in schools and how children process their message.

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

On the controversial British newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins.

A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”

The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, drawn mostly from kidnapped children, has proved as elusive as it is barbaric.

Danny Rubin wrote the movie and then the musical 24 years later. What happens when one thing becomes your entire life?

How Cops became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.