The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

Erik Weihenmayer has climbed Mount Everest, raced across the Moroccan desert, and is about to kayak the Grand Canyon’s deadliest rapids—all without being able to see.

We know the country music pioneer died New Year’s Eve, 1953. But how?

Coastal erosion is leading more than a few Britons to watch their homes crumble into the sea.

A trip to the Russian baths helps author start to see the good in his terrible eyesight.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.

A caller poses as a policeman and convinces McDonald’s managers to strip-search a female employee. It’s not the first time.

“By the time we got to Woodstock 99 …” In a grim finale, the nineties get their Altamont.

On existing as a girl in the boy’s club that is the world.

A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.

Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.

How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.

Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.

The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.

How the Baylor University Medical Center became a force in the heart transplant business.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism

Roger Stringer testified against his son Zac in the fatal shooting that killed his younger child. Now he believes Remington’s defective rifle is to blame.

Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.

“The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront everyday.”

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

A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today.

In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.

Inside the criminal operation illegally buying, selling and killing tigers – and selling their meat at the local butcher.

Finding personal stories buried deep in the YouTube comments.