Who was in a cult. Who lost his yacht. Who did not stab a man in the eye.

Sean Quinn was once a billionaire folk hero, but then things turned very dark in the borderlands.

A Florida sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families across the county.

Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?

After leaving Bon Appétit, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

A white woman calls the police on her Black neighbors. Six months later, they still share a property line.

Her home still wrecked months after a freak storm, an Iowa woman’s FEMA ordeal presages the turmoil ahead as climate disasters worsen.

The petty, vindictive, backbiting, lawsuit-laden, career-ruining infighting at everyone’s favorite local NY1 news station.

The U.S. military openly admitted to killing Somali civilians but won’t return their emails or issue reparations.

In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

An Instagram account called Yo Te Creo started naming alleged abusers in Puerto Rico. Did it go too far?

Inside the shadowy meetings between Chicago’s violent gang members and its elected officials.

The Maroon 5 singer discusses douchebaggery.

A 21-year-old UCLA math major leaves his $9,000-a-month internship to fight with the rebels in Libya.

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

The journey from a Sudanese refugee camp to an Atlanta police academy.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

A student fires three shots during a sixth period social studies class. “Then nothing happened, and that’s a problem.”

A look inside Amazon’s Pennsylvania distribution warehouse, where workers endure 110 degree temperatures and extreme productivity quotas.

On Jenny Craig’s European expansion and how dieting differs in France and the States.

Spins from the DJs at Atlanta’s seminal Magic City strip club can turn nobodies into hip-hop stars.