The enforcer for Oregon’s grocery industry made enemies. One tried to kill him with thallium.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

What IARPA's project calls for is the deployment of spy resources against an entire language. Where you or I might parse a sentence, this project wants to parse, say, all the pages in Farsi on the Internet looking for hidden levers into the consciousness of a people.

At the very bottom of the porn totem pole is the “mope”, a barely paid assistant who hangs around and occasionally performs. Stephen Hill was mope-ing for Ultima Studios in exchange for pocket money and a place to crash. Learning he was going to be evicted, he sharpened a prop machete.

For many, the answer from the state is “yes.” An investigation into what legally determines a person’s ability to parent.

On a remote island, a former airline executive and his wife are preparing for the world to end. Others are starting to join them.

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.

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.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

Why a former Anonymous spokesperson was arrested for, among other things, copying and pasting a link.

What the rapidly changing world of teenage hook-up culture means for young women.

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

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

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

Sixty years later, a dishonorably discharged World War I veteran makes one final appeal. The 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

“I guess what you post on Facebook matters.” An 18-year-old faces 10 years in jail for a sarcastic threat on Facebook.

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

For 18 months, Coatesville, Penn., was besieged with an improbable number of arsons.  But who started the fires – and why?

For years, homosexuals have, for the most part, been politically apathetic. Rarely did a candidate stir their enthusiasm; when homosexuals did vote, many of the more affluent ones tended to go Republican. But now the gay and lesbian community appears to be united for the first time in a Presidential race behind a single candidate -- Bill Clinton. And the money is pouring into the Clinton campaign -- $2 million so far from identifiably gay sources, according to Democratic Party estimates. "The gay community is the new Jewish community," says Rahm Emanuel, the Clinton campaign's national finance director. "It's highly politicized, with fundamental health and civil rights concerns. And it contributes money. All that makes for a potent political force, indeed."