How a card-counting former meteorologist from Las Vegas made the first perfect Showcase bid in the 38-year history of The Price Is Right.

Visiting with the Christian fighters defending Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.

Rodeo bulls and the boys who ride them.

An interview with the author, who died Monday.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

The search for an anonymous amateur philosopher.

Traditions, feuds, and controversies in British pest control.

When the U.S. Postal Service was a hotbed for innovation.

A woo-hoo heard around the world.

To the KGB and back.

At home with the beloved writer and illustrator.

On the world’s (then) largest online community.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

Retracing the writer’s life nearly 60 years after her death.

On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.

For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

They were the New York crew that once pulled off the Lufthansa heist, one of the biggest thefts in American history and the basis for Goodfellas. Nearly 40 years later, most are dead. The survivors are old, broke, and snitching.

In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa, Syria. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.

A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.

The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.