The 20 soldiers in Second Platoon try in vain to hold down a strategic outpost in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “among the deadliest pieces of terrain in the world for U.S. forces.”

“In an industry in which millions of people are invested in his success – in which he’s constantly being advised, praised and berated, often by total strangers – Revis’ tranquillity might be his greatest asset. He isn’t just an island. He’s a fortress.”

What a soldier finds in combat.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

On immigration detainees in the United Kingdom, and the suffering that lands them in detention.

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

On a failed attack in Spokane and the fragments of homegrown terrorism in the United States.

When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?

A patient arrives in a therapist’s office complaining of writer’s block. He’s not in search of the talking cure, though.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.

In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.

South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

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

Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

The president is overseeing a sea change in the world of economic policy, and so much hangs in the balance.

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

Professional daredevils in love.