A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

In 2001, Jill Wells’ 6-year-old son accidentally shot and killed her on a remote ranch in Colorado. Or at least that’s what her husband told authorities.

How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

Black people formed one of the largest militias in the U.S. Now its leader is in prosecutors’ crosshairs.

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.