A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.

A case of peafowl dividing a neighborhood.

“They played a game of chess with our lives and we lost.”

A profile of Spears at her nadir.

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back.

Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.

A profile of Stevie Nicks.

A profile of John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar.

A profile of Ozzy Osbourne.

An investigation of Scientology.

How New York City responds to terrorism.

A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

A profile of Larry David.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

Behind a financial fraud lay a secret plan to create a “mothership for con artists worldwide”:

Gamboa's tale involves secret ore deposits, hidden stocks of Soviet nuclear armaments, the Queen Mary ocean liner, portions of Antarctica, a new version of the Bible, allegations of fake deaths and miraculous resurrections, and a collection of some of the most colorful aliases ever to grace America's criminal and civil case dockets. (According to court documents, Korem also answers to the names Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem and Branch Vinedresser.)

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

Why audio never goes viral.

An ode.

The next frontier of search is… everything. Voice recognition, image recognition, and why Google’s data set is one of the most valuable scientific tools of our age.

How to understand the real-world value of things that are worth nothing and everything at once.

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

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.

On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.

Virginia authorities possess DNA evidence that may exonerate dozens of  convicted men. Why won’t the state say who they are?