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

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

On the factories of India and the women whose lives they ruin.

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.

A primer on competitive eating’s premier event, the Hot Dog Eating Contest, which airs today at noon EST:

1: During the allotted period of time, contestants eat as many hot dogs and buns (called "HDBs") as they can. 2: They're allowed to use a beverage of their choice to wash things down. 3: They must stay in full view of their own, personal "Bunnette" scorekeeper. 4: Condiments may be used, but are not required. 5: HDBs that are still in the mouth at the end of the contest only count if they are eventually swallowed. 6: Puking up the hot dogs before the end of the contest (called "a reversal") will result in a disqualification, unless you do something horrific to make up for it (more on this later.)

A tech reporter tells the story of his ruined digital life.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.

The photographs that Caesar, a Syrian military photographer, smuggled out of Assad’s death dungeons.

Celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini was not all that he seemed.

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

On the utter brutality of life in the tent cities, one year after the earthquake.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

How Irv Teibel pioneered the capturing and repackaging of nature’s acoustics.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

The results can be deadly.

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

At 15, Ruben Urbina couldn’t bear his depression and anxiety anymore. So he called police with a chilling threat.

Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

World-famous Houston surgeon Bud Frazier spent decades developing a revolutionary device that could save millions of lives.