When Japanese men in their teens and twenties shut themselves in their rooms, sometimes for a period of years, one way to lure them out is a hired “big sister.”

Saudi Arabia thought a bombing campaign would quickly crush its enemies in Yemen. But three years later, the Houthis refuse to give up, even as 14 million people face starvation.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

Reince Priebus was about to go down as the most successful GOP chairman in party history. Then Trump happened.

The story of a Puerto Rican family trying to get settled in Chicago after Hurricane Maria.

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

A work trip to Turkmenistan.

A profile.

Because business ebbs and flows with the seasons and the economy, Holmes, who lives in Upper Marlboro, has always kept a variety of sidelines, including a job driving a limousine for nine years to put his oldest daughter through a private high school and college. These days, at gigs, he hands out a stack of million-dollar "bills" printed with his image and his current enterprises: bandleader, commercial mortgage broker, hard money lender (slogan: "Hard Money with a Soft Touch").

There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.

A 58-year-old manuscript will become Harper Lee’s second novel, but questions about Lee’s care continue to swirl in Alabama.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.

A Nepali immigrant tries to survive, and support a family back home, on a cab driver’s wages in Qatar.

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

In many homicides, police believe they know the killer’s identity but can’t get a witness to cooperate.

An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”