Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Paralympic gold medalist Marieke Vervoort live her life.

Two friends try to make a dream come true.

The Puerto Rican reggaetonero has come to dominate global pop on his own terms.

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

Ozel Clifford Brazil was a respected clergyman who helped thousands of African-American teens go to college. He broke the law to do it.

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

On a former Louisiana preacher who converted to Atheism.

A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

On billionaire financier Lynn Tilton and her quest to become a public figure.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.