Survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami in a small town on the north-east coast are haunted by a split second decision at a local school.

For the first time since exposing the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, Joe Darby speaks out.

How Tide became a black market currency.

How an informant helped authorities nab a notorious anti-abortion activist.

How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?

Fifteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.

One year later, a dispatch from Steubenville.

Giving birth as a black woman in America.

In 1952, Abe Feller, the U.N.’s first General Counsel, jumped to his death. More than 50 years later, his great nephew tries to figure out why.

What has Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch after admitting he purchased crystal meth and sexual favors from a male escort, been doing in the four years since? Selling insurance door to door and then… founding a new church and returning to the pulpit.

The original new journalist on his start at the Times, his daily writing routine, and why he’s always taken notes on shirt boards.

It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics

“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”

“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”

The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.

Smigel: Louis comes up with, "What if he says, 'I'm the nurturing president,'and I've developed the ability to breastfeed!" And I'm like, "Yeah, that's great! And then let's have him open the shirt and he's got eight nipples and he can breastfeed dogs and cats." Colbert: We had already lost a lot of sponsors. [Starts singing] It's a beautiful root beer day, the folks from Mug Root Beer have agreed to stay. But you better not breastfeed any puppies today, or you sure as hell will be on your way. So be careful you little punk, Dana Carvey! Even I think it's odd I remember all of the lyrics. I am very impressive...remembering reasons why shows I'm on failed.

NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.

He was on a flight bound for the English Premier League. Then he was gone.

In the weeks after Davis shot the six cops, faked out the costly, nationwide manhunt for 17 days, and held a major portion of the NYPD to a standoff in the Twin Parks Houses near Fordham Road, huge black-and-white mug shot-like photos of a starry-eyed, baby-faced killer adorned the front pages of the tabloids under headlines like “They Won’t Take Me Alive” and the local news anchors excitedly invoked his name at the top of every show.

How CREW and MUSTIE decide what books stay in a library's circulation.

“You Palestinians can never see the fucking big picture.”

The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.

What happens when a successfully funded Kickstarter product fails to launch?

How an increase in the earth’s temperature could wipe out a continent.