Juliet Tuttle may have been the most prolific murderer of pets in American history. How did she get away with it?

Playing ill or feigning madness has been a con for hundreds of years. But can a fake sickness become a real sickness?

I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life

America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?

With doctors divided and federal guidelines still in development, Canadians have questions about who will qualify for MAID next year – and whether it’s a good idea to give the most vulnerable an easier way to die

It was once the biggest immigrant hub of its kind in the United States. But the Poles are moving out, real estate costs are going up, and buildings sit vacant along the once-humming Milwaukee Avenue. What will become of Chicago’s last Polish neighborhood?

'The baby-faced lefty was a consensus future star, a 6-foot-7 starter who touched 98 mph with his fastball and snapped off major league sliders from a steep, angular delivery.'

He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who'd run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life.

'From the ’90s to the aughts and into the 2010s, each decade in recent history has had its own obsession with thinness...'

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