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True Crime

A Cocaine Smuggler Put His Daughters on the Run

Plus: a family's 56-year domestic slave, men who lie about their height, and leaked files exposing a fast-growing White supremacist group.

She booked the flights and arranged the cash for Jeffrey Epstein. Does she really know nothing?

Plus: three prize-winning stories that might be AI, Nicolas Cage explains himself, and the great artisanal cheese heist.

A 14-year-old paid $250 to make deepfake porn of his classmates

Plus: the only woman ever sworn into the yakuza, a Nevada mom jailed over a stillbirth Facebook post, and Trinity test downwinders finally compensated.

Investigative

He spent 23 days in jail. His stalker put him there.

Plus: the lawyers using wrongful death suits to punish abortion helpers, a 10-time Jeopardy champ's playbook, and mahjong's $400 makeover.

The Met's $4 Million Looted Egyptian Coffin Scandal

Plus: an unsolved 1992 Los Angeles murder, Bowlero's private equity playbook, and one writer's months inside the Replika AI friendship app.

He spent 15 months undercover. His landlord threatened to kill him.

Plus: fake viral music, Americans living in the desert for $180, and Gen Z students who can't unsee what they've seen.

Technology

He Sold His House Using an AI Chatbot Instead of a Realtor

Plus: wildfire smoke and sick babies, deadly new microbes, and rural America's forgotten girls

Gemini convinced him he was running a $200 million empire.

Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok

ChatGPT coached a reporter through planning a mass shooting

Plus: Plus: the testosterone boom, a PE firm cornering youth hockey, and a teacher fired for harassment who kept teaching.

Today’s Edition

She drugged him for a week. Five other men died.

Recent

Her baby died. The anti-vaxxers had an explanation before the autopsy did.

A reclusive cult leader secretly ran Tulsi Gabbard's career.

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