He charged men tens of thousands to master seduction. Multiple women say he assaulted them.

Plus: Ashley Flowers' Crime Junkie empire in turmoil, a society hooked on stimulants, and the private equity landlords blamed for two tenant deaths.

Mark Zuckerberg wanted AI to replace his staff. It started breaking things instead.

Plus: Dolly Parton's legacy, Justin Trudeau's romance with Katy Perry, and a musician's memoir in song.

2013 Substation Sniper Attack Revealed a US Power Grid Weakness

Plus: the $20 hack that disables the light warning you Meta Glasses are recording, a scientist's rise to pinball world champion, and LA teens turning after-prom parties into six-figure businesses.

The Impossible Case of Lilly and Jack

Plus: torture testimony from inside a Russian prison, the sons who spent months digging through Ground Zero rubble, and what QVC taught two roommates about friendship.

SFPD Stalls as Mickey Gerold Sues His Accusers

Plus: Roy Cohn's rules for Donald Trump, al-Qaeda 25 years after 9/11, and the billion-dollar ice industry.

He thought he was flying to London for a job. It was for his kidney.

Plus: the millions of American kids secretly running their parents' health care, the Vatican's biggest schism in a century, and why teens are chasing brain rot on purpose.

Family Annihilation: America's Growing Crime Trend

Plus: a $1.8M phone scam, the modern dating slump, and a 1954 windshield panic explained.

He built a German utopia in the Chilean Andes. Pinochet's secret police used it to torture and kill.

Plus: a pastor's AI twin counsels strangers, Britain's isolated youth, and what cave art reveals about us.

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Plus: a phone sex operator on the sexual psychology of the right, the couple who saved China's oldest temples, and the biologist who traded God for a wolverine.

Guards watched his cell burn. Then they held the ambulance 28 minutes.

Plus: Meta's secret $50 billion Louisiana deal, Myanmar's rare earth mines, and a baseball diamond behind barbed wire.

He drowned three children. His foster sister still keeps his watch.

Plus: the family a wrongful conviction left behind, a driver jailed 550 days over boxes he never opened, and a Hill Country ride on folding bikes.

Isabel Miranda de Wallace Kidnapping Case Unravels

Tech Elites Want Immortality. Birthrates Say Otherwise.

Plus: Gen Z's birding obsession, Florida's real mermaids, and one mom's Dungeons and Dragons parenting fix.

Don Miller FBI Case: Largest Stolen Artifact Seizure

Plus: an AI raising two teenage daughters, a Soviet film sabotaged by an American engineer, and why 10 percent of us are left-handed.

Inside DC's food truck mafia

Plus: Lizzo's flop era, fighting for women's rights to divorce, and telling the story of Cuban life.

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

Plus: a week inside Thailand's most grueling fight gym, Darwin's messier Galápagos story, and one writer's AI boyfriend experiment.

OnlyFans Managers Exploit Creators: Inside the Industry

Plus: a mother and son lost to two different mountains, the synthetic opioid flooding Ohio, and David Bowie's secret life on the Labyrinth set.

A graduate student redirected an $80 million yacht. No alarm went off.

Plus: moms who smoke before parenting, Fishtank's unhinged reality TV, and the joy of autism.

What Your Body Data is Worth to Meta

Plus: the Boeing 747's last flight to a desert boneyard, the end of humanity, and Nashville's accidental street historian.

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.

British Schoolboys Are Falling for AI Girlfriend Apps

Plus: prediction-market traders beating Wall Street for millions, a writer who lost his marriage on a synced laptop, and Google's plans for Pine Island.

The Rolex Killer's daughter on what true crime steals.

Plus: a century of machines trying to write like humans, cutting crime with streetlights, and an Italian novelist who keeps swapping his apartment to fund travel.

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.

He thought he hit a deer. He'd killed a 10-year-old.

Plus: the 1876 fair that hid a country falling apart, the orangutan rescues that may be killing them, and Gen Z's 1830s twin in Paris.

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