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Plus: chatbot logs in court, Candace Owens' loyal fanbase, and Russia's secret prisons for Ukrainians.

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

A stranger killed Katie Lesslie's children. She forgave him before she knew why.

Plus: an Idaho sect's needless deaths, a 9/11 survivor's tour, and why birds never built cities.

She thought she was sick. Her husband was drugging her.

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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.

A man fell from a Kenya Airways flight into a London garden. He still has no name.

Plus: a teen's Epstein files find that got his school sued, a writer's sibling therapy with his brother, and monarch butterflies' surprising comeback.

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.

Virginia Giuffre's Brother Continues Her Fight for Justice

Plus: an Idaho teen lost to anti-trans laws, a Texan's fatal stand in Ukraine, and the chemist who forced food safety into law.

Isabel Miranda de Wallace Kidnapping Case Unravels

Romance Scam Victim Lost $90,000 to a Fake Soldier

Plus: Texas schools arresting 10-year-olds, Chinese immigrants trafficked onto New Mexico weed farms, and $340,000 to wire empty Alaska homes.

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.

Fat Leonard's Great Escape

Plus: a London data center heist, darts' fiercest women, and life inside an ICE tent camp.

Ethel Rosenberg never confessed. Her sons finally learned why.

Plus: Kaiser nurses forced to rush suicidal patients through 15-minute calls, the Trump administration gutting 401(k) protections, and a Canadian exotic cat ban with nowhere to place the animals.

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Southland Books Owner Fights Tennessee Demon Claims

Plus: a Michigan couple's newborn died of untreated jaundice, what replaced fentanyl in Estonia, and why people dream of making things by hand.

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.

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Plus: Monticello's quiet retreat from its interpretive mission, Ukrainian war widows on the mortal risk of love, and King George III's flawed legacy.