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.

Moroun Family's Concrete Plant Clears a Detroit Block

Plus: the microbiome's hidden depths, a forgotten explorer's true route, and Jackass as therapy.

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.

Navy Sex Trafficking Scandal: Sailors, Prostitutes, and NCIS Stings in Bahrain

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.

LBR Picks: The Best of June 2026

The top stories that resonated with LBR readers in June

Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in prison. He didn't do it.

Plus: Florida's record-breaking execution spree, AI founders crammed into hacker houses, and what training a chaotic boxer reveals about power and control.

He bragged online about raping his daughter. None of it was true. He walked free.

Plus: America's founding argument at 250, the case against colonizing Mars, and Route 66 at 100.

The crime AI was wrong 9 times out of 10. Britain is rolling it out anyway.

Plus: the night the Guadalupe River became a tsunami, the family who traded Café Gratitude for a Texas cattle ranch, and the water law letting Oregon estates go lush while farmers go broke.

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

Plus: a Harvard lawyer's bizarre kidnapping scheme, a Toronto cop whose brother ran with the mob, and Byron Bay's decades-long cover-up.

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.

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

Plus: a state trooper's double murder, Ukraine's drone-guiding spy network, and what history says about science under siege.

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 lawyer vanished. The Rangers arrested the one man with no motive.

Plus: a mob enforcer's son in the boxing ring, the men who executed people for South Carolina, and a 31-year cold case cracked by amateurs.

Disney Fired a Hacking Victim Over His Browser History

Plus: a fishing trip that became a trespass case, the porn theory of right-wing politics, and the marshmallow test debunked.

A guard heard ripping sheets. She went back to sleep.

Plus: Mississippi prison suicides, a man who built a chatbot of his dead fiancee, and the light and noise slowly erasing animal life.

Trump Charity Scandal: $500,000 Diverted to Trump Hotels

Plus: adult children caring for abusive parents, Trump's health claims, and mah-jongg's ownership.

Indiana paid one clinic $340,000 a child. The kids watched movies.

Plus: a predatory doctor's dementia defense, Utah's yearlong measles outbreak, and the dead vultures that killed thousands in India.

Raw Farm: The Raw Milk Empire the FDA Couldn't Stop

Plus: inside Trump's Epstein war room, 1,100 new deep-sea species, and how Britain slipped below Mississippi.

She Asked to Be Arrested. Guards Watched Her Die

Plus: Andrew Tate's private tutorials on exploiting women, the Pentagon's war on Black officers, and the football billionaire who resigned hours too late.

Child Abuse Cover-Up in This Church Spans Generations

Plus: a Central Park chess rescue, the myth of traditional marriage, and slaughterhouse waste in a town's wells.

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.

He Was Set to Go Free. He Died on a Jail Floor.

Plus: a political honeypot that gave a man PTSD, billionaire kids learning not to blow their inheritance, and the DNA math that makes your existence a miracle.

LBR Picks: The Best of May 2026

Autocrats Are Plotting for Immortality

Plus: the underwater search for America's first people, a Russian family in hiding for 40 years, and a girl enslaved in a Texas suburb.