Every year, roughly 40,000 people die in Minnesota. For some, it’s weeks or months before anyone finds their bodies. Meet the crew who comes in to clean up the mess. By Andy Mannix.

On the ancient Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification. By Erika Nesvold.

For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the world’s most notorious poacher. By Ian Urbina.

Lindgren is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on July 22. But as it looks into a previous rocket failure, it hasn't given the green light yet.

Commissioned and written before the Grand Jury verdict and the NYPD officer killings, a supersmart female sergeant gives us her personal (and prescient) account of life inside the NYPD blues.

Ebola survivors’ immune systems now make antibodies to the virus. Those antibodies are, essentially, the ideal medicine. By Erica Check Hayden.

In interviews with zookeepers, researchers found that good feelings about work ran deeper than a standard survey metric like job satisfaction could capture.

I remember what I was doing when I learned that Dr. George Tiller had been murdered six years ago. It was the weekend of my college graduation and I was about to spend six weeks in my hometown of Sydney, Australia before moving to New York City... By Chloe Angyal.

A fracking boomtown, a spike in stillborn deaths and a gusher of unanswered questions.

Nepal, Haiti, 9/11 - California Task Force Two goes wherever disaster strikes.

A new report said U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White let her longstanding ties to Wall Street skew her ability to police the finance industry, adding to the litany of complaints by left-leaning groups about her tenure...

William Langewiesche dissects the murder of four Iraqi prisoners, the military's response, and how one warrior fought to become a better man.

Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?

The Justice Department acknowledges the probes in a letter last week to a federal magistrate judge who recently received the allegations from lawyers for former NSA senior official Thomas Drake.

Sue Gov. Sam Brownback in federal court. By Mark Joseph Stern

United States government whistleblowers, who have gone to Congress in the past, have had a hugely positive impact. However, often government employees, who blow the whistle on fraud, waste, abuse and other examples of wrongdoing to members of Congress, face great risk to their livelihoods. By Kevin Gosztola.

Shaker Aamer, a British resident held at Guantánamo since 2002, has been cleared for release. Why won’t the U.S. act?

Will TPP enable the privatizers to declare things like our beloved U.S. Postal Service, schools and roads to be

Despite civilians' widespread admiration for troops, there's little overlap between their worlds ¶ Congress with lowest rate of military service authorized today's wars, led by 3 presidents with no active duty ¶ One-half of 1% of U.S. population enlisted — lowest rate since between World War I and II

Republican FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman acknowledged that he’s been exercising his “discretion” to hold up complaints against Republican and conservative groups.