They thought it was their Uber. But the driver was a predator.
The killing of a 21-year-old in South Carolina after she got into a car she mistook for her Uber last weekend has brought national attention...
A look inside the totally legal, multibillion-dollar industry of college consultants VIEW
Government indictments last week exposed an ugly array of corrupt and illegal college admissions practices, but there’s also a perfectly legal world of gaming the...
Nursing homes are closing across rural America, scattering residents VIEW
More than 440 rural nursing homes have closed or merged over the last decade, and each closure scattered patients like seeds in the wind. Many...
From highly paid federal worker to Uber driver: the side hustles of the shutdown
Furloughed government employees desperate for income have become unlikely entrants into America’s gig economy, substitute teaching, babysitting and delivering food. And losing sleep.
They survived a massacre, then lawyers started calling
The shooting rampages that have terrorized communities across the country have spurred lawsuits from victims and survivors seeking a measure of justice. And many survivors...
‘It’s been hell’: Arctic blast drops snow and temperatures across the country, blamed in shark deaths
Snow blocks the doors. Cold cancels New Year’s. And relief is a ways off.
Occupying the prairie: Tensions rise as tribes move to block pipeline
A Texas-based company building the Dakota Access pipeline calls the project a major step toward the nation’s weaning itself off foreign oil. But others view...
Utah’s ‘fetal anesthesia’ law pits state against doctors on abortion
Most scientists who have expressed views on the issue have said they do not think the neurological wiring to feel pain is in place until...