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She Invented Being an Influencer — And Was Vilified for It
In her book 'Extremely Online,' journalist Taylor Lorenz details how Julia Allison invented the concept of being a content creator a decade before it caught on
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The Inside Story of One of Baltimore's Most Notorious Gangs
In an excerpt from his new book Life Sentence, Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden tells the story of the 2016 FBI investigation that eventually landed eight in prison
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Murder and Mercy: Inside a Teenage Death-Penalty Case That Shocked the World
Paula Cooper was 15 when she stabbed an elderly woman to death. In the new book Seventy Times Seven, Alex Mar explores the case — and the friendship between Cooper and the victim's grandson
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Why QAnon Targeted the Creator of Hollywood's ‘Black List’
This excerpt from Will Sommer's new book 'Trust the Plan' tells the story behind QAnon's twisted fixation on Franklin Leonard
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An Elusive Mother, an End-Times Evangelist, and the Missing Kids That Launched a Mystery
When her kids went missing, all eyes fell on Lori Vallow. Then she disappeared
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What Would You Do If Your Teacher Was Found Dead?
Read an excerpt from the new young adult novel Killing Time, by Rolling Stone Chief Research Editor Brenna Ehrlich
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SEAL Team 6 Has a Heroic Reputation. It Was Created by a Deeply Flawed Man
In this excerpt from Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six, journalist Matthew Cole recounts how the elite unit came to be — and how the man behind it sold a different version of himself to the public
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'Mad' Mike Hughes' Last Ride: Inside a Flat-Earther's Doomed Mission
He built his own rocket to prove Earth wasn't round. In this excerpt from Kelly Weill's new book 'Off the Edge,' we see what happens when a conspiracy theory is taken too far
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Laura Coates Joined the DOJ to Help People. Instead, She Found Injustice
In an excerpt from her new book 'Just Pursuit,' the attorney and CNN legal analyst looks back on a case of mistaken identity that nearly put the wrong man in prison
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Inside Drug Kingpin El Chapo's Secret 1998 Meeting With the DEA
In this excerpt from the forthcoming 'El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord,' Noah Hurowitz reports new details of the clandestine meeting
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