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The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time
The pandemic relief was the biggest bailout in history, and it opened the door to wide-scale fraud the likes of which no one had ever seen — more than three years later, we still don't know how much damage was done
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Extreme Heat Will Change the World As We Know It
An excerpt from Jeff Goodell’s new book The Heat Will Kill You First tells the story of Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung, who died on a scalding hike with their one-year-old daughter.
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Who’s Giving HBO’s ‘The Idol’ All of These Five-Star Ratings?
While the HBO series, starring Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Lily-Rose Depp, has been critically mauled, it’s curiously faring far better online
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He's Saving Addicts By the Hundreds. Why Is His Hometown Fighting Him?
The opioid epidemic devastated Portsmouth, Ohio, now a former Army Captain is trying to bring it back — one burpee at a time
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Grady Kurpasi Went to Ukraine to Fight. Then He Disappeared
A 50-year-old Marine with his years of service behind him gave up everything when Russia invaded Ukraine. It would be a year before his family learned what really happened to him
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Pilgrims Are Flocking to This Psychedelic Temple
Alex Grey, the artist behind Tool's album covers, and his wife, Allyson, have built the world's trippiest museum
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The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories
It started when a local man went on a hunting trip. It ended with 250,000 acres of forest burned, a rumor about an illegal weed farm, no clear answers, and plenty of suspicion
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This Women's Mag Is Like a Gen Z 'Cosmo' for the Far Right
The Peter Thiel-linked Evie Magazine is harnessing the culture war to grow its audience
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Grifter Arms Dealer Is Only the Second American Convicted of Torture
The strange saga of Ross Roggio came to an end in a Scranton, Pennsylvania, courtroom on Friday, where prosecutors alleged he was guilty of a series of gruesome crimes and bizarre schemes — and the jury agreed
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They Hired a P.I. to Find Missing Loved Ones. He Turned Them Into YouTube Content
Jim Terry has become a true-crime star by vlogging about his missing-persons cases. Some families who hired him claim his involvement — and his posts — only made their nightmares worse
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