Terrence McCoy, The Washington Post
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"Fire Warriors" In Amazon Stand In The Way Of Arsonists To Stop Blazes
No one could stop the fire. It had burned for 10 days already, across 25 miles, when the rancher made the desperate call to the only person he thought could still help.
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Apologise, Then "We Talk": Brazil To France President on Amazon Fire Aid
President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he might revisit his country's rejection of a $22.2 million package from the Group of Seven nations to help fight fires spiking across the Amazon rainforest.
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20 Years After Vanishing, Woman Reappears Suddenly With A New Identity
Twenty years, 10 months and two weeks after her daughter vanished, Cynthia Haag was inside the row house she refused to abandon - lest her missing child come back - when her phone started to ring. Her other daughter was on the line, saying she'd just gotten an unexpected message on Facebook.
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She Gave Up Finding Her Schizophrenic Son. Until An Unknown Number Called
Few homeless people drift into Dolan Springs, Arizona, because there's not much of a town to drift into. Little more than a gas station, a Family Dollar and a grocery store, it's a splash of half-civilization in the middle of the desert, where 36 percent of residents live below the poverty line. So when Patience Matthieu, a thin brunette of 31 year...
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Their 6-Year-Old Daughter Was Dead, Killed By The Flu, But The Worrying Was Just Beginning
When their daughter was diagnosed with severe autism, Heather and Brandon Murray realized they'd have to protect her in ways they hadn't with their other two children. They never left her alone. They raised the locks in their house beyond her reach, so she couldn't get outside and hurt herself. They stuck a sign onto the back of their car: "In an e...
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'I Don't Know How You Got This Way:' A Young Neo-Nazi Reveals Himself To His Family
The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again.
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Her 'Perfect Child' Was Now Schizophrenic And Homeless. Could She Find Him?
In just three years, her son had gone from a loving college student to delusional, homeless and alone
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Clues To How A Young Man Went From 'Classic Teenage Boy' To Accused ISIS Sympathizer
A skeletal portrait of the Sterling, Virginia, man federal authorities have accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation began to come into focus on Monday.
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The Road To Hate: For 6 Young Men, Charlottesville Is Only The Beginning
For all that he did in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, carrying a torch through Emancipation Park, he wasn't even aware that the alt-right existed one year ago. It wasn't until Hillary Clinton condemned the movement in a campaign speech last August that he first learned of it, and from there, the radicalization of William ...
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The Best African-American Figure Skater In History Is Now Bankrupt
Debi Thomas, the best African-American figure skater in the history of the sport, couldn't find her figure skates. She looked around the darkened trailer, perched along a river in a town so broke even the bars have closed, and sighed. The mobile home where she lives with her fiance and his two young boys was cluttered with dishes, stacks of documen...
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Who Could Possibly Jog In This Weather? This Guy.
It's no secret that a certain subset of District of Columbia residents is obsessed with jogging. In a city populated by type-A personalities and strivers, people drop hundreds of bucks on jogging gear. They jog in the rain. Early in the morning. On Friday nights, down streets clogged with bars. And yes, in a blizzard.
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How To Become Internet Famous In Less Than A Year
The first step to becoming Internet famous, according to people who know about such things, is recognizing what makes you extraordinary.
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The Flawed System That Allows Companies To Make Millions Off The Injured
Rex Muller has had lots of tenants over the years, but none quite like Terrence Taylor. He moved into a house miles outside of town but couldn't drive. He was 30 years old but played with toy cars. His face was badly disfigured by burns, but attractive women often accompanied him. Muller nonetheless trusted Taylor more than most. He had lots of mon...
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For Baltimore's 'Hero Mom,' Fame Brings Bumpy Ride
If you do not know Toya Graham by name, you know her by what she did. At the apex of the Baltimore riots, as the city buckled under the weight of Freddie Gray's controversial death, Graham strode into the maelstrom clad in a blazing yellow shirt to find her rebellious son. And when she did, she clobbered the youth, meting out the discipline that mi...
