Terrence Mccoy The Washington Post

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.

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.

Millions of dollars in aid are being pledged. Hundreds of soldiers are heading into the jungle. The Amazon is burning - and the world has taken notice.

As the prison burned and inmates screamed, the guards stood in their tower, clutching their guns, watching the hellish scene unfold.

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.

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...

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...

The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again.

In just three years, her son had gone from a loving college student to delusional, homeless and alone

A skeletal portrait of the Sterling, Virginia, man federal authorities have accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation began to come into focus on Monday.

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 ...

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...

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.

The first step to becoming Internet famous, according to people who know about such things, is recognizing what makes you extraordinary.

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...

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.

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.

Millions of dollars in aid are being pledged. Hundreds of soldiers are heading into the jungle. The Amazon is burning - and the world has taken notice.

As the prison burned and inmates screamed, the guards stood in their tower, clutching their guns, watching the hellish scene unfold.

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.

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...

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...

The mother and son were sitting in the living room, arguing about Ellen DeGeneres again.

In just three years, her son had gone from a loving college student to delusional, homeless and alone

A skeletal portrait of the Sterling, Virginia, man federal authorities have accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation began to come into focus on Monday.

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 ...

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...

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.

The first step to becoming Internet famous, according to people who know about such things, is recognizing what makes you extraordinary.

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...