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Untangling the Mystery of the Art God
For a decade, one writer tried to unravel the story of Dorje Chang, whose artwork sold for millions and who claimed to be the third coming of Buddha. Then he got an email: Dorje Chang and his wife were dead. What really happened?
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Inside the Growing and Controversial World of Wildlife-Killing Contests
Millions of dollars have been doled out in competitions in which hundreds of animals could be shot. And they're stirring up a culture war among hunters over questions of what it means to be an ethical hunter
- The hunt
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Inside the Patchwork World of Emergency Alerts
As wildfires, storms, and heat get worse and worse, they highlight our haphazard national approach to emergency alerts and warnings
- Ring the Alarm
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A Gun Law the NRA Opposes Could Have Saved Its Employee’s Life
The NRA previously supported red-flag gun laws, which are meant to protect people like Dawn, an NRA staffer who was killed by her husband
- Close to Home
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'It Is Time to Break It Up': Inside the DOJ's Blockbuster Lawsuit Against Live Nation
The Justice Department has accused the live-music behemoth of “abuse, exploitation, and self-dealing.” Live Nation says the DOJ is “being extremely disingenuous” about why the system is broken. The battle could decide the future of the concert industry
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Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet'
Major record labels have sued the online library Internet Archive over thousands of old recordings, raising the question: Who owns the past?
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It Was Supposed to Be a Sting Operation. Did ICE Traffic Drugs Instead?
Operation Mayan Jaguar had plans to roll up cocaine networks in the mid-2000s by secretly unleashing some two-dozen private planes — but it went haywire
- Air America
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An Oil Field, an Explosion, and a Man’s Fight for His Life
When oil workers like Jeff Springman get oil from tanks, they come face to face with toxic gases — and it can cost them their lives
- Breath of Death
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Florida Was Their Home. Anti-Trans Laws Led Them to Flee
As red states pass laws limiting gender-affirming care and abortions, families are moving. One expert calls it “an uncountable diaspora"
- Election 2024
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Meet the Rock Band the U.S. Enlisted to Help Win the Vietnam War
The surviving members of the Screaming Eagles Combo were a group of Illinois musicians recruited to distract Vietnamese villagers with Motown covers: "We went where Bob Hope didn’t go"
- Run Through the Jungle
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