It started like any other segment on QVC. Bright lights. A tidy display counter. A friendly voice walking viewers through the difference between one hairstyle and another. Nobody watching had any reason to think this particular hour would end up…

For nearly two decades, one name has been attached to the biggest jail complex in the Midwest. Not a mayor. Not a governor. A sheriff. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has spent his career at the center of Chicago’s toughest…

It started with a sound that wasn’t there. A visiting American correspondent was working through an ordinary hotel breakfast in Ukraine — coffee, plates, the low hum of a dining room filling up. Then the hum stopped. Not gradually. All…

There was a stretch in the 1990s when Saturday nights in America came with a soundtrack of crashing waves and a lifeguard tower on the horizon. You knew the theme song. Your kids knew the theme song. Everybody had an…

The security cameras kept rolling. That was never the problem. Store after store across the Atlanta area captured the same scene: a man walking in, pulling a gun, walking out. The footage was there. The timestamps were there. What investigators…

There is a short walk in the Justice Department headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue that almost nobody outside the building ever thinks about. It runs from the elevators to the Attorney General’s office on the fifth floor. Every person who has…

It started the way every Fourth of July on the National Mall starts. Lawn chairs staked out hours early. Coolers dragged across the grass. Grandparents pointing out the Washington Monument to kids who had never seen it up close. By…