When he was 29 years old, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS — also called Lou Gehrig’s disease — and told he had two to five years to live. But Stephen and his family refused to accept the ...

What obligation does Hollywood owe facts, accuracy, the truth? When popular history like Oliver Stone’s JFK gets hold of a subject, what kind of damage can be done? Those are the central questions in ...

A part of the story of America’s political journey from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump was the rise of racial anger — as seen in the crude, racist stereotypes of Obama that showed up ...

Puerto Rican artists Ricky Martin, Residente and Bad Bunny take part in a demonstration demanding Governor Ricardo Rossello’s resignation in San Juan. Days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico ...

The 2017 hurricane season was unlike any other. First came Hurricane Harvey, followed a little more than two weeks later by Hurricane Irma. The storms swept through multiple states and caused an ...

FRONTLINE examines Syria’s uncertain future under jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa. After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, correspondent Martin Smith travels the country tracing al-Sharaa’s rise ...

Tuberculosis was once thought to be a disease of the past. But with virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, TB — passed simply by a cough or a sneeze — is the second leading ...

Journalist Safa Al Ahmad makes a dangerous trip to report on the fighting in Yemen and the stunning human cost of the war.

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In October 2001, Northern Arizona University microbiologist Dr. Paul Keim identified that the anthrax used in the attack letters was the Ames strain, a development he described as “chilling” because ...

Since the Holocaust, Germany has worked to overcome its Nazi history. But over the past decade, Germany has faced a rising wave of far-right violence and plots against Jews, Muslims, immigrants and ...

The boy first appeared in the ISIS propaganda video in late August 2017, handling a firearm. Slight, with large dark eyes and a buzz cut, he introduces himself as Yusuf, a 10-year-old resident of the ...