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1. On a recent night, the following people fell asleep in their cars in a fancy ski town: Two ski instructors, two snow plow drivers, a ski lift operator, an ice fishing guide, an employee of a ski shop who fits people for their boots, as well as two

1/ Three million. That's the estimate of how many children have dropped out of school as a result of the pandemic. To see in slow motion what it's like when

1. Big news out of Canada: Abu Huzayfah has been arrested on a terrorist “hoax” charge. The narrative tension of our podcast “Caliphate” is the question of whether his account

2. By now, you've heard the detailed account of murder by one Canadian member of ISIS. As many of you have asked, why in the world would this young man

1. A big day in Kentucky: I'm in Frankfort, the state capitol, where any minute now the attorney general will announce whether the three officers who opened fire killing Breonna

1. Two years ago, when we published our story on how ISIS governs, we made a promise to readers: We would find a way to make the more than 15,000

1. Happy Mother's Day. For the past two weeks, I turned my attention to the extreme measures paramedics have been forced to take in the coronavirus hot zone, where some

1. Last month, I was about to get on a flight to Africa for an ISIS story when our world fell apart. Now I've been asked to cover another kind