John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Behind a $1,000 sundae were two very, very ill-suited business partners.

The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other modern technology due to a high-tech government telescope. Recently, this ban has made the town a magnet for so-called electrosensitives, and the locals aren’t thrilled to have them.

The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”

The flawed data on safety equipment.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

The King of Rwanda is 76 years old, 7 feet 2 inches tall, and lives on public assistance in a small apartment in Virginia.

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?

Just days after suffering a concussion, a 17-year-old fullback hangs himself. Inside his family’s journey to learn if a brain injury is to blame.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

A profile of the eccentric Gene Weingarten, the only person to twice win the Pulitzer for feature writing.

Reagan’s would-be assassin, 30 years later.

Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.