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After a decade of fighting the most powerful man in daytime television, Holly Hallstrom had come to the end of her road. Cresting a hilltop deep in California’s wine country, Hallstrom clutched
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Content warning: This article includes scenes of physical and sexual harassment and assault. With additional reporting by Meghan Herbst. The trouble in Antarctica started in Boston. It was August 1999, and Stanford
Just after dark, the most wanted man on Reddit slipped into his secret lair: a storage locker behind a Gold’s Gym in Venice, California. “I’ve got another storage unit full of merch,”
The first time in eight years that Mario Rosemond heard his name, it filled him with terror. Almost as much as the men surrounding him with machine guns. It was March 2019,
WHEN, NOT IF, ROBOTS DESTROY humanity in the next few decades, they won’t resemble the Terminator, says Eliezer Yudkowsky, the leading pioneer of artificial intelligence who now believes we’re doomed. Yudkowsky is
My last conversation with Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed and elusive novelist who died last week at 89, came as unexpectedly as the first. Over six decades of winning every major literary award,
On October 4, 2018, a young Frenchman named Louis came home from work to find the window in his front door smashed. A practical-minded 20-year-old with short dark hair, he figured it
It’s a bustling night in Las Vegas, and Sugar Ray Leonard is ready for the main event. In his suite high above the Strip, the legendary boxer, boyish and ebullient at 66,
I. THE SURFERS AND THE BOATMAN Five years ago, Ratu “Jona” Joseva, a 32-year-old Indigenous Fijian boat taximan, and two Aussie lifelong surfing bros, Navrin Fox and Woody Jack, bought an overgrown