Special Investigations

At Fivemile Tank, a watering hole in the bleak desert of West Texas, two men pulled up in a truck. One aimed a gun into the brush.

Some of his co-defendants were exonerated. Others died behind bars. Of four death sentences, only Hooper’s remains. Now he’s up for execution.

Documents obtained by The Intercept reveal disturbing biosafety lapses and troubling gaps in oversight by government agencies.

A researcher working with the 1918 flu virus was bit by an infected ferret and sent home to quarantine.

By the time a researcher who pricked her finger in Missouri reported the accident, she was already sick.

Under the guise of counterterrorism, the government is accelerating pressure on social media companies to crack down on speech the feds deem disinformation.

The open consumption of cannabis stops at Israel’s separation wall, beyond which Palestinians are denied many of their most basic rights.

Seven years after a U.S.-planned airstrike on Hawija killed at least 85 civilians, a token of compensation has delivered little or no help to survivors.

Hacked emails from a Russian law firm reveal Yevgeny Prigozhin’s approach to fighting sanctions — and journalists.

The U.S. appears reluctant to set a precedent that would highlight how President George W. Bush avoided trial for invading Iraq.