Two senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday's attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told the BBC. It remains unclear how they were released or if other ...

Dozens of serial killers have terrorized American communities over the decades, from H. H. Holmes becoming “the Beast of Chicago” in the 19th century to “the Hillside Stranglers” inciting fear across ...

Original music by Martin D. FowlerMarion Lozano and Dan Powell Engineered by Phoebe Wang When the reporter Dyan Neary attended a county commissioners’ meeting in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, she ...

Throughout Central Europe, 16th-century noblewoman Elizabeth Báthory is infamous for torture and murder. But was she really as evil as history tells it? Irretrievably mired in myth and speculation, ...

It once seemed that justice for the 9/11 plotters was close at hand. “They will be brought to New York — to New York — to answer for their alleged crimes,” then-Attorney General Eric Holder said ...

In the winter of 2021, “Saturday Night Live” spoofed the true-crime industrial complex with a musical number called “Murder Show.” The sketch sends up the consumption of spectacular depravity as an ...

President Donald Trump has said he would consider pardoning the men convicted in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Whitmer has said she hopes Trump doesn't move ahead with the pardons.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said in a new interview that President Trump told her he would not pardon those convicted of a failed plot to kidnap her in 2020. “Well, I think anything short of ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

Bambu Lab's latest flagship 3D printer does a whole lot more than 3D printing for serious makers, and promises to be good at every one of its tasks. The H2D desktop printer can print using two ...

Serial killers do not act randomly; they respond to deeply embedded neural scripts formed through early imprinting and reinforced by symbolic releasers. Ethologists like Konrad Lorenz and Niko ...