Hanging Judges When Donald Trump attacks the integrity of judges hearing cases against him, his followers often respond with posts urging that the jurists be beaten, tortured and killed. Full Story May 14, 2024
The Balkan Connection Balkan traffickers have mastered the logistics of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe, authorities say. On land and sea, police are scrambling to keep pace. Full Story May 02, 2024
Starving in Sudan Nearly 5 million people are one step from famine as the country has been devastated by war. Aid officials say warring parties are blocking humanitarian relief. Full Story April 30, 2024
OnlyFans Exposed OnlyFans makes amateur porn creators rich. It has also faced 100-plus complaints of nonconsensual porn–including a woman who says her rape was filmed and sold. Full Story March 13, 2024
Hanging Judges Judges involved in Trump cases face an unprecedented wave of threats following the ex-president’s attacks on judges as corrupt and biased. Full Story February 29, 2024
Ethiopia’s Quiet Crackdown How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency in the largest region, Oromiya. Full Story February 23, 2024
Putin’s war Reuters traced one Russian officer class through training to the Ukraine battlefield, where some died and some were decorated. Full Story January 17, 2024
Ukraine’s lost children How Russia's removal of children from Ukraine is supported by a vast machinery to deport, house and re-educate. Reuters traces the journeys of two groups of kids. Full Story January 11, 2024
Death in Darfur The Masalit people are being driven from Sudan's Darfur region in a campaign of bombing and massacres. Reuters has identified 6 key commanders in the violence. Full Story December 28, 2023
Stunning Truths Axon CEO Rick Smith says his Taser business was inspired by the shooting deaths of two friends – a misrepresentation that fits a company pattern. Full Story December 27, 2023
Steered Wrong Tesla records reveal the automaker has long known far more about the extent of defects than it has disclosed to consumers and safety regulators. Full Story December 20, 2023
'Shoot the Boys' Over 40 mothers from Sudan’s Masalit tribe say their children, mostly boys, were shot, beaten or knifed to death by RSF paramilitary and allied Arab militias. Full Story December 15, 2023
Countdown to ‘Q-day’ Quantum computing could shred the encryption that guards digital information. Great powers are sprinting to master this technology to crack their adversaries’ codes. Full Story December 14, 2023
Heirs of Power Despite losing vast amounts of wealth tied to slavery, forebears of three U.S. lawmakers found ways to rebuild and pass down power, often by subjugating Black people. Full Story December 13, 2023
Arming Mexico's Cartels A single sniper rifle led investigators to a syndicate deep in the United States that armed Mexico’s fentanyl-trafficking Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Full Story December 09, 2023
Drug Money Drugmaker Novo Nordisk paid U.S. medical professionals at least $25.8 million over a decade in fees and expenses related to its weight-loss drugs, a Reuters analysis found. Full Story December 01, 2023
Issam Abdallah An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six reporters in Lebanon on Oct. 13 by firing two shells in quick succession from Israel while the journalists were filming cross-border shelling, a Reuters investigation has found. Full Story December 07, 2023
Slavery’s Descendants The story of a merchant whose descendants include King Charles and minister Jeremy Hunt illuminates the UK slavery economy–and how it shaped American slavery. Full Story November 24, 2023
Targeted for Rape Rape is widespread amid the war in Sudan. Young women from the ethnic-African Masalit tribe describe being sexually assaulted by RSF and Arab militia forces. Full Story November 30, 2023
Love-bombing Manila America needs the Philippines on its side as tensions with China rise. Reuters got inside the U.S. 'love-bombing' of its former colony. Full Story November 29, 2023
The Purge of the Masalit Arab-led RSF forces have pressed ahead with the expulsion of the ethnic-African Masalit tribe in Darfur. Survivors described large-scale killings. Full Story November 22, 2023
Pig Butchering Fraudulent crypto investment schemes directed from Asia known as “pig butchering” have become a global billion-dollar industry. But little is known about those who benefit. Full Story November 23, 2023
Crash Course Elon Musk promised better – even “revolutionary” – car insurance. but customers told Reuters they waited months for claim payments, or even return calls. Full Story November 21, 2023
Life and Death in Gaza At a Gaza hospital, a midwife brings life and volunteers tend the dead. Full Story November 18, 2023
Politics of Violence “Grab-bag” extremists, a new breed of self-made radical, are driving the deadliest wave of political violence in the United States in half a century. Full Story November 15, 2023
Unsafe Space Reuters documented more than 600 workplace injuries at SpaceX. Employees say they’re paying the price for Elon Musk’s push to reach Mars at breakneck speed. Full Story November 10, 2023
Hunted by Hamas Survivors recount their life-and-death struggle at Be’eri, a main target in the Hamas assault on Oct. 7 that has set off a major war. Full Story November 03, 2023
Race in Cosmetics More than 7,000 lawsuits have been filed against cosmetic companies claiming the chemicals in hair relaxers increased the risk of uterine cancer. The companies deny the allegations and say their products are safe. Full Story November 04, 2023
Nightmare in Nigeria Reuters and Bellingcat analysed rare video footage of a detainee summarily slain by a military gunman on the day of a battle against insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast. Full Story November 01, 2023
The Bat Lands A recent outbreak of the deadly Nipah bat virus in India shows why health leaders want new global measures to prevent viruses jumping from animals to people. Full Story October 30, 2023
Caught in the Middle Turkish aircraft and drones are striking mainly Kurdish areas of Iraq and Syria with increasing frequency, Reuters data analysis shows. Civilians are suffering. Full Story October 10, 2023
American Dreams Two families, one enslaved by the other. In many ways, their journeys since emancipation illustrate a broader truth about U.S. history: the legacy of slavery. Full Story October 04, 2023
The Slaughter of El Geneina In West Darfur, the ethnic-African Masalit faced weeks of targeted attacks by the RSF and Arab militias. At least 1,000 bodies were buried in Al Ghabat cemetery. Full Story September 22, 2023
Eagle and Dragon The U.S. Navy is carrying out the biggest overhaul of its top-secret undersea surveillance network since the end of the Cold War in an effort to contain the threat of China’s submarines. Beijing has similar plans of its own. Full Story September 21, 2023
Death by the Dose Indian parents whose children died after taking toxic syrups want justice. Some of the drugmakers haven’t shown they even tested their products. Full Story September 13, 2023
Rise of the Robots Washington and Beijing are in a contest to develop AI-controlled weapons that will operate autonomously. The outcome could decide the global balance of power. Full Story September 08, 2023
War of Attrition Excerpts from 17 phone calls placed in early July by Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine - and intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence services - show them complaining about poor equipment and heavy losses. Full Story September 05, 2023
Culture Shock Inside Axon, the maker of Taser electroshock guns, workers take hits from the company’s weapons or get inked with its logos. Axon says it’s all voluntary. Full Story August 30, 2023
Narcos Inc How drug cartels evade authorities by using money transfers popular with migrant workers to send their earnings back to Mexico. Full Story August 18, 2023
Moon Over Paraguay Self-professed messiah Sun Myung Moon bought land in Paraguay 25 years ago, hoping to create an oasis for followers. Now it's hub for global drug trafficking. Full Story August 10, 2023
Politics of Violence Reuters reporters found 213 cases of political violence since Jan. 6, 2021, adding to evidence of the biggest rise in U.S. political violence since the 1970s. Full Story August 09, 2023