At a diner in Virginia Beach, David Roberts ate his eggs in quick, restless bites. His fork clattered against the plate. A bit of food landed on his shirt.David was first tested at four, but it took more than two years, and multiple rounds of testing, before doctors said the word “autism.”He’s 25 now, but for most of his time, the world was too loud. He couldn’t handle more than 90 minutes of noise or crowds. So David’s mother, Becky Roberts, kept him home, teaching him from kindergarten to 12th...

Ammie Pascua’s earliest memories of pregnancy weren’t her own. They were of her mother’s bitterness and resentment.Growing up, Pascua often overheard her mother describe the most dangerous ways she had tried to end her pregnancy — taking drugs, smoking heavily, even jumping off curbs.Again and again, her mother muttered that keeping Pascua had been a mistake and that she should never have been born.“The only context I had for these conversations was: ‘This is a terrible, bad thing. I’m a terribl...

It seemed an implausible scenario for a case of mistaken identity: a college student on a road trip arrested for human smuggling. 

On June 9, 2024, Ziming Wang, a 23-year-old Los Angeles college student with 20,000 followers on TikTok, excitedly packed his car for a road trip with his girlfriend and their three hamsters. Their destination? A cross-country adventure that would take them from San Diego to New York City, with stops in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Just as he hit the highway, however,...

Federal regulators on Tuesday will unveil one of the most sweeping safety reforms in American coal mining in decades after long debate over the plan that's...

Moris Esmelis Campos-Chaves sat in the plaintiff’s seat in the Supreme Court chamber on a cold, gloomy day in early January. It was a moment the dark-skinned, five-foot-ten gardener had been waiting for for nineteen years. Campos-Chaves entered the U.S. illegally in 2005 with his wife and two of his U.S.-born children by wading across the Rio Grande near Laredo. The family had fled violence in El Salvador, according to his lawyer, Raed Gonzalez, and Campos-Chaves had worked in the U.S. for nearl