Special Reports

Five years ago, many investors and executives would have politely told Jill Atkins to buzz off.

The avuncular man in the TV ad has an urgent-sounding message from his employer, the oil giant Chevron Corp.

Behind the corporate battle for French media company Lagardere, there's a political tug-of-war involving the country's richest man, a media magnate and President Emmanuel Macron.

By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.

By Matt Spetalnick, Daphne Psaledakis, Humeyra Pamuk and Trevor Hunnicutt

Venezuelan tax offices stand deserted, classrooms lack teachers, and utility bills go uncollected, as meager civil servant salaries drive chronic absenteeism and resignations in the hundreds of thousands.

A stroll down Stockholm's longest street that takes its name from the mythical Valhalla, where Norse gods feast and fight until doomsday, gives a hint of the battle today's power grids face to keep pace with government goals to electrify transport.

After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoros, Israel Martinez abandoned his hopes of seeking asylum in the United States.

Francisco Belisario, a Venezuelan mayor, retired general and member of the ruling Socialist party, had enough. His loudest local critic had accused him of bungling the response to the coronavirus outbreak and other big problems.