The Booster

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is rapidly remaking the tip of South Texas. Its fast growth, criticized by some locals as unfair and unchecked, is also transforming campaign coffers, business deals and the personal finances of some local officials. Full Story

September 20, 2024

Politics of Fear

Trump fan targets MAGA foes with menace – and gets away with it. Full Story

September 19, 2024

A Cut of the Action

Nonprofit forestry certifiers are signing off on the destruction of vast swaths older Canadian woodlands that are critical to containing climate change, Reuters found. Full Story

September 07, 2024

The MAGA Purge

As Trump enters the final stretch of the presidential campaign, he’s purged his party of lawmakers and officials deemed as disloyal. Full Story

August 16, 2024

Toxic Twist

Companies and others responsible for some of America's most toxic waste sites are using a federal health agency’s faulty reports to save money on cleanups, defend against lawsuits and deny victims compensation. Full Story

August 07, 2024

Debt Spiral

Credit ratings were meant to help sub-Saharan countries tap global investors to fund much-needed development. But low scores, heavy borrowing and bad luck have left many struggling with crushing bond debt. Full Story

August 01, 2024

OnlyFans Exposed

Many top porn stars on OnlyFans hire ‘chatters’ to impersonate them online. These impostors have boosted the site's growth – but some subscribers call it fraud. Full Story

July 30, 2024

Fentanyl Express: The Supply Chain

At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door. They’re upending the global narcotics trade. Full Story

July 26, 2024

Outgunned

The U.S. Army and NATO made key strategic, funding and production mistakes that led to shortages of a pivotal weapon Ukraine needs to thwart Russia’s advances. Full Story

July 19, 2024

Bankruptcy Battle

J&J is feuding with lawyers opposing its plan to settle talc lawsuits in bankruptcy. Caught in the crossfire are the women alleging J&J products cause cancer. Full Story

July 08, 2024

Doubling Down

Amid a U.S. boom in betting online, the European companies behind FanDuel and BetMGM are using features in America that they dropped in Britain after acknowledging them as risks to gamblers. Full Story

July 03, 2024

OnlyFans Exposed

OnlyFans says it’s strictly adults-only. But Reuters found numerous complaints in police and court files of explicit child content hosted on the site. Full Story

July 02, 2024

Yurri’s stand

In the devastated village of Dolyna, Yurii maintains a lonely vigil. There were 500 residents living here – until the Russians came. Now there are a handful. Full Story

June 27, 2024

Wives Out

Foxconn, the tech manufacturer that builds devices for Apple, has routinely excluded married women from iPhone assembly jobs at its plant in southern India. Full Story

June 25, 2024

New migrant smuggling routes

Migrants from outside Latin America are paying hefty fees to reach the southwest border. US officials say Nicaragua is a key transit point. Full Story

June 21, 2024

Growing graveyards

Reuters identified 14 graveyards that are growing fast in Sudan's war-torn Darfur area. The cemeteries are “canaries in the coal mine” of a looming famine. Full Story

June 20, 2024

War of Words

The U.S. military ran a covert propaganda program to undermine China’s Sinovac vaccine during the pandemic. Experts say it endangered lives for political gain. Full Story

June 14, 2024

Tips

Gaza Doctors Killed

Health workers killed in the Gaza war have included more than 50 highly qualified specialists; doctors who strived for decades to create a health system for a Palestinian state. Full Story

June 04, 2024

‘Trump’s Army’

The Proud Boys say recruitment is growing and they’re ready to serve again as Donald Trump's unofficial protection force. Full Story

June 03, 2024

Fight, Pray, Endure

As Russia takes new ground in Ukraine’s east, soldiers on the front line talk of exhaustion, a perilous shortage of munitions and personal loss. Full Story

May 29, 2024

South Africa Shuts Door

A hijacked block. A deadly fire. A bleak aftermath. Thirty years after end of apartheid, many African arrivals meet harsher side of 'Rainbow Nation'. Full Story

May 23, 2024

Climate Cash, With Strings Attached

Wealthy countries sent climate funding to the developing world in recent years with interest rates or strings attached that benefited the donor nations, a Reuters data analysis found. Full Story

May 22, 2024

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