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The air in the Appalachian Mountains has grown heavy with a mystery that refuses to fade. Three years ago, Alex Thorne, an experienced hiker and wilderness photographer, stepped into the fog and never came back. At first, it was treated like any other missing-person case — a hiker lost in the woods, perhaps caught in bad weather, or worse, a fall. But time has a way of reshaping stories.What began as a ... Read more

When Zohran Mamdani made history this week by becoming the first South Asian mayor of New York, he quoted one of modern India’s founding fathers in his acceptance speech and walked off the stage to the sounds of a thumping Bollywood banger. The Muslim son of Indian-origin immigrants, the win is a powerful rebuke of US President Donald Trump, who has sought to drastically curb immigration to the United States, and ... Read more

In the autumn of 2008, Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush, broke from the Republican Party and endorsed the Democratic nominee for President, Barack Obama. It had been a brutal summer of electoral warfare. Rumors that Obama was Muslim swirled, becoming a significant aspect of the media coverage of his campaign. A group working with his opponent, John McCain, called people in swing states, planted ... Read more

For seven long years, her name was a whisper.A mystery that moved like fog through the valleys, over dinner tables, through police briefings that ended with the same phrase — “No new evidence.” She was there, and then she wasn’t.A woman who disappeared alone in 2007, swallowed by silence and time. They searched the woods, the mountains, the open skies — but the lake that guarded the area refused to speak.It ... Read more

It began like every other field trip — backpacks full of snacks, phones buzzing with music, laughter echoing through the pines.But by sunset, what was supposed to be a weekend adventure had turned into one of the darkest mysteries the region had ever seen. A group of six teenagers — friends since childhood — vanished deep within the Sierra del Monte forest, leaving behind only a trail of footprints that led ... Read more