The war in Iran cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $113.3 billion over 108 days. See the full tracker and methodology.

It took 139 years to understand what caused the mysterious “Angel’s Glow” at the Battle of Shiloh.

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Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

An ongoing reporting project to uncover the roles and whereabouts of the key officials who powered President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal reign in Syria.