March 21st, 1980, 9:30 in the evening, South Philadelphia. Angelo Bruno, 69 years old, boss of the Philadelphia crime family for 21 years, pulled his car up to 934 Snyder Avenue, his home, his fortress. His driver, Johnny Stanfa, lit a cigarette. Bruno cracked the passenger window. A man stepped out of the shadows with…
The Las Vegas Strip just recorded 11 consecutive months of declining visitation. 400,000 fewer people showed up in June alone. Meanwhile, 270 mi south, a tiny desert town sitting on the banks of the Colorado River is quietly posting numbers that should make every MGM executive lose sleep at night. Nobody in…
= It is the most expensive building in Australian history. 75 stories of black glass and steel pierce the Sydney skyline like a shard of obsidian. It cost $4 billion. But there is a problem. It cannot do the one thing it was built to do. This is Crown Sydney, a casino tower…
January 13th, 1947. A quiet apartment in Brooklyn, an old man, 69 years old, sat in a chair and died of natural causes. No bullets, no bombs, no federal indictment, just an old man with thin hair, sunken cheeks, and hands that had once held the most feared name in New York…
The 30th of January 1933, Germany. Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany and the Nazi regime quickly begins to restrict the civil and human rights of the Jews and other individuals deemed to be “enemies of the state,” and opens the first concentration camp – Dachau – situated near Munich. Among those arrested are…
Hollywood has always shown native people dying in epic battles or as wise elders surrounded by respect. But the real story is very different. Leaders were betrayed by those who promised peace, died from diseases brought in from outside or ended up forgotten on reservations without food. There’s nothing romantic here. Now you’re going to…
In the shadows of the top secret interrogation rooms at Trent Park in 1944, British intelligence experts realized they were not merely facing a prisoner of war, but a living embodiment of Nazi ideology. He was unrepentant and unwavering even as his empire collapsed under the weight of more than 160,000 Allied troops who had…
The young journalist set down her tape recorder on the bar counter and smiled with barely concealed condescension. “That’s sweet,” she said, patting the shoulder of the man sitting beside her. “A lot of amateur boxers think they have a unique style, but real champions spend decades developing their technique. It’s not something you just…
This story is based on accounts shared by wedding guests and eyewitnesses. The sound of ambulance sirens cut through the wedding music, the flashing red and blue lights reflecting off the crystal chandeliers of the luxury ballroom. [screaming] Guests were standing, some with phones out recording, others trying to see what had happened. All of…
Frank Sinatra told Ali, “Boxers aren’t artists.” Ali’s four-word response ended the dinner. Frank Sinatra had been the chairman of the board for 30 years. He had defined what it meant to be an artist in America. The voice, the phrasing, the specific genius of a man who turned a song into something that reached…
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