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The NFL's Sydney Seau Problem
Junior Seau's daughter says the focus of her dad's induction into the NFL Hall of Fame this weekend should be on his time as a player, not brain disease. But the issue will be hard to ignore.
August 7, 2015
Milwaukee Archdiocese Offers Settlement For Victims of Clergy Sex Abuse
A proposed settlement between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and hundreds of alleged victims would end one of the largest cases to emerge from the clergy abuse crisis.
August 5, 2015
Coming in August on FRONTLINE: Guns, Retirement and Chicken
We'll bring you encore presentations of three popular FRONTLINE documentaries.
August 4, 2015
After Mullah Omar, What Comes Next For the Taliban?
News of Mullah Omar's death comes at a time when the Taliban faces internal power struggles and increased factionalism, even as it continues its brutal and deadly fight against the Afghan government.
July 30, 2015
Human Trafficking: A Crime Hard to Track Proves Harder to Fight
With human trafficking generating an estimated $150 billion each year in illegal profits, the trafficking in persons has become one of the fastest growing criminal industries worldwide.
July 29, 2015
The Staggering Death Toll of Mexico's Drug War
In the last seven years, killings in Mexico have steadily, if quietly, outpaced the number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
July 27, 2015
New Photos Show Bush Administration Reaction to 9/11 Attacks
The never-before-released images, taken by Vice President Cheney's staff photographer, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by FRONTLINE.
July 24, 2015
Locked In a Garage with One of "El Chapo" Guzmán’s Meth Traffickers
In their quest to find and interview the drug kingpin known as "El Chapo," two filmmakers found themselves locked in a garage with a meth trafficker.
July 21, 2015
Meet the Mother of "El Chapo": "Even as a Little Child, He Had Ambitions"
“I remember he had a lot of paper money — little notes of 50’s and 5’s,” the drug kingpin's mother told FRONTLINE in a rare on-camera interview prior to her son's 2014 arrest. "He’d count and recount them, then tie them up in little piles."
July 17, 2015
Why's It Taking So Long to Close Guantanamo?
President Obama has had a great summer. But one of the first items he vowed to check off as president remains undone: closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.
July 16, 2015
A Witness to Slavery: Edward Watts on Making "Escaping ISIS"
"I've covered a lot of bad and terrible stories, and this is just on a different scale," says filmmaker Edward Watts of the violence being committed by ISIS against women.
July 14, 2015