Thousands of immigrants from India have crossed into the United States illegally at the southern tip of Texas in the last year, part of a mysterious and rapidly growing human smuggling pipeline that is backing up court dockets, filling detention centers and triggering investigations.
Oleg Khintsagov left his apartment in southern Russia in February 2006 with 80 grams of highly enriched uranium stuffed in his pocket and a plan to make a million dollars.
Raw uranium goes through a series of steps to become enriched uranium, used to fuel either in a nuclear power plant or in a bomb. Here is a step-by-step introduction to the “nuclear fuel cycle.”
When South African police raided the warehouse of a company called Tradefin Engineering, a manufacturer of pipes and valves, in September 2004, they discovered stacks of shipping containers eleven stories hi
Associate reporter James Sandler investigates the smuggling of AIDS drugs from the United States into South Africa, where one in nine people now lives with HIV. The drugs are unavailable in South Africa because of their high cost and lingering opposition from the government. This story follows one smuggler's journey from San Francisco as she delivers the drugs to South African rape victims.
