A quarter century has passed since the infamous beating of Rodney King. In the months before King's death, he was profiled by Kurt Streeter, who portrays a man still very much haunted by the past.

The first installment in a five-part investigative series from CNN Money about one of the world's longest-running cons. Over the past two decades, vulnerable people have been duped out of hundreds of millions of dollars by a French psychic named Maria Duval. Part two of the series is  also online, and the third installment will be available on Thursday.

Our favorite stories of the week, featuring BuzzFeed, Toronto Life, Catapult, BBC, and Complex.

She charges $850 an hour, often gets followed by TMZ, and has handled the separations of everyone from Britney Spears to Stevie Wonder.

The account of a Ugandan teen wrongly accused of two murders, and the lawyer who cleared his name.

The author retraces her birth mother's footsteps through a bygone Manhattan.

There have long been rumors that Bob Dylan had stashed away an extensive archive, but even die-hard Dylanologists couldn't have dreamed up anything like the 6,000-piece private trove of his work recently acquired by a group of institutions in Oklahoma. The archives hold untold insight into the songwriter’s work, but George B. Kaiser—the driving force behind the acquisition—hopes they have the power to do something much bigger: make Tulsa cool.