Amber Hall

An attorney specializing in rape and sexual abuse says that internal politics played an important role in why Cosby was arraigned this week. 

The El Paso Community College Forensic Speech and Debate Team is vibrant, active, and engaged.

The place that you call home has a lot to do with your impact on the environment. 

Jennell Benson, a UT Austin student and president of the black student alliance, says colleges must move beyond affirmative action for an honest discussion about race.  

As affirmative action returns to the Supreme Court, Columbia University's Lee Bollinger stands in support of race-based admissions.

As the Paris attacks show, ISIS appears to be moving toward a strategy of coordinated assaults that serve to extend the terrorist group's barbaric and violent global reach.

Veterans groups like the American Legion and VFW are struggling to attract vets who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Combined, they have lost more than a million members in recent years.

Nearly 50,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Two veterans share their stories here.

Over the next three days, 6,000 people will be released from federal prisons. Some will go to waiting families, others will go to treatment centers, and many others will be on their own.

What happens when you release 18,000 offenders back into one state? Not much. 

Everything's bigger in Texas, including the number of federal prisoners set to be released under new guidelines. Many have lauded the move, but at least one sheriff is leery.

A WNYC investigation finds that the public's access to police personnel records—including disciplinary files—varies widely from state to state. 

Dismayed by his state's "campus carry" law, Daniel Hamermesh is giving up his gig as a college professor at UT Austin.

How do you prevent a mass school shooting? One high school in Indiana thinks they have the answer, and it isn't gun control. 

After weighing whether or not to change course for the first time in nine years, the Federal Reserve announced Thursday that it is keeping its benchmark interest rate at or near zero.

For the first time, the number of deaths of children under the age of five has dipped below 6 million—a number that hovered around 12.7 million per year in 1990.