Ellen Frankman

Earlier this year, Hawaii began overhauling its disaster preparedness and nuclear contingency plans as it confronts the reality of a more hostile North Korea.

In Wayne County, Georgia, a landfill was set to be filled with toxic coal ash on a daily basis. The local newspaper and people fought back to stop the dumping.

A federal court ruled that the Trump administration improperly suspended an Obama-era rule on methane emissions. This could be the first of many legal challenges for the current EPA.

Yemen faces an alarming cholera outbreak in the midst of an ongoing civil war.

Brazil's Congress will decide the fate of President Michel Temer, the first sitting president in almost three decades to face criminal charges. 

President Trump will visit Florida today. He's expected to announce a rollback of the Obama Administration's Cuba policy.

In the aftermath of the Congressional baseball practice shooting, the political views of the shooter have become the focus. But James T. Hodgkinson had a history of violence.

After being held in a North Korean prison for 17 months, Otto Warmbier was released on Tuesday. But there are three other Americans currently being held by the state.

Jerry Hatfield was convicted in 1977 of killing a woman in Bay City, Texas. His conviction was reversed a few years later, but he was just set free this week. 

Muskegon County, Michigan is fighting to become a healthier community.

Bipartisan criminal justice reform seemed to be within reach, and then the 2016 election happened. While the issue hasn't gone away, progress is now sitting idle.

If accepted, the pipeline will carry the oil across Ojibwe tribal lands. Tribal groups are worried about oil spills, and environmental groups are also concerned.

New reports show that as soon as President Trump took office, he and his administration moved quickly to try to lift economic sanctions and normalize relations with Russia.   

It's been 100 years since the first piece of commercial jazz was recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

After Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a look at the future of the climate change fight with a former EPA administrator, and how businesses are approaching it.

Shootings and an explosion erupted at a casino resort in Manila on Thursday. A group tracking extremism said a Filipino operative of ISIS claimed “lone wolf soldiers” were responsible.

Following the fatal stabbings in Portland, the city is grappling with the question of whether or not it should close down a "Trump free speech rally," and an anti-Muslim protest.

Though it's often associated with liberalism and tolerance, the city remains more than 70 percent white, and has a long history of racial strife and segregation.

In 2017 alone, more than 59,000 migrants and refugees have risked their lives to reach Europe. Of those that have attempted the journey, an estimated 1,500 are feared drowned.

Early exit polls suggested that Donald Trump won 52 percent of the Catholic vote over Hillary Clinton, though later polling suggested that the split may have been closer.