Ellen Frankman

Record-breaking rainfall slammed Houston earlier this week — at least seven people were killed in flash floods, and Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of emergency.

One Bruce Springsteen track released more than three decades ago captures the economic and cultural atmosphere of this year's election.

A new book examines blocks in the negotiations process.

After legislators delivered a number of impassioned speeches on Sunday, the Brazilian Parliament voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.

Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich caught up with Senator Harry Reid this week to discuss his career, the election, and the Republicans holding up the Supreme Court nominee.

Christine Todd Whitman was governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001. She has watched the Republican Party change before her eyes, and she doesn't like what she is seeing.

In the mid 1950s, General Motors introduced the Damsels of Design, an all female design team that made a lasting impact on the automobile industry.

The Governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, is facing impeachment after allegations that he had an adulterous affair.

Can the U.S. break through the Islamic State's encryption network? Find out what a cyber war against ISIS would look like.

Few individuals have gotten close enough to the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Jurgen Todenhofer is one of them. He embedded with ISIS for 10 days in December of 2014.  

Between Greece's debt problems, the migrant crisis, and a potential Brexit, Europe's economic prospects look bleak, but potentially still manageable. 

On Monday, the U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new plan to stop corporate inversions — the practice of a relocating official business headquarters overseas to avoid American taxes.

California and New York plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. A former economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden explains what constitutes a living wage today.

The Democratic race is heating up in New York weeks ahead of the state primary, as Clinton and Sanders attempt to show who the true New Yorker is in the polls. 

This week, the Food and Drug Administration waded into controversial territory by relaxing access for a medication that induces abortion.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel named Eddie Johnson as the new chief of the Chicago Police department. But the reform efforts come as the city's murder rates are up 84 percent in 2016. 

A controversial ruling from a UN commission earlier this week extended the maritime territory of Argentina, which now includes the long-disputed Falkland Islands. 

The Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance in northern California is now offering a new kind of solution for PTSD or chronic pain: Medical marijuana that's grown on site and distributed for free.

Kim Ghattas has spent much of her career covering the Middle East. Now she's covering the Hillary Clinton campaign, and provides an outsider perspective on the 2016 election.

Blackwater has done America's dirty work on and off battlefields for more than a decade.  Now a new Intercept investigation claims that the DOJ is ready to go after founder Erik Prince.