Ellen Frankman

According to a report from Columbia's Community College Research Center, one of the biggest hurdles facing community college students is transfer to bachelor degree programs.

On Thursday, a federal judge ordered that a video of another police shooting in Chicago be released. The footage captures a white officer shooting a black teen.

In her new memoir, "A Sky the Color of Chaos," author M.J. Fievre chronicles the turmoil of her childhood, political unrest, and the deeply beautiful qualities of Haiti.

The titanosaurus—the largest dinosaur to ever walk the planet—is getting a second life at the American Natural History Museum in New York.

On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Al Jazeera America (AJAM) gathered employees to inform that the effective April of this year, AJAM TV and digital content would no longer exist.

President Obama's last State of the Union address was billed by the administration as "non-traditional." But was it really so different?

The U.S. Supreme Court has invalidated a Florida death penalty law that gives judges—not juries—a large role in deciding the fate of inmates involved in capital punishment cases.

The art of con men, and of confidence men that came before them, is rooted in belief, which is why it's so important to human history, one author says. 

A major natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon, near the Los Angeles suburb Porter Ranch, has reportedly released over 80,000 metric tons of methane into the atmosphere.

Attacks by a group of men, some of whom were asylum seekers, on women in Cologne, Germany, highlights concerns about how best to integrate predominantly-male refugees into Europe.

Would America have a different set of gun laws if graphic images of gun violence were circulated across televisions screens and on the covers of newspapers?

On the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, a filmmaker tells the story of revisiting tapes he had of staffers before the attack, to create a new documentary now out in Europe.

In Flint, Michigan, 18 months of toxic levels of lead in the water have led the governor to declare a state of emergency, as well as a federal investigation. 

Takeaway Host John Hockenberry sat down the Gerard Araud, French Ambassador to the United States, to discuss the year behind France and the year ahead.

Three years ago, the process of disenrollment began for more than 300 members of the Nooksack Native American tribe in Washington, in what members refer to as tribal identity theft.

As Trump climbs in the polls, the GOP establishment remains largely unsettled. But they had the same panic when Reagan ran in 1976 and again in 1980.

Both the Republican and Democratic parties are in the big data game. Find out how political data is captured, what is known about voters like you, and how your information is used.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, former nuclear negotiator for Iran who is now a research scholar at Princeton University says, Iran must not be forgotten as a key player in the talks.

Gaida's music mixes traditional Arabic sounds with American jazz and folk music. She says performing allows her to connect with the people and places she loves in Syria.

Since 9/11, the U.S. Treasury has developed a counter-terrorism financing strategy, but the wealth of ISIS presents new challenges not present with Al Qaeda.