Ellen Frankman

Former Vice President Al Gore calls for action against climate change from his position as chairman of the Climate Reality Project. He will host a global day of action later this week. 

After all the problems with police this past year, a town in Florida is considering the question: What if we were to get rid of police entirely? 

During his first press conference as speaker of the House, Paul Ryan said he was open to attaching new policies to the budget before the December 11 deadline. 

Over the last six years, at least 1,000 police officers across 41 states were stripped of their badges for sexual misconduct. But those numbers tell only one part of the story. 

Yesterday was John Boehner's last day of his 25-year career in Congress. The Takeaway reflects on his best and worst moments. 

One Afghan presidential advisor sees economic opportunity in transportation, while the inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction sees a history of economic waste.

Whether it's Donald Trump's New York honk or Ted Cruz's Texas twang, politicians often play up or manipulate their accents for a national audience.

A group of 130 police leaders will meet with President Obama today to discuss their plans to end the systems of mass incarceration in their respective districts. 

The death of one New York man has reignited a debate over whether a solitary life in modern America is a lonely life.

The longest war in U.S. history is sending American troops back to Afghanistan for their third, fourth, or fifth tours.

With help from a whistle-blower, The Intercept has published a cache of secret documents on the U.S. drone program. Here's how the government's use of drones has changed over time.

President Obama is reversing his long standing pledge to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by the end of his second term. 

A number of cases, most recently in Milwaukee, are claiming that gun sellers must be held liable for damages of guns sold illegally. 

A physician by trade, and an explorer by nature, Gavin Francis charts the anatomy of the human body through a series of vignettes published in his new book.

The chaos on the ground in Syria is being matched by the chaos in the air over the country.

"The War Reporter" captures the way reporting used to be, with the story of Tom Layne, a TV correspondent whose life falls apart while reporting from Sarajevo in the 90s.

With a big budget deal in the works between President Obama and congressional leaders, Congress has a chance to change the ban on CDC research into gun related health issues.

Today, U.S. Commerce Sec. Penny Pritzker lands in Cuba. Carlos Gutierrez, former secretary of commerce under President George W. Bush, says the time for talking trade with Cuba is now.

After years of negotiations, the Obama Administration announced Monday that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal had been reached. But the deal is not without scrutiny.

New York is one of 30 states investigating possibilities of consumer fraud and environmental violations of Volkswagen's environmental deceptions.