Oliver Lazarus

The Obama administration announced its first direct action against Russia following the 2016 election - it's arguably the largest response to a state-sponsored cyberattack. 

Former Senator George Mitchell, who once served as the U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, discusses what went wrong in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. 

A total of 61 people were shot in Chicago over the holiday weekend, with seven deaths on Christmas day alone. 

Massive burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused major respiratory problems in veterans, but the U.S. government refuses to account for them. 

When she was sworn into the position in September, Dr. Carla Hayden became the first woman and the first African-American to lead the Library of Congress.

In 93 percent of cases, the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency wrongfully accused residents of insurance frauds, forcing them off benefits, and levying fines against them. 

Anthony Ray Hinton spent nearly three decades in a 5-foot by 7-foot cell, waiting for his execution day. After a 16-year fight by the Equal Justice Initiative, he was finally released. 

These accounts are separate from a hack affecting 500 million user accounts in 2014, which Yahoo disclosed this past summer.

Rick Perry has been nominated to lead the Department of Energy. Here's what his selection could mean for the future of nuclear power. 

Prudential announced Monday that it was suspending sales of life insurance policies sold through Wells Fargo. It's the latest twist in the growing Wells Fargo scandal.

As the country's purge continue, Turkey's relationship with the E.U. and the U.S. have become increasingly confrontational. 

Last year, just 17.5 percent of people with a disability were employed. Sen. Tom Harkin who authored the ADA, reflects on the work that still needs to be done.

A suppressed 2015 report found that the Pentagon wastes $125 billion in its bureaucracy. 

The execution of William Sallie today in Georgia will be the state's ninth of 2016, a record for the state where the modern death penalty began in the 1970s. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that it will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota.

Cuban-American poet and author Richard Blanco was the first Latino, the first immigrant, and the first openly gay inaugural poet. He reflects on the death of Fidel Castro here.

We speak to a retired coal miner in Kentucky on his hopes for the Trump presidency, and look at how the Democratic Party lost West Virginia. 

Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 Cuban children airlifted to the U.S. in 1962. He says that Fidel Castro should be remembered as a dictator and a sociopath. 

The corruption scandal embroiling South Korea is exposing the fault lines of the country's democracy. 

General Michael Hayden said recently that the intelligence community needs to "man up" when briefing Trump.