T.J. Raphael

A new book documents how fear and bad research swept hundreds of children into costly and unfounded investigations of child abuse in the 1980s. 

Two more countries, the United Kingdom and Pakistan, join a small group that have killed human targets using armed drones. 

For the first time, the number of deaths of children under the age of five has dipped below 6 million—a number that hovered around 12.7 million per year in 1990. 

Serena Williams is vying for her first ever Grand Slam. But to get there, she had to face her sister Venus, in what was their 27th meeting. We reflect on their complex rivalry here. 

"I was born in Syria," says Takeaway listener Hassan Shibly. Had he grown up there, he says he may have "drowned trying cross the Mediterranean as a refugee."

Doctors Without Borders rescued 1,658 displaced refugees crossing the Mediterranean last week. An emergency coordinator for a rescue ship tells us what exactly happens on board.

Europe's population is aging at an alarming rate. An influx of migrants could help jump-start the workforce and save the E.U. from economic uncertainty. 

For more than 100 million Americans, their dying wishes are now available online, thanks to a three-year digitization project by the genealogical research firm Ancestry.

After a photo of a drowned Syrian toddler went viral, we discuss how images can define a conflict. Warning: The photos in this story may be distressing to some viewers.

A federal judge in Kentucky has found Davis in contempt of court for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses. But that doesn't mean this issue is settled.

The People's Liberation Army will see a reduction of 300,000 military personnel, a move not necessarily aimed at reducing the military's capability.

Email. Twitter. Facebook. Netflix. How important is it to be technologically compatible with your other half?

A teacher describes a community that embraces diversity.

The summer job as we once knew it has become somewhat of an archaic concept, but don't be too quick to call today's youth lazy. Here's what's behind the summer's drop in teen employment.

For the first time in more than two decades, Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northwest coast.

Mount McKinley is now Denali. The Takeaway explores the history of national landmarks, how their names have changed over the years, and whether they should be changed back. 

After 71 dead migrants were found abandoned in a truck on a highway last week, Austrian police officers have began conducting spot-checks of vehicles that are entering from Hungary.

After Chinese agriculture officials were caught spying, some FBI bureaus have made agriculture technology the number two most important security issue, second only to terrorism.

Florida’s high court ruled that the legislature needs to redraw the state’s Congressional districts because they favored Republicans to heavily. But no resolution has been reached.

Home-schooling is on the rise across the country. Some states hardly regulate the practice, and one lobbying group hopes to keep it that way.