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New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal joins The Takeaway with a list of recommendations worth reading during the hottest months of the year.

If you were at an airport over the Fourth of July holiday, there’s a chance you saw some new technology as you were checking in: facial recognition scans.

Women in Afghanistan are worried they may lose many of the civil rights they gained after America's intervention in 2001, if the Taliban regains power.

The Taliban is continuing negotiations with U.S. and Afghan officials with the hopes of bringing peace to the region. 

Recent tensions within the Democratic Party played out this weekend, when Nancy Pelosi called out progressive Democratic politicians in an interview with the New York Times.

When parents go to "re-education" camps, where they're reportedly shackled and forced to sing patriotic songs, their kids go to "Kindergartens" behind brick walls and barbed wire.

Two legal analysts break down today's rulings from the Supreme Court, which both have an impact on representation in government. 

The Democratic primary debates kicked off in Miami, a city at the forefront of climate change in the country.

The plays aim to address the contributions and impact of people of color and trans people who have been largely erased from contemporary depictions of Stonewall.

Ramy Youssef sits down with The Takeaway to discuss his personal approach to writing jokes about some very taboo subjects.

A photograph of a father and daughter who drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande shows the desperation in the midst of stricter immigration policies in the U.S. and Mexico.

CBP agents took the laptop of Rolling Stone contributing editor, and interrogated him about its contents for hours. For some journalists, it's a common occurrence.

Advocates are calling for hate crime protections to extend to gender expression in Texas following the killings of black transgender women. 

The island is facing one of the worst economic crises since the post-Soviet period.

The U.S. is sending Central American migrants fleeing gang violence back to Mexican cities with reputations for gang violence to await their asylum hearings. 

Instant replay in soccer — known as VAR for Video Assistant Referee — is here to stay, but that hasn't stopped the controversy around it from dominating World Cup conversations. 

Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s local leadership is being questioned after the death of South Bend resident Eric Logan, who was shot and killed by a white police officer.

Last week, migrant children being held in a Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas told a team of lawyers they hadn't bathed in weeks and are sleeping on concrete floors.

70.8 million. That's how many people around the world that have been forcibly displaced by violence, natural disasters, and poverty. The Takeaway talked to experts about the crisis.

Joy Harjo is a musician, poet, and member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. On Wednesday, she also became the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.