Dana Roberson

On World AIDS Day, The Takeaway looks at the life of a New York Times reporter who transformed news coverage of the epidemic after he was diagnosed with the disease.

The event, known as the Conference of Parties or COP21, aims to establish a universal agreement to curb global warming.

When Angela Merkel said she wouldn't cap the number of refugees entering Germany, she took a huge hit in the polls. Is a door opening for mainstream nationalist movements in Europe?

Back in 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs." Fast forward 40 years and we're facing another heroin epidemic, but the users, and the response, are very different.

The city of Brussels went into lockdown over the weekend as the hunt for terror suspects involved in the Paris attacks continues.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was able to speak out on foreign policy issues. As a candidate, she is having a difficult time responding to the Paris attacks.

While estimates that current and former students owe 150 billion dollars in loans from private lenders, student loan lawyers are seeing a number of new clients. 

Chicago's French community is mourning with the rest of the world after this weekend's terrorist attacks in Paris. 

As more teens sext, kids are being charged under felony child porn laws for sharing photos, something that's raising questions about sexuality, technology, bullying, parenting and more.

Theodore R. Johnson III is a black Republican. He says that in order to win over black conservatives, the GOP needs a "civil-rights Republican."  

The Center for Public Integrity released its "2015 State Integrity Investigation" today, and the findings are grim.

President Obama has once again said he is going to shut down the Guantánamo Bay detention center. It's a message we've heard before, and one that Congress says is not going to happen.  

A student activism group says complaints of recent racist incidents have fallen on deaf ears. After several days of protests, the university president announced he would resign.

Bernie Sanders' big brother Larry recalls a childhood in Brooklyn filled with baseball, corn beef and pastrami sandwiches, and the loss of parents. 

Over the weekend, a Russian airliner broke up in mid-air, killing all 224 people on board. Though the cause is still unknown, terrorism has not been ruled out.  

The new film "Truth" tells the story of how Mary Mapes, Dan Rather's legendary CBS producer, went down in flames over the Killian documents. 

In an campaign season that has been dominated by sound-bite politics, the candidates sparred for the attention of a fractured electorate. But how good are their debating skills, really?

What's in your DNA? That's what millions of people want to know when they sign up with genetic testing sites like Ancestry.com. And law enforcement officials have been taking notice.

Companies like Uber and TaskRabbit have been thriving in the so-called "gig economy." But the gig may soon be up, thanks to a number of class action lawsuits. 

This weekend, President Obama announced a new initiative to reduce the amount of time schools spend on standardized testing.