Tanzina Vega

Fifty years ago this month, a group of Native American activists launched a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay.

Mike Bloomberg announced he is running for president and some are worried about how Bloomberg News will cover his candidacy.

The expansion of fracking in the U.S. has paved the way for a renaissance in American plastics manufacturing.

The Good Liar, a thriller released earlier this month, stars septuagenarians Ian McKellen as a con artist and Helen Mirren as his target.

In the past 15 years, more than 2,000 newspapers have shuttered across the United States. 

President Donald Trump recently pardoned three military officers who were convicted or accused of war crimes. 

U.S. citizens on average receive $26 per person from the federal government, but tribal citizens only get about $3 per person, per year.

Fiona Hill, the former top Russia adviser to the Trump White House, and David Holmes, a political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, are at Capitol Hill this morning. 

The House Intelligence Committee will hear testimony from eight more witnesses over the next three days.

The EPA plans to adopt a new rule that would limit the scientific and medical research the government uses for public health regulations. 

An investigation from the New York Times unveiled new insight into China’s mass detention of as many as a million ethnic minorities in the western region of Xinjiang.

This weekend, Louisiana residents re-elected incumbent governor John Bel Edwards.

Actor Mark Ruffalo and director Todd Haynes sit down with The Takeaway to discuss bringing the true story of a decades-long legal fight against chemical giant DuPont.

As federal investment in the U.S.'s water infrastructure continues to shrink, the scope of this crisis is projected to grow.

President Evo Morales, the first indigenous leader of Bolivia, has stepped down following allegations of election fraud.

Wednesday's public impeachment hearings saw the Trump administration take a two-tracked approach to foreign policy on Ukraine.

Two years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still dealing with political unrest, infrastructure issues, and corruption scandals.

The House of Representatives kicks off the first round of televised impeachment hearings.

These latest changes to the NSC come right in the middle of impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

Rodney Reed has spent two decades on death row for a murder he maintains he did not commit. New evidence has led to urgent calls to give him a reprieve.