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The Takeaway looks at a new Mars simulation, the prevalence of mass shootings in America, and why scientists are saying that sixth mass extinction has begun. (episode)
Families of hostages held abroad by terrorist groups will now be able to pay ransoms, in a policy shift to be announced by the White House on Wednesday.
For the past eight months, a group of scientists have been living in a volcano in Hawaii in order to simulate life on Mars. The lead scientist shares her story.
A heat wave in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan has killed more than 800.
Todd Zwillich weighs in on the danger of calling the Charleston shooting and others "unthinkable," and why politicians and the news media shouldn't get away with it.
Virtually over night, the Confederate flag has gone from a celebrated symbol of the South to a pariah that no one wants to touch. But it's not history's only toxic symbol.
According to new research, a "mass extinction"—the sixth of its kind in Earth's 4.5 billion year history—is currently underway.