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A new treatment for a type of childhood cancer is the first FDA -approved use of gene-therapy. It provides an alternative for patients who have...

After weeks of hearing from his teenage sons in Puerto Rico about the lack of sufficient food and water, a Connecticut father sells his car to pay for plane tickets to get them out.

The Latin Grammy nominated song "Despacito" is a smash hit on YouTube. But if you ask Google's personal assistant to play "Despacito" it can't understand the command. Even though YouTube is part of Google. It's a learning moment about artificial intelligence, how natural language processing works and why machines still struggle with translation and foreign accents.

The stock market saw a major sell-off Monday, with technology companies seeing particularly steep declines. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index lost 2.7 percent.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib's expletive-laden call to impeach President Trump, and a top committee leader said it's too early to push for it.

The White House counsel Don McGahn will leave his job this fall. David Greene talks with professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

Beverly Jenkins writes historical romances — about free black towns, lawmen and cowboys and Civil War vets. She says her mission is to illuminate the parts of black history you don't learn in school.

Anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann studies the personal relationships evangelicals develop with God. In her book When God Talks Back, she explains how relationships with God are often cemented through the power of prayer. The book has just come out in paperback.

Syphilis cases are on the rise. The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease is becoming resistant to some antibiotics. But somehow, penicillin has remained the best weapon against it.

Rachel Martin speaks with journalist Tennessee Watson, who's reported on her own experience being molested. [Editor's note: this conversation includes discussion of child sexual abuse.]