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With Al Franken's high-profile run for the Minnesota Senate seat, we're looking back on entertainers in office. Ronald Reagan, Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, that guy who played G... (article)
You gotta love hockey players - especially hockey players from Detroit who have the heart of champions. Some people are saying they're an old team, an aging lion. But you can't discou... (article)
Headlines; This week's agenda (article)
The Agenda: What's In Store for the Week Ahead (episode)
The Takeaway talks to Marcus Mabry, International Business Editor for The New York Times, and BBC Arab Affairs Analyst Magdi Abdel Hadi about what's in the headlines for the week ahea...
Al Franken and Norm Coleman face off today in Minnesota Supreme Court as oral arguments start for the selection of junior senator in the land of ten thousand lakes. Norm Coleman's tea...
Last weekend, researchers announced details of a new cancer “vaccine” that keeps some cancers at bay for more than a year. The announcement came at an oncology conference in Florida t...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is in Beijing for a two-day visit to meet with top Chinese government officials including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. He is th...
Author and Scholar Ronald Takaki died last week at age 70. To many students of ethnic studies, he was known as the pioneer. His Facebook page has turned into a memorial page; one mess...
Dr. George Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions for decades, was murdered on Sunday in Wichita, Kansas, while he attended mass at his local church. Tiller was accused by anti-abor...
Air France flight 447 carrying 228 people departed yesterday evening from Rio de Janeiro from Brazil to Paris. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Paris, but disappeared about 186 m...
General Motors is expected to file for bankruptcy this morning, leaving thousands of workers in Detroit worried about what will happen next. To talk about this American business miles...
It was a big weekend in sports: an unknown sprinter at track-and-field's Reebok Grand Prix; the NBA playoffs, where Dwight Howard stopped LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Did...
President Obama plans to visit Cairo this week, creating an enormous challenge for his own and Egypt's security services. They will have to navigate one of the world’s most notoriousl...
Interest rates are spiking, and oil prices rose to about $68 a barrel today, hitting a new high for the year. What effect might this have on consumption? The Takeaway poses this ques...
Last night, The Guggenheim Museum's Works and Process series featured an opera called "Green Aria," created by Stewart Matthew. It was a feast for the nose. Perfumes were composed b...