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Mark Moffa shaves a cast in the Prosthetics lab of the VA Medical Center in New York. Mark Moffa is lovingly caressing the leg of a Vietnam vet. His fingers linger o... (article)
Jeanne Allen, President of the Center for Education Reform, on why states may fudge their applications for federal education money from the White House's 'Race to the Top' program:(ht... (article)
The Takeaway for Thursday, November 12 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
<p>Headlines; Fort Hood</p> (article)
The Path to Justice for Suspected Fort Hood Shooter (episode)
At a memorial for victims of the Fort Hood shootings, President Obama said the killer will "be met with justice in this world and the next." We focus on the legal challenges for the a...
Washington Takeout: The Takeaway's Todd Zwillich says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may face sharp criticism and intense pressure from groups on both sides of the abortion debat...
The White House has a plan to have states compete for cash prizes for their school systems, funded from $4 billion in stimulus money. It's being called the "Race to the Top." To expla...
On the eve of President Obama’s visit to China next week, a new report alleges that a sprawling system of “black jails” has been used to detain Chinese citizens petitioning for redres...
The government has worked to help soldiers who have lost limbs on the battlefield since as far back as the Civil War. More recently, the Vietnam War inspired a huge jump in the develo...
President Obama takes off for an eight-day trip to Asia tonight. He’ll visit Seoul, Singapore and spend three days in China, where the agenda will include some of the biggest global c...
Washington Takeout: The Takeaway's Todd Zwillich says many people were surprised when the American Medical Association took a position that the U.S. military's policy towards gay se...
A case brought to the Georgia Supreme Court this Tuesday might decide whether Georgia can afford to levy the death penalty any more. Jamie Weis has been sitting in jail for four years...
We're looking at a confrontation between high-tech and low-tech in the waters off East Africa. Several thousand Somali pirates in speedboats are causing massive disruption in vital sh...
[Above, our interview with Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman] "The Messenger" tells the story of the grief and pain that families go through when...
As we discussed with researcher Phelim Kine earlier this morning, a just-released report from Human Rights Watch alleges that China is operating a distributed system of secret prisons...
We take a quick look at some of the numbers soon to affect consumers this holiday season. Wal-Mart posted positive third-quarter earnings, and the Labor Department reports that initia...