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Supreme Court grants Guantánamo Bay detainees access to civilian court system (episode)
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that suspected terrorists detained at a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have the constitutional right to contest their detentions in U.S...
View a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=iowa+flood&s=rec">slideshow of Iowa flooding photos</a> on Flickr.
This was a busy week for space news watchers. The GLAST gamma-ray space observatory blasted off, the International Astronomical Union dubbed dwarf planets "plutoids" in honor of the o...
A mixed bag of economic indicators and the struggles of independent bank Lehman Brothers this week have resuscitated fears of recession. The Takeaway gets the perspective of The New York Times’s David Leonhardt.
The Incredible Hulk, the do-over of 2003's Hulk, opens this weekend. The Takeaway sent nuclear physicist Tim Halpin-Healy, who (we think) has no anger management issues, to a press screening.
The Tony winners will be announced this Sunday, and one of the big prizes is Best New Musical. There are two front runners, "In the Heights" and "Passing Strange." They don’t sound li...
The Supreme Court ruled that suspected terrorists detained at a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to contest their detention via U.S. civilian courts. Glenn Greenwald (Sa...
Watch a collection of video and images on Andy Brudtkuhl's iowaflood.com and view a slideshow of Iowa flooding photos on Flickr.