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The Takeaway for Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
Headlines; Co-ops (article)
Health Insurance Co-ops (episode)
This week, the Senate Finance committee is set to release the first draft of their health care bill. In fact, the proposed legislation was originally slated to be released today ... s...
As President Obama spoke on Wall Street about the urgent need for tighter financial regulation, a federal judge issued a scathing ruling about how poorly regulators have been doing th...
One of the best tennis players of all time, Roger Federer, was defeated by Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro in a heated US Open match last night. This week also saw the kickoff of M...
President Obama set off a trade dispute on Friday when he announced that the U.S. would impose a 35 percent tariff on imported Chinese tires. China retaliated by launching an investig...
We pay tribute to two people who died this week: James Carroll – author, poet, punk rocker – who passed away on Monday at the age of 60, and Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday at age ...
They can't wait for Amazon.com to ship it. They can't wait until 9 a.m. for Barnes & Noble to open. They are Dan Brown's biggest fans, and they can't wait even a minute past midnight ...
As we await the peak season for the H1N1 virus, one simple act may prevent the spread of infection: washing your hands. According to new research in the journal Risk Analysis, one-thi...
On the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, President Obama visited New York City to make a case for expanding federal regulation of Wall Street. To parse the Presi...
Public outbursts and their consequences seem a lot more common, of late. Last week, Representative Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina) heckled the president during an address to both houses...
Muntazer al-Zaidi, the man jailed for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush, was released from prison yesterday. Hugh Sykes is a foreign correspondent for our partners...
Yesterday, we asked listeners to send us questions about health care. From "insurance co-ops" to "sole proprietorship," our very own Washington correspondent and healthcare whiz Todd ...
American forces have killed one of the most wanted Islamic militants in southern Somalia. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was the ringleader of a Qaeda cell in Kenya. For more details, we talk...
Since Senator Edward Kennedy’s death last month, everyone – from his family members and friends to politicians and pundits – has been talking about about his life and legacy. But now,...
Retail sales jumped 2.7 percent in August, the biggest increase in three and a half years. The government's "Cash-for-Clunkers" sales factored into that jump, but even without that pr...