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Thursday, April 16 2009

  • The Takeaway for Thursday, April 16, 2009 (Final Edition) April 16, 2009

    The Takeaway for Thursday, April 16, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)

  • What is your employment exit strategy? April 16, 2009

    Many people have lost jobs recently, and we're wondering what your strategy for leaving is? Is it a company-wide e-mail? Or maybe a confrontation with a boss? How did you leave your last job? (article)

  • The Takeaway for Thursday, April 16, 2009 (Early Edition) April 16, 2009

    Headlines; Obama's trip to Mexico (article)

  • Fired and feisty: Email from the unemployed April 16, 2009

    Download the video (MP4) (article)

  • President Obama travels to Mexico City April 16, 2009

    President Obama travels to Mexico City (episode)

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    • President Obama travels to Mexico City April 16, 2009

      President Obama touches down in Mexico City this afternoon for talks with his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon. This is his first trip to Latin America since being inaugurated. Det...

    • The (possible) Nazi on his deathbed April 16, 2009

      It has been over sixty years since the end of the Third Reich’s reign of terror over Europe and the Nuremberg Trials that followed. Yet the hunt still continues for the long-lost Nazi...

    • Bedbugs: They're Baaaaaack! April 16, 2009

      I woke up Thursday morning and looked upon the wall. The skeeters and the bedbugs were playing a game of ball. The score was nineteen to twenty, the skeeters were ahead. The bedbugs ...

    • Polls open across India April 16, 2009

      Polls open today in India, the world's biggest democracy. With over 714 million expected participants the country's historic elections will run for several weeks with results expected...

    • China's economy hits a speed bump April 16, 2009

      Today, China announced that it's GDP grew at a much slower rate in the first quarter of 2009, down almost 4% since this time last year and the weakest growth since quarterly records b...

    • The challenges for Obama's new border czar April 16, 2009

      President Obama has appointed former U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin to the newly-created position of "Border Czar." Bersin will lead the effort to stop drug-related violence along the U.S....

    • The tax man takes Capitol Hill April 16, 2009

      President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2008 tax returns last night. President Obama paid $855,323 in federal taxes on a combined household income of $2,656,902. I...

    • Vatican and U.S. not seeing eye to eye on ambassadors April 16, 2009

      If we learned anything about our new President during his trip abroad this month, it's that his charm speaks all languages. But it seems that if President Obama wants to pick an ambas...

    • The Color of Money: Disparities in healthcare April 16, 2009

      Today close to 46 million Americans are without health insurance, and of those, more than half are people of color. According to the Institute of Medicine, At least 1 in 3 Latinos is ...

    • Russia claims an end to military operations in Chechnya April 16, 2009

      Russia declared an end to its ten-year operation in the autonomous republic of Chechnya today. The decade long struggle between the nations brought ten of thousands of Russian troops ...

    • Last letters and parting shots: How to say goodbye at work April 16, 2009

      It's a sad fact of life, and particularly this economy, that people get laid off and fired from jobs. Femi Oke went out and found stories behind the statistics. She joins us with thei...