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Oil prices, oil production: OPEC calls meeting to counter falling price of crude (episode)
Remember all the predictions that we'd soon see $200 a barrel oil? Ahhhh, those were the old days. Oil prices fell below $70 a barrel yesterday for the first time in 14 months. That...
The stock market fluctuations are only the beginning of the recession story. Bob Brusca, Chief Economist with Fact & Opinion Economics, untangles the recession web of weak retail sa...
There are more details today on a draft agreement to extend the U.S. mandate in Iraq. According to the BBC, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is briefing members of Congress about a...
With Election Day less than three weeks away, activists are warning the nation about voter fraud. Columbia law professor Nate Persily joins The Takeaway to tell us about what may actu...
The Takeaway continues its ongoing look at America as a patchwork nation, rather than a collection of red and blue states. This time, we focus on the "Immigration Nation." It's a gro...
Feeling tired on your drive to work this morning? Frustrated by your early morning and late nights? A new study on sleep says even though you feel like you’re chronically sleep depriv...
With Election Day less than three weeks away and polls showing the potential for a Democratic landslide, The Takeaway talks to the Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commi...
The trial of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, continues. Sen. Stevens takes the stand in Washington D.C. — an extraordinary step for a sitting senator, let alone one running for re...
In the run-up to the presidential election, the BBC has sent a bus of reporters and producers on a 38-day, 4,000-mile journey across the United States. Their goal is to gain insight i...
Forty-eight years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for participating in a sit-in at an Atlanta department store. After the other protestors had been released, King ...
The Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays went head to head Thursday night in a game the Sox had to win to stay alive in the American League Championship Series. In the 7th inning, t...
This fall, energy and the environment have taken a back seat to financial turmoil, national security and the wars that the nation is fighting on two fronts. But when voters head to th...
Analysts were bracing for new numbers on housing construction today. They had expected a decline of 1.6 percent, but construction starts actually dropped by a whopping 6.3 percent.