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Like a Rock, or a little rocky? Ford Motor Co., the innovator behind the Model T, is seeing its sales slide as GM and Chrysler seek a government bailout. What's Ford's new model for ... (article)
The Takeaway for Thursday, April 2, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
For nearly 100 years, birds couldn't shake their human paparazzi. As part of the U.S. government's Bird Migration Program, bird enthusiasts from Kansas to the West Indies tracked d... (article)
Headlines; News from the G-20 summit (article)
In yet another act of embracing technology, President Obama has invented a new kind of diplomacy: Giving world leaders iPods with custom play lists. The iPod he gave to Queen Elizabet... (article)
Gandhi broke the law to oppose the salt tax. The early Americans railed against the tax on tea. From the first instance that taxes were levied, people have found ways to not pay, for ... (article)
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Congress is of course embarking on a debate for a massive overhaul of the health care system. One big part of the plan is encouraging wellness and preventive medicine. Rep. David Drei... (article)
Lords of Finance: What the Great Depression can teach the G-20 (episode)
The G-20 summit is underway in London and world leaders are hoping the day will end with a new global deal for tackling the worldwide recession. It’s a moment that reminds our next gu...
Tax season has arrived. As we’ve seen with several of President Obama’s administration nominees, paying taxes honestly and correctly is not the easiest thing to do. Kansas Governor an...
Today, Vermont’s House of Representatives votes on a controversial bill that would legalize gay marriage in the state. The bill has come under fire from Vermont Governor Jim Douglas w...
Former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens may walk away from seven felony convictions a free man with a clean record. Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice ...
Despite the President's assurances, it is not to hard to imagine that the end of the American auto industry seems near. GM reported this week a 45 percent drop in sales, Ford sales we...
The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and his counterpart from Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, met in the Turkish capital Ankara yesterday. They agreed to increase military cooperat...
One way to get your head around exactly what happened with the mortgage crisis is to look at the tools that made it happen. Michael Osinski started out with a job in data entry to sup...
You know the names: Dr. Ross, Carol, Dr. Carter, Rocket Romano. You know the stars: George Clooney, Noah Wylie, Julianna Margulies, Maria Bello, William H. Macy. At its peak, ER attra...
Starting in 1882 and continuing for almost a century, the United State's Bird Migration Program collected two-by-five notecards from bird watchers around North America. Today, these l...
Leaders at the G-20 represent 85% of the global economy. And there are possibly as many financial rescue plans as there are world leaders at the summit. One option has Germany and Fra...
Our friend David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times and author of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, is at the...