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Headlines; Caroline Kennedy withdraws from U.S. Senate; Goings-on on Capitol Hill (article)
Caroline Kennedy withdraws from race for U.S. Senate (episode)
After an evening of conflicting reports on whether Caroline Kennedy was in or out of the race to fill Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate seat, late last night she officially withdrew her n...
President Obama’s cabinet is almost confirmed. Despite a last minute delay, even Hillary Rodham Clinton was able to be confirmed as the new Secretary of State. The latest roadblock? O...
Voters in Nashville, Tennessee head to the polls today to decide whether English should be the only language for all government business in town. This means marriage licenses, parking...
When he listed the diverse faiths of our nation in his inaugural address, President Obama chose to include nonbelievers, a group rarely acknowledged in official discourse. Randall Bal...
Despite the warming trend that is hitting the rest of the planet, it's been long thought that Antarctica is actually getting colder. Global warming skeptics point to Antarctica's cool...
Several thousand Rwandan soldiers are now in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Congolese government said it invited the Rwandan army in to disarm a militia force with ties to the ...
Yesterday marked President Barack Obama’s first full day in office and he certainly had a full docket. Two wars, an economic recession, government ethics, White House pay freezes. He ...
Now that Caroline Kennedy has officially withdrawn from consideration for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton as she became Secretary of State, all eyes turn to New...
The British Pound has been taking a hit all week and it took another beating yesterday dropping to its lowest price since July 1985. While the government is rapidly injecting tax paye...
In sub-Saharan Africa vision and eye care services are costly and hard to come by. While 60-70% of people in wealthy nations wear corrective lenses, only 5% of people in the developin...
China, the world's third-largest economy, has recorded its lowest rate of growth for seven years. The figure fell to nine percent in 2008. Growth slowed even more in the final quarter...
President Obama’s $825 billion stimulus package includes $300 billion in tax cuts, which would come to the American spending public in the form of rebates. But history proves that ref...
For more on the vacant U.S. Senate seat, WNYC's Brian Lehrer joins us in the studio for his take on Caroline Kennedy's withdrawal and what it means for New York and for Ms. Kennedy. W...
Newly-minted President Obama had a full day of work yesterday firing off executive orders left and right. Richard Wolffe, the senior White House correspondent for Newsweek, joins us f...
The 81st Academy Awards nominations were just announced and our contributor Sharon Waxman, editor-in-chief of TheWrap.com, joins us for the rundown. We've compiled the trailers fo...