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The Takeaway for Thursday, April 23, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
President Obama is facing a challenge today that you may face every day: credit card companies. What have these companies done to you? How did your company shock you? We want to hear ... (article)
The mysterious death of 21 champion polo horses last week left scientists stumped. There was no sign of foul play, and no obvious cause for the deaths. Now the leader of the Venezuela... (article)
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Taliban militants take control of more of Pakistan (episode)
In another indication of the gathering strength of the insurgency, Taliban militants have taken control of a district close to the Pakistani capital. The district of Buner, home to al...
Things are not looking good for General Motors. The company is reportedly planning to shutter most of its factories in the U.S. for up to nine weeks beginning as early as next month. ...
Instead of spending his Earth day out in the wilderness, Vice President Joe Biden held an event at a bus depot in Maryland. He was announcing a plan to spend $300 million in stimulus ...
Yesterday in an Earth Day pitch, the Obama administration and the Department of the Interior announced new rules that will help boost the development of offshore wind farms along our ...
Ski jumping has been in the Winter Olympics since the very beginning. Yet in those 86 years there has never been a women’s ski jumping event. That may be about to change. A group ...
Americans have stopped moving! And the economy is to blame. While this isn't particularly revelatory, our partners at the New York Times are reporting that fewer Americans moved last ...
A donor’s conference for Somalia is underway today in Brussels. The United Nations hopes to raise more than $250 million to improve security in the anarchic nation. This comes on the ...
The American public is famously divided on almost every issue: from politics to war to the place of religion in society. But in the past five years there is one cause that has united ...
It's a common assumption that plants grow best in clear sunny weather, but scientists say this isn't always the case. Research has shown that forests and crops can also thrive in hazy...
This week may end with a new playbook for the credit card industry in America. President Obama summoned representatives from 14 banks that issue credit cards to the White House for ta...
Bird strikes. The phrase entered most Americans vocabulary when Captain "Sully" Sullenberg landed an American Airlines plane on the Hudson River after the plane hit a flock of ill-fat...