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Listener Matt Stein send this photo that his mother, Heather, took of a boarded up Starbucks in Pittsburgh, PA. In advance of tomorrow's G20 summit there, we're inviting your photos f... (article)
<p>Headlines; President Obama at the United Nations</p> (article)
President Obama's UN Debut (episode)
Yesterday President Obama took to the international stage as he made his United Nations debut. From yesterday’s climate change summit to tomorrow’s nuclear disarmament talk — and anti...
This morning the finance committee of the U.S. House of Representatives kicks off a series of hearings on regulatory reform. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will testify before Ma...
The NCAA released their college football rankings this week. There aren't too many surprises: Florida tops the list and Michigan didn't crack the top 25. But after their upset win ove...
The investigation into a possible bomb plot involving three men in New York and Denver is reportedly widening to include at least a half-dozen individuals in the U.S., Pakistan and el...
Scenes of Pittsburgh in "Flashdance." You could say it's like the 1980s movie "Flashdance": It's set in Pittsburgh and the main character (the city) has shed its bl...
New York Times food writer Kim Severson tells us about a series of food sites that apply the wikipedia approach to recipes. Wikia, Foodista and others allow anyone to post and edit al...
Chinese president Hu Jintao told the U.N. that climate change "has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind," but stopped short of offering specifics on his countr...
Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin tells us about Major League Baseball's push to the playoffs, including a look at the wildest wild card races in the American League (De...
Georgia and much of the Southeast is recuperating from the heavy rains and floods that destroyed homes and cars this week. Ten people have officially been reported dead because of the...
Last week close to a million New Yorkers received a special edition of the New York Post emblazoned with the giant headline: "We're Screwed!" Plausible as the headline seemed, the pap...
The BBC's Kate Clark joins us with a look at one aspect of the Taliban that you don't see that often: their day jobs. So-called "weekend Jihadists" are members of Afghan society — civ...