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Bailout plans and speeches on Capitol Hill (episode)
President Bush addressed the nation last night. It was his first prime-time speech devoted exclusively to the economy. It's just one of many political firsts in Washington this Septem...
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the second of a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Directo...
McCain is Optima. Obama is Gotham. We know what the candidates’ slogans say about their campaigns but what do their <i>fonts</i> mean? From POW to GQ, there may be more to design and typefaces than you’d think.
NASA monitors Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier via satellite and is interested in the enhanced mass loss. In August, a team of scientists set out to investigate if water that pools on ...
For a look at how the turmoil on Wall Street is hitting Main Street, The Takeaway talks to Jim Svets, whose small coffee house franchise "Muddy Cup" has several shops on Main Streets ...
Tucker Bounds is one of Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s top campaign representatives. The Takeaway speaks with Bounds about the suspension of the Senator's campaign, th...
North Korea has removed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) surveillance equipment to prepare for reactivating the Yongbyon nuclear plant. This action comes nearly two years af...
Down in the Galapagos, a long extinct sea turtle may be resurrected from the dead. An international team of researchers has found that a living breed of tortoise carries some of the s...
Listeners and Web site partipants respond to Senator McCain's announcement that he'll temporarily suspend his campaign and his participation in the first presidential debate scheduled for Friday night.