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Drama on Capitol Hill over bailout plan as McCain, Obama talk at White House (episode)
Presidential nominees (and Senators) John McCain and Barack Obama were at the White House last night for talks on a financial system bailout.
Wondering if the proposed Wall Street bailout is a good idea? You're in good company. On Tuesday, more than 100 academic economists sent a letter sent to Congress protesting the bai...
In our ongoing look at the economy, we turn to our friend Dante Chinni of the Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project. The project uses demographic information to look at...
Today in Pakistan, authorities say a bomb blast derailed a train, killing three people and injuring at least 15. The attack comes just days after another bomb destroyed a Marriott ho...
The first televised presidential debates happened in 1960, in the Golden Age of Television.
Tonight, presidential hopefuls John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., are scheduled to kick off the first debate of the general election. Earlier this week, it looked like Ob...
A $700 billion bailout. Banks going under. Just last night, in the largest bank collapse to date, the government seized Washington Mutual and J.P. Morgan bought it.
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the third of a series on counties that count, The Takeaway's Political Director A...
Today, George Gershwin would have turned 110. We listen to the music of the legend who changed jazz.
This Sunday, pastors across the country will stand before God and break the law. The crime? Delivering a sermon that either endorses or opposes a political candidate by name. Churches...
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