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For high quality video, click the "HQ" button. The Takeaway's Femi Oke talks with middle school students in Brooklyn, New York, about how they’re dealing with the recession. Th... (article)
The Takeaway for Tuesday, April 28, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
In a poorly thought-out public relations move, the Department of Defense planned a photo op, but failed to take into account their chosen setting. The result scared many New Yorkers w... (article)
On Sunday, the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency. Since then, swine flu has raised questions and concerns in a lot of people. Is the governmen... (article)
Headlines; Latest news on swine flu (article)
Swine flu: We know it's spreading, but not much else (episode)
We continue our coverage of the outbreak of swine flu that appears to be spreading rapidly across the globe. While the epicenter of the outbreak is in Mexico, there are 50 confirmed c...
As the confirmed numbers of confirmed cases of swine flu continue to rise around the world, countries are responding at their borders, tightening transport and immigration controls. J...
Comic books have always been a place to explore brave new worlds. Be that out outer space, inner space, or the frontiers of race and gender. Yeah, we're talking about Wolverine, but w...
This week we’re marking our one-year anniversary by checking in with the people who have been, in many ways, the backbone of the show. From the plummeting economy to the Presidential ...
The last few days we've been inundated with numbers and swine flu facts. Eighty deaths in Mexico jumped to 100. Twenty sickened school children in Queens became 40. We know that pork'...
After President Obama was elected there was much speculation over how his election would affect race relations here in the United States. Already, just one day shy of his 100th day in...
When reading the news it is easy to have an opinion about whether the person involved was acting ethically. But no one is more entitled to that opinion than Randy Cohen. He writes The...
Swine flu is continuing it's spread around the globe, and there's one word on everyone's lips: vaccine. Can researchers create a vaccine that will stop the virus with one quick jab of...
This week we’re marking our one-year anniversary by checking in the real people who helped us bring you the names and events in the news. Peggy Silva is among the many citizens who we...
On the brink of his first hundred days in office, President Obama has tackled the economic crisis head on. But how would a Nobel Prize winning economist grade his performance? Paul Kr...
In the middle of this economic upheaval there are children across America learning new words like: "recession" and "foreclosure" and "layoff." While parents struggle to keep jobs, kee...