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Pardon Me? Number of people seeking presidential pardons is in the thousands (episode)
The number of people of seeking pardons and commutations for federal crimes continues to climb — and the backlog of petitions is in the thousands. With President Bush's ter...
A BBC World Service investigation found that Keirin, a cycling event at the Olympics secured its place at the games with a payment of $3 million to Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)...
The Takeaway talks with Marvin Miller, a father of the modern era of baseball. Miller took unorganized and underpaid players and convinced them that they, not the owners, are "the ga...
This Thursday marks the one-year mark for the controversial business of issuing identification cards to undocumented migrants in New Haven, Connecticut. About 6,500 of the estimated ...
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is famous for the secrecy and security that shrouds the legal proceedings of its detainees. But what is like to be a reporter there? USA Today’s Alan Gomez was a...
In the New York Times, Thomas Schweich, a State Department narcotics official, charges that the Afghan government is deeply involved in protecting the opium trade and funneling profits to the Taliban and Taliban sympathizers.
With President Bush facing a pile of applications for pardons, The Takeaway goes back to one of the most famous and controversial pardons a president has ever made.
Two men have reappeared after disappearing for years... despite not going far from home. One, Radovan Karadzic, a Serbian war criminal, and the other, John Darwin, a British man looki...
Guest: Frank Donatelli, Deputy Chairman, Republican National Committee
Seventy-five years ago, on July 28, 1933, Sheila Barrett became the first woman to make a national broadcast on BBC Radio. The anniversary got us here at the Takeaway thinking, how h... (article)