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The Takeaway for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
Toyota has issued its largest vehicle recall ever made in the United States. The company issued the recall when it discovered that floor mats in certain models can cause gas pedals to... (article)
<p>Headlines; Texting While Driving</p> (article)
Washington Convenes 'Distracted Driving' Summit (episode)
Call it Driving While Distracted, or DWD. It may not sound as serious as DWI, but driving and texting or twittering or "just" checking your email is a serious enough issue that dozens...
Yesterday, both Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) offered amendments that would have reintroduced a government-run insurance option to the health care reform bill u...
A year after short selling stocks was decried for adding fuel to the fire of the financial meltdown, the Securities and Exchange Commission is considering cracking down on the practic...
<p>We revisit your responses to our recent questions: the housing situation in your block, and what you think the biggest "clear and present danger" is to America.</p>
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the shore of Samoa and American Samoa early yesterday. The huge earthquake launched a tsunami that has devastated the Samoa islands and killed a...
[Trailer for "The Founding of the Republic"] China is celebrating the big 6-0, and what better way to celebrate six decades of Communist rule than with a major motion...
As the weather starts to cool, but summer's harvest is still available, New York Times food writer Melissa Clark has been inspired to bake. But she hasn't been baking sweets — there ...
Trust the doctor, we’re often told. But in the passage of a health care reform bill, it's the lawmakers we have to rely on. We’ve found three members of Congress who are also medica...
When GM and Chrysler declared bankruptcy, the court allowed them to prematurely end contracts with car dealers across the nation. Today, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is m...
Key economic indicators are still giving mixed signals about the recovery of the nation's economy. Housing numbers were up, but now they are down; consumer confidence was rising, and ...
In the wild world of baseball, the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins are in an intense race to win Major League Baseball's A.L. Central division. The Takeaway's sports contributo...
The man in charge of the military mission in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has said that without more troops, the U.S. mission "will likely result in failure." While no offici...
A Los Angeles–based clothing company is laying off 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming weeks at the behest of the Obama administration. And it's not just any company — it's Americ...
Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer prize–winning author of "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam," one of the best documentations of the Vietnam War, has written a new ...