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Headlines; Blagojevich nominates a new Illinois Senator (article)
Illinois, meet your new Senator (maybe) (episode)
Yesterday embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich defied expectations and appointed a respected senior statesman in Illinois politics to fill the Senate seat of President-elect Ba...
'Tis the season to be groggy, nauseous and dehydrated. For a look at what it takes to not pay for one's drinking sins, The Takeaway explores the causes and cures behind the holiday ha...
Despite pleas from the U.S., the European Union, United Nations and Russia, Israeli officials say the country has decided to reject an immediate 48-hour pause in fighting. The decisio...
Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush didn't pull any punches yesterday when he challenged Senators who were making noises about blocking the appointment of Roland Burris, an African-Americ...
Chinese state media reports four milk company executives and five others have gone on trial in connection with the melamine-tainted milk scandal. Sanlu, the company at the center of t...
In 2003, the Columbia space shuttle disintegrated in the skies above Texas. All seven astronauts were lost. A 400-page NASA report released yesterday investigates the equipment fa...
As if Illinois' political crisis wasn't complex enough. Embattled Governor Rod Blagojevich has appointed former Attorney General Roland Burris to President-elect Obama's vacant Senate...
Pay close attention to the current conflict between Israel and Palestine, because not only is it incredibly important, but also because you may be witnessing President-elect Barack Ob...
President-elect Obama campaigned on a platform of hope, change and sweeping healthcare reform. That was before the U.S. economy melted down. Now, unemployment is rising and healthcare...
Filling President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat has turned into such an incredible drama that it is easy to forget that there are other empty seats in the U.S. Senate. Vice-...
Violence continues in the Gaza Strip today despite global pleas for a ceasefire. France's foreign minister says he and President Nicolas Sarkozy are considering going to Israel to try...
Headlines; Tensions continue to rise between Hamas and Israel; Reactions to violence from the global community (article)
Israel and Hamas take hits as global community calls for ceasefire (episode)
In the fourth day of violence along the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Israel each claim wins and losses. The Israeli military is continuing its campaign of air strikes against targets in Gaza...
Retailers were not supposed to begin filing for bankruptcy until after January 1. But it seems the fallout from poor holiday sales has already begun. On Monday, the Parent Company bec...
A little over a week ago more than one billion gallons of wet coal ash spilled after a retaining wall ruptured forty miles west of Knoxville. Initially authorities didn't realize how ...
There's no let up in the political turmoil in Thailand. This past year the country has had four prime ministers. The most recently-elected prime minister has been greeted with calls t...
The conflict between Israel and Hamas rages in the aftermath of a six month truce, which expired earlier this month. Today marks day four of what Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak...
These are dark days for credit card companies--people are buying less on credit and having trouble paying their bills. Bad times for them may be good times for struggling borrowers, t...
The auto industry's troubles are threatening the well-being of African-Americans more than any other racial or ethnic group. New York Times contributor Mary Chapman joins The Takeaway...
Most pharmaceutical drugs only work for about half the people who take them. Why? Because our DNA can inhibit them from functioning in our bodies. But personalized medicine -- in whic...
On Tuesday morning the Japanese stock market completed its investment year with a final session that ended 1.3% higher. This is a small high note in what was a dismal year for the Nik...
The news of Bernard Madoff and the billions of dollars lost in his worldwide Ponzi scheme reinforces the connection between money and corruption. It’s a relationship that is also evid...
Calls for the end of the media as we know it are not new to anyone in the business. For years media clairvoyants have been peering into their crystal balls to find ever shrinking staf...
In a speech today, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak said his country will not fully open the border crossing into Gaza. He said that it will remain that way until the Palestinian Auth...
Listen to Meaghan O'Neill's suggestions for greening up your holiday cleanup. Nationwide, there was a lot of focus this year on how to green up your holiday season, and with good r... (article)
Listen to Jeff Beresford-Howe discuss the eventful NFL Sunday on The Takeaway. Yesterday may have been the single most interesting day in the modern history of the NFL, and it was ... (article)
Headlines; Israeli airstrikes kill more than 300 in Gaza; Tensions rise as Pakistani troops move to Indian border (article)
Latest from Gaza (episode)
With increasing violence between Israel and Hamas, there is currently no end in sight. For the latest on the situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip, The Takeaway talks to New York Time...
One year has passed since the murder of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Meanwhile, tensions with neighboring India are high and there are reports that Pakistan is redeploying t...
$438 billion. That was the projected cost of the deficit in September of this year, before the word "bailout" entered the American lexicon and exploded the national deficit. Linda Bil...
Somali pirates have been grabbing headlines for months for hijacking tanker after tanker. The Somali government is in shambles and its president is resigning and they are in no positi...
The Somali president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has announced he's resigning. Mr. Yusuf has come under increasing pressure since he tried to sack the Somali prime minister in a power struggle ...
For analysis of the latest violent flare-up between Israel and Hamas, The Takeaway talks to Aaron David Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Sc...
Happy days are here again for a group of former senior government officials who were involved in the savings and loan bailout of the 1990s. Now they are lawyers, investors, and lobbyi...
Today is the third day of Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to regular rocket attacks by Hamas. According to the Associate Press, more than 300 Palestinians are dead an...
Ever since Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast, the news coming out of New Orleans has been grim. The crumbling infrastructure, rising crime, and a housing crisis exacerbated by ...
Today people across the country are overwhelmed with the fear of loss: fear of losing one’s job, fear of losing one’s life savings, fear of losing all our money in a Bernie Madoff-sty...
And oh what a weekend it was. From the Dallas Cowboys' spectacular crash to the grand finale of Detroit's season-long slow burn to the odd alignment of the playoff fates that put the ...
Will independent film studios breathe their final breath, only to be saved by culture vultures downloading lesser known films online? Will this be the year SAG members strike, only to...
Headlines; The Republican Party looks for a new vision, or perhaps an old one to restore (article)