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Tomorrow will mark the one-year anniversary of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. With al Qaeda now under the leadership of Ayman al-Zawahiri, we look at how the group ha... (episode)
As obesity rates in children have climbed over recent years, so too has the childhood incidence of type 2 diabetes. Dr. David Nathan, an author of the study and director of the diabet...
In March, Joseph Kony jumped into the national spotlight when a YouTube video about his Christian militia, the Lord’s Resistance Army, went viral. Six months earlier, however, America...
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the release of the April jobs report on Friday will provide an important picture of ...
The NBA playoffs got underway this weekend and the playoff picture has already been flipped on its head. Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Takeaway sports contributor, recaps the action and makes ...
Tomorrow will mark the one-year anniversary of the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's complex in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In the immediate aftermath of the al Qaeda leader's death, many...
If wind speeds aren’t prohibitive Monday, a steel column will be lifted on top of the existing framework of 1 World Trade Center, making it New York’s new tallest building. WNYC digit...
Everyone had a favorite teacher growing up, but did you ever wonder how that person got you excited about learning? According to new neurological research, it might be because that te...
Philip Markoff, also known as the Craigslist Killer, evaded police for weeks. Eventually, he was tracked down via a trove of cyber information — IP addresses, emails, Facebook activit...
After we aired the segment "Lonely in a Digital Age" on Wednesday, we got lots of responses from listeners. Many agreed with our guest, Sherry Turkle, who argued that our digital-satu... (article)
In the two weeks since the HBO series premiered, "Girls" went from being praised to being the object of overwhelming vitriol. From the blogosphere to the New York Times, critics have ... (episode)
It’s been a week of mixed economic news. Gas prices are down; jobless claims are up; pending housing sales are up. While it's been hard to put a finger on whether the recovery is pr...
"Girls," written by and starring Lena Dunham, was initially the subject of overwhelming praise for telling the story of twenty-something New York females in a new way. But in the two ...
The CIA and the Pentagon have been granted new and broader authority to carry out drone strikes in Yemen. The Obama Administration reportedly approved the clandestine campaign's expan...
Every Friday, The Takeaway convenes a panel to look back at the week's big stories. This week, we'll hear more about Arizona v. U.S., the case that will determine the constitutionalit...
The Department of Veteran Affairs says that 95 percent of patients seeking mental health care are evaluated with two weeks. A new report from the VA Inspector General, however, sugg...
It’s Friday, when we talk about movies at the Takeaway. And there are plenty of big ones today, from the romantic comedy "Five Year Engagement" to the claymation kids movie "Pirates: ...
It’s day five of the John Edwards trial. We take a step back to contextualize the former North Carolina senator's sex scandal within the storied history of political infidelities. Rem...
On April 29, 1992, nearly 20 years ago, an all-white jury acquitted four white Los Angeles Police Officers in the case of Rodney King, a black motorist who suffered severe injuries af...
<p>A judge in the Netherlands has approved a government plan to prevent foreigners from entering cannabis cafes. <strong>Anna Holligan </strong>is a reporter for our partner the BBC.</p>
The Danger Assessment was created by Jacquelyn Campbell, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The Assessment is a screen that helps police, advocates, judges and o... (article)
In a presidential election year, campaign speeches, political analysis, and polls always dominate the headlines. But this year, the Supreme Court will be making big news too. With maj... (episode)
Newt Gringich has announced that he he will be dropping out the Republican Primary. We talk with Republican strategist Ron Christie to figure out how Newt has affected both Romney and...
Today is the third day of the federal corruption trial of former Senator John Edwards, who is charged with violating campaign finance law. Edwards allegedly used money given to him by...
Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia who was on trial at the International Criminal Court's Special Court for Sierra Leone has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes agains...
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is up for reauthorization this year. While VAWA has served countless women since its inception, the rate of domestic violence homicides has remai...
In the run-up to this years presidential election, campaign speeches, political analysis, and polls always dominate the headlines. But this year, the Supreme Court will be making b...
And according to our partner the BBC, the contract for a project called "Solar Orbiter" is set to be signed today. A project of the European Space Agency, the Solar Orbiter will get c...
The discovery of a case of mad cow disease in a cow in California prompted two major South Korean retailers to immediately suspend sales of US beef. Although it's the first such case...
In Jim Crow America, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Through laws and social norms, racism was legitimized and the practice operated as a way ...
Fresh off hearing oral arguments on President Obama’s health care overhaul, the Supreme Court will consider the legality of Arizona’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants. The law, p... (episode)
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Arizona v. United States, the case that will decide the constitutionality of Arizona's controversial immigration law, known as SB 1070. ...
Fresh off hearing oral arguments for and against President Obama’s health care overhaul, the Supreme Court is stepping back into the political spotlight. Today, the high court will co...
More than two years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused millions of barrels of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, federal authoriti...
Walmart’s bribery scandal may be rocking the halls of the Bentonville-based retailer, but what about the streets of Bentonville itself? The Takeaway finds out what local people think ...
Five Republican primaries, no real surprises: Mitt Romney sweeps the night and is now looking ahead to the general election. Anna Sale, reporter for our co-producer WNYC's politics we...
Today the Supreme Court will consider whether Arizona’s approach to illegal immigration clashes with federal law. If they decide it does, what else will states be able do to address t...
The United States has long been a car culture. But with fewer young people buying cars than ever, an American automobile industry in decline, and rising fuel prices, this culture is f...
New evidence in a judicial inquiry into News Corporation suggests that a senior minister in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government secretly helped Rupert Murdoch expand his global ...
Many of us spend hours with our smartphones and computers, texting and emailing. We peruse social networking sites, updating our followers several times a day on our moods and thought...
Walmart has issued a press release in response to allegations that they bribed Mexican officials. (article)
Were it not for the subway, New York as it is today would not exist. At a crucial time in the city's history, the engineers of this ingenious subterranean railroad cleared the streets... (article)
The fact is that income inequality is real; it’s been rising for more than twenty-five years. —President George W. Bush, January 2007 During the past thirty-three years the diffe... (article)
Eyewitness videos of U.S. border patrol agents beating, tasering, and stripping an undocumented immigrant have raised questions about border abuses — and deaths — in recent years. Eac... (episode)
Each year, more than 25,000 undocumented immigrants are apprehended as they attempt to cross the border from Mexico to the United States. In most cases, we hear very few details about...
In a recent essay for The Wall Street Journal, former Transportation Security Administration administrator Kip Hawley said the current airport security system in broken, and he offers...
Wal-Mart stock fell nearly five percent to $59.42 on Monday after The New York Times reported that the company tried to cover up evidence of widespread bribery in its Mexican operatio...
The severity of income inequality in the United States may have been relatively little known before making national headlines this past year, whether through the protests of Occupy Wa...
During the GOP Primaries, likely nominee Mitt Romney preached an immigration policy of "self-deportation". It just so happens that in the wake of the passage of SB 1070, Arizona's con...
Conservative polling and advocacy group Resurgent Republic recently sponsored a series of focus groups with Hispanic voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Las Vegas, Nevada. The group...
John F. Kennedy led the nation for just shy of three years, but in that short time, a series of Cold War crises embroiled the JFK Administration into what nearly became an armed confl...