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Ron Paul's other convention (episode)
Armed with devoted grassroots support, Representative Ron Paul, R-Texas, launched a dynamic conservative movement along with his 2008 presidential bid. He lost the GOP nomination, but...
It's been two years since Raul Castro took the reins of power in Cuba from his ailing brother Fidel. In that time, Raul has instituted a number of startling economic reforms, which Wa...
Last week, 6,800 people gathered in Chicago for UNITY, a conference held every four years for journalists of color. It's the largest reoccurring journalism convention in the nation. B...
The downturn in the economy is changing the music business. New bands can't afford to tour, and the ones that do spend more on gas than they do on hotel rooms. The Takeaway's residen...
It’s a battle over hearts and minds. And oil. Bush urged Congress to vote to on allowing oil drilling off American coastal waters, prompting spars over what’s causing fuel prices to ...
With the trial of Osama bin Laden drive Salim Hamdan underway in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, writer Jonathan Mahler compares the proceedings those in Nuremberg after World War II. Nurember...
At a time when the job market is stalling, fuel and food prices are soaring and Americans are reeling from home foreclosures, could homelessness rates really be dropping? The U.S. Dep...
You watch reality TV shows, but what if you thought your whole life was one? Psychiatrist Joel Gold say he's begun treating a set of new symptoms, "The Truman Show delusion," in which...
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Alaska Senator Ted Stevens indicted in corruption inquiry (episode)
Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted on seven counts of making false statements. The 84-year-old Alaska Republican and former chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee is accused ...
At the end of the year, the mandate which allows the United States to operate in Iraq under international law runs out. Issues of Iraqi sovereignty and oil-wealth distribution will b...
In Florida, voters may be scratching their heads trying to figure out which political candidate is the new guy, and which one’s in office now. The Takeaway talks with political consul...
When we feel hungry, our bodies actually get a boost from a hunger hormone called ghrelin. New research in mice suggests that ghrelin's primary purpose is actually stress relief. Hunger is a side-effect.
As the presidential candidates work to court the growing Hispanic population, the National Latino Congreso, a minority activism group, is registering Hispanic voters like never before...
Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, indicted on seven counts of making false statements by a federal grand jury Tuesday, has represented Alaska for 40 years.
The Hamdan trial continues in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yesterday, prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, unveiled a graphic video of the Sept. 11, 2001, te...
A report released Monday reveals the bold and illegal influence of politics in hiring practices at the Department of Justice. Justice's internal watchdog group charges that senior aid...
Controversial affirmative-action ballot initiatives in three states — Nebraska, Colorado and Arizona — are making news for the presidential candidates. Arizona senator and presidenti...
The International Olympic Committee has overturned an earlier decision banning Iraq from this year's Olympics. The latest move came after last-minute talks during which Iraq promised ...
A year ago this Friday, Minnesota's I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed. Now a report released by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says near...
Iraq explodes into violence (episode)
Yesterday, Iraq saw one of its bloodiest days of the year. The city of Kirkuk exploded into a cauldron of ethnic violence. Separate suicide bombings shook Baghdad. All told, at least 61 people were killed.
Last week, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe shook hands with his rival, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangarai. Hopes a deal would end deadly harassment, allegedly sponsored by Mugabe'...
Trouble viewing this video? Check out the YouTube version (click "watch in high quality" for best quality). President George Bush and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ...
It’s been a year and a half since Amy Winehouse caught the ears of American listeners. Now, there’s a new crop of young singer-songwriter-types tapping the well of old- and new-schoo...
It's the 50th anniversary of a great proxy battle fought in outer space. In 1958, President Eisenhower created NASA so the United States could compete with the USSR in space technolo...
Today, at the Oskhosh Air Show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a very new tool for the mankind will be demonstrated: A consumer-grade jet pack. Yes, for just about $100,000 dollars, you can ta...
Yet another search engine, Cuil (Gaelic for "knowledge"), is taking aim at Google. In true Freudian fashion, the upstart is the brainchild of former Google engineers who claim that C...
An outgoing president leaves a successor many things… Seat 1A on Air Force One… keys to the White House… the launch codes. This year, President Bush will leave something else: a recor...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the legislation that launched NASA and, subsequently, the human race into the great beyond. But have we really pushed our boundaries as far as spac...
Civics class may teach you that voters weigh the issues and choose the candidate who matches their positions, but several studies suggest that voters are not rational. They are <i>rationalizers</i>.
Texting while driving is dangerous. That's clear. But it turns out that texting while walking comes with its own risks. More and more pedestrians are turning up in emergency rooms wi...
The best players in the country are at the National SCRABBLE Championship in Orlando, Florida, this week as the game celebrates its 60th birthday.
Brett Favre is Green Bay. Plain and simple. The Super Bowl-winning, three-time MVP quarterback is worshipped in the home of the Packers — even following an official retirement in Marc...
Five years after it was the feel-good sports-lit hit of the summer of ‘03, Michael Lewis's "Moneyball" is back in the news again. The story goes like this: The plucky, cash-strapped a... (article)
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)
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
Since the Cold War, some walls have come down, but some walls have come up too (episode)
An energy bill that Democrats hoped would lower gas prices was killed by House Republicans yesterday. The bill would have tapped into 70 million barrels of oil the government has sto...
This year marks the Los Angeles Dodgers' 50th anniversary in the City of Angels. The architect of the team's move from Brooklyn, Walter O’Malley, will be inducted, posthumously, into...
John Fox is the most wanted person at the FBI this week. Not because he's a criminal, but because July 26, 2008, is the 100th anniversary of the FBI and he's the Bureau's only histor...
President Bush summed up America's recent economic woes this week with four cool words: "Wall Street got drunk." The Takeaway asked you for more catchy crisis slogans.
The Embassy of the United States in Baghdad announced Thursday it will expand its visa-granting program. The program aims to help Iraqi employees of the American government obtain vi...
The Blogging While Brown conference is on until Sunday, where, for the first time, bloggers of color from around the world have united in Atlanta to discuss their influence on the media and elections.
China offers hush money to grieving quake parents (episode)
Parents of students killed when schools collapsed in May's southwest Chinese earthquake say local officials have offered them payments to keep quiet about shoddily constructed schools.
The Hamdan trial continues in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yesterday, U.S. Military prosecutors played an interrogation video of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan in which he denie...
In 30 years, as Baby Boomers retire, there will be as many people over 80 as there are under 5. And there's another disturbing trend: The number of students entering geriatric medicin...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks in the heart of downtown Berlin, the city that was once the symbol of the Cold War divide. The Takeaway talks to Berliner Bjoern ...
With Barack Obama abroad you’d think that would mean more media attention at home for John McCain. But that’s not how things have worked out. What does exactly does John McCain have ...
American presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton all addressed Berliners during dramatic moments of struggle and change. Now, a presumptive presidential nominee is using Berlin as a ...
Today in Berlin, Barack Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier. He's also holding the only major public event of his trip at the Vict...
Thanks to advances in medicine we are living longer than ever, but society has been slow to adapt to this extended and unprecedented lifespan. When writer Jane Gross found herself hav...
Starbucks seem to be everywhere, but for some communities, getting one means your town has "made it." That’s why, when the company announced the closing 5 percent of its stores across...
Ironman and Batman. Both are summer box-office heroes but neither is a woman. With the arrival of The X-Files’ Special Agent Dana Scully to the big screen Friday, that's set to change...
American presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton all addressed Berliners during dramatic moments of struggle and change. Now, a presumptive presidential nominee is using Berlin as a ...
In first Guantanamo trial, the two sides paint two portraits of Salim Hamdan (episode)
The first American war crimes tribunal since World War II is taking place in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On trial is Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Defense lawyers say the p...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scheduled to take up a proposed bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s a bill that has President Bush and congressional Democrats seeing eye-to-eye.
Since 2001, when a federal funding freeze crippled research into the use of human embryonic stem cells to treat a host of congenital and degenerative conditions, molecular biologists ...
The future Donald Trumps of the world will soon need the help of a palm reader to ascend the corporate ladder. In an effort to finger cheats, aspiring CEOs will be screened by a high-...
As credit card companies continue to descend upon college campuses, Congress is threatening to make it more difficult for students to qualify for credit. But is Congress protecting s...
Jason Burnett, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, told the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee that the White House pressured the EPA in 2007 to deny clima...
The 500th issue of The Uncanny X-Men goes on sale this week, 45 years after Stan Lee and Jack Kirby debuted the mutants Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman.
A 21-patient study has shown that the drug abiraterone can stop the testosterone that feeds prostate cancer. A larger international clinical trial is underway to test the drug before...